June 12, 2009
Good morning from Collegeville,
The rain came last weekend and now the sun is out and it is warming up. June is a wonderful month to be living in Central Minnesota. I hope that you can get out and enjoy the weekend.
The annual trip to Woody’s Fairly Reliable Resort on Rainy Lake is next week. Sometime in the nineties, my youngest brother Craig was invited by his father-in-law, Jim, to go along on a fly-in fishing trip to Trout Lake in Canada. Over time, my other brothers, who were into fishing, were invited to go along. In 2003 brother Bill offered to pay the way for my son Erik, so I decided to go fishing too. I have never been much of a fisherman, but I always enjoyed fishing with Erik. I am the oldest of five Osberg brothers and it was a wonderful bonding time. The next year we went to brother Brian’s cabin instead. Erik was working as a weekend sportscaster on Channel 10/13 in Duluth and he did a story on fishing with Woody for his TV show. He suggested that we try Woody’s instead of the fly-in in 2005. We had a great time and the greatest part is that Woody has a wonderful pub filled with memorabilia of his hockey days. In 2018 Craig’s son Grayson will be able to come along and in 2021 my grandson William Harley Osberg will join the gang. Brother Bill will have to clean up his act a little bit with a 12 year old boy in the group. Check it out at www.fairlyreliable.com It is worth the drive just to meet Woody.
The show this week is a broadcast of a live show that happens tonight at Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Special guests include the Australian alt-country duo Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Chicago harmonica legend Howard Levy, acclaimed opera soprano Angela Brown and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Enjoy the show.
There will be no note next Friday since I will be in our boat on Rainy Lake.
“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for”. Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice
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