Recall your childhood memories of wintertime. A fresh snowfall occurs overnight, and in the morning all the hills are clean pallets just waiting for you to take your sled down them. With each trip down the hill you carve out new paths in the fresh winter snow, creating routes that wind through the trees with [...]

I think I might be in trouble. I did something today at the Homes for Heroes office that might not be in line with office policy. At first it went unnoticed, I had done a pretty good job of covering it up. Then some office “do gooder” had to blurt out loud enough for my [...]

With the  start of a new year, and with a greener party now in  power, my thoughts have been on recycling and green topics.  I have never been much of a recycler I must admit.  I do use junk mail as fire starting material and I occasionally refill plastic water bottles with tap water.  Oh, [...]

The Minnesota River between Chaska and Henderson is an absolutely beautiful paddle! Trees line the banks on both sides of you, and it’s incredibly serene. There was no motorboats, or anyone else for that matter on this paddling trip. Although, there was plenty of wildlife and excellent fishing!
Along the way, I saw several deer, Turkey [...]