Minnesota State Patrol Question: Is it legal for farmers to load hay on a state highway? Our neighbor bales several miles of state highway ditches. To load the round bales he drives down the highway with a pickup and bale wagon.
Beyond REason by Rob Perez Due to the overwhelming response (glad you liked it, Mom) to a recent column about nautical terminology, this is a kind of follow-up. Thus, I give you boat names.
Hope everyone’s first week of back to school has gone well and routines are being established that will help everyone be successful this year. Don’t forget that beginning tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 10, the library will be open from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fall programming begins next week. Tuesday afternoons we will put out a new LIBRATORY bag for elementary families to pick up and do together. We would love to have you register for a bag as it will make it much easier to plan quantities. Please stop by the library or call 218-283-8051 to register for a weekly activity bag. Thursday at 10:30 a.m is Storytime followed by early learning playtime. Storytime is about 30 minutes of stories, rhymes and more around a loose theme each week. We will start the Storytime year off with stories about the self followed the next week with stories about family. Storytime is aimed at the under 3 crowd but will work for any child first grade and under. Caregivers are encouraged to participate in Storytime as their youngsters will follow their lead. The library then puts out a variety of early learning toys that are focused on science, technology, engineering and math for little ones. Some of the toys encourage cooperative play and others are geared towards individual play, allowing children to play and learn at their own pace. The days are definitely getting shorter and while I hope we can have a beautiful, sunny fall I am enjoying some fall reading including a new book that is encouraging me to get out into the woods around me. “Forest Walking: discovering the trees and woodlands of North America” by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst teaches us how to decode nature’s signs and dive deeply into the ecosystem around us. I have also really enjoyed “52 Ways to Walk: the surprising science of walking for wellness and joy” by Annabel Streets. Between the two, I think I might be ready to explore “The Complete Guide to Winter Camping” by Kevin Callan or “Rock Climbing Minnesot
Some with our tracks that come quickly to mind include: Tellico, Penobscot, Cranberry, Cheat, Bull Pasture, Littlefork, Bigfork, Straight, Baptism, Temperance, St. Croix, Minam, Imnaha, Nehalem, John Day, Walla Walla, Grande Ronde, Boise, Payette, Selway, Lost, Lemhi, Owyhee, Snake, Salmon, Clearwater, Henry’s Fork, Blackfoot, Madison, Big Hole, Firehole, Yellowstone, Kenai, Yentna, Stikine, Babine, Tahltan, Big River, Mackenzie, Coppermine, Carcajou, San Juan and probably more now forgotten. Of course, there also are tributary forks and creeks for these rivers with more tracks and memories of outdoor smoke and fire adventure. Thank you PBS, for prompting this lifetime rambling remembrance.
Inexplicable Frank, Part 3 Frank and his son George lived eight miles south of Stratton, Ontario, and on the way to their homesteads there were miles of muskeg and moss or tamarack swamps from shoe-mouth to boottop deep. Frank penned in a letter to home that “we are back to nature all right,” other ruminations included that there isn’t a horse in here nor can one get one in here until it freezes up but some neighbors have oxen.
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Minnesota State Patrol Question: A friend recently told me that it’s illegal to honk your car horn in Minnesota (he showed me an internet article). I find this hard to believe.
Inexplicable Frank It takes some musing and gauzy imagination to come to a realization that where we live was once one of America’s last frontiers, yeah explorers and fur traders traveled our area centuries ago but it was not until the early twentieth century that certain parts of our area were kinda tamed by settlers and it’s still arguable that elements of it still remain. With the advent of the Nelson Act of 1889 the Chippewa ceded an area southward from the Rainy River towards the Red Lake Reservation but fifteen years went by before the Rivers South bank was opened to homesteading because of the time the federal bureaucracy took to complete examination and classification of the ceded lands.
@ Your Library By DIANE ADAMS Whew! Summer whizzed by so fast. Here we are at the beginning of September with the school year starting next week.
Lots of action at Big Bass Lake’s Idaho Avenue address these days, just North of Highway #2 at the Edge of the Wilderness. Daughter and spouse are making progress in building the home of their dreams on their portion of that 43-year historical family property.