River Road Ramblings

Comments and photographs from an old local historian and backwoodsman about life in the St. Croix River Valley

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Crawfish'n

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We watched a farmer pickup his crawfish traps today. He says the cold weather has made the season slow with small mudbugs (crawdads, crayfi...

Day 8 Good Breakfast and RAIN

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Day 8: Raining The forecast was for rain all day and it was right. It rained through the day and the night too, sometimes hard. ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Day 7: Cops, Tires and Laundry

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Day 7 A New Tire; Cops Raid the Park and Clean Clothes . Last night, just before dark, a red pickup truck roared around the campsit...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Deer Hunting Story from the 1960s remembered in the 1980s

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The scene is at brother Everett’s deer hunting shack on “the sixty,” the rolling hills, woods and fields that formed the cow pasture until ...

Day 6: Rainy night, sunny quiet day

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Day 6: It was a quiet morning after an all night rain. I was awakened at about 1:00 AM to the crash of the empty ice chest being toppled f...

Day 5 Settling In and Ordering a Tire

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Having settled down in Chicot State Park (the locals pronounce it sheeeco—means tree stump), mid southern Louisiana, we started to get the c...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Days 3 and 4 Tire problems again

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Days 3 and 4 Tire Starts Leaking again! I’m writing this while waiting at a Bumper to Bumper auto parts and repair place in LA while the cr...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Branson MO

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Day 2: Princeton MO to Branson MO The tires were up; the roads wet, but not very slippery when we left the motel at Princeton M...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Trip South -- Re-Learning to Walk

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DAY 1: Margo and Russ’ Trip South by Auto and Popup Camper Feb 19, 2010 . Highlights: Snowstorm and flat tire Daily Goal: Pine ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

SCFHS Class of '65 Reunion 2000

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St Croix Falls Class of 65 Reunion July 1, 2000 Saturday afternoon at 2:00 pm the proud remnants of the SCF class of 65 gathered to recal...
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