River Road Ramblings

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

Friday, July 21, 2023

›
The Reverend Jerry  (Feb 18, 2011)  My next door neighbor at the state park in central Louisiana had a fire burning and was visiting with an...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

›
   2020 was a year of potatoes here on the Farm.  With the Covid-19 pandemic threatening the food supplies this spring, we decided to garden...
Monday, September 14, 2020

›
  Picked the popcorn yesterday and have it out to dry now.  I had planned to do this much later, but a deer got in that garden and went down...
Thursday, September 3, 2020

How Do You Make 1700 Apple Pies?

›
  How do you make 1700 Apple Pies? The answer, according to the Cushing Lutheran Apple Pie Crew, is to make 170 pies on 10 different days in...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Cletrac AG-6 Carburetor Problems

›
My Farm renter, Chuck, is helping me to get the 1947 Cletrac AG-6 crawler going again.  Three years ago, he got the engine running after it ...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

2020 Maple Syrup Season was Excellent!

›
I have a Facebook page that I use to post info and photos about each year's maple syrup season.  It is called Backyard Maple Syruping.  ...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Scouts Come to Garner State Park for the Freezerie Campout

›
Friday night through Sunday morning our quiet campsite loop in Garner State Park was delightfully noisy as Cub Scout Pack xxx from San Ant...
Friday, January 31, 2020

January in Utopia

›
The first week of our TX vacation has passed here in Garner State Park, TX.   We have done some sight seeing, some reading, me some work o...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Texas Heats Up

›
80F here in Garner State Park, SW Texas on Jan 26th, 2020.   Too warm to fast and we are going into heat stroke danger. Texas Get-Away  ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

2020 Wisconsin to Texas

›
It is 6 am, January 24, 2020 and I have already been up half hour here at Garner State Park in SW Texas.   We got into the park...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.