Sunday, July 20, 2025. I walked the grounds for one more walk. My heart was a little heavy. Above, a redpoll. To the right, a robin. Above, a chipping sparrow. To the right, an arctic loon. I never could get close enough to get a good photo of an arctic loon. At breakfast, I was […]
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July 20, 2025. Saturday, July 19, 2025. The day started out with indecisive skies–a mix of clouds with some hazy blue. I had walked the grounds near the lodge many times at this point but saw something new every time. To the right, a common merganser, which we see in northern Michigan. To the left,
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Friday, July 18, 2025. The day starts with fog on the water. Just patches here and there. But large patches that obscure land at times. It’s quite strange to be on a giant lake and have no sense of direction because of fog. Thankfully, Aidan has a sense of direction, using his electronics. When there
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Thursday, July 17, 2025. I am still sleepy after two long days, and it seems exceptionally early in the morning as I drag myself down to the lobby. There, I see that a group of guys are already plotting and sharing fishing secrets. I always find it interesting when guys who are all really hoping
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025. It’s 9 a.m. and we’re all up after less than six hours of sleep. Nature had been calling me out of bed for hours (which I ignored and tossed around as if that was a magical way to stop it). Once outside, the battle against mosquitos trying to bite my butt
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Thursday, July 15, 2025. The first part of our ride is really choppy, as shown in this video. One reason we booked a return trip to Plummer’s Arctic Trophy Lodge was because the guide we had last year, Manny, said we’d be able to go to a cabin that people seldom use, which is near
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Monday, July 14, 2025. As with other mornings, I start mine with a walk-around. I see an arctic tern, above, at the top of a tree. To the right, a shite-crowned sparrow with an insect in its mouth for its young. I see white-crowned sparrows in Michigan, but not arctic terns. I made a brief
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Sunday, July 13, 2025. We eat our breakfast of o.j. and croissants and it will turn out it’s good we heeded Daryl’s advice, because we would not eat again until noon. We take the few bites we couldn’t eat and leave them outside for a one-legged seagull I had befriended the day before. Daryl meets
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Thursday, July 10, 2025. We are up at 7 a.m. to finish packing, run to Costco to get gas, then to the bank for more cash, to Nana-N-Paws to drop off dogs, back to Costco to get carrots and broccoli for our two groundhog pals, then home to clean so the house is nice when
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May 22, 2024. I started my morning running about doing extra morning chores because Mark (right in the photo), and his friend, Jack (left in the photo) had gone up north to our cabin. They are shown to the right in Canada from a fishing trip we went on together, along with my stepson, Arthur,
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