MichaelMerry

Monday, June 6, 2022, Day 12 It rained on and off all night. I didn't manage to get out of my sleeping bag until late. The damp, cold...

Snowshoe day trip in cuyahoga valley national park with my wife, father in law and Abby just before a snow squall hit yesterday...

I love when we get enough snow for snowshoeing here, it's nice not having to travel to do it :D I've had a nice trench leaving the house...

Lake Champlain, sometimes called the Sixth Great Lake, is approaching its first full ice cover since 2019, and perhaps at the earliest...

Grew up on a NE Ohio farm. I’ve eaten many groundhogs. Better to stick with the young ones.

I'll agree that it's better than coon. I like to parboil young groundhogs and they taste a lot like rabbit to me. Best part is that...

I’m ok with six more weeks of winter. To answer your question. Stewed groundhog tasted like a beef chuck pot roast to me. Maybe that’s...

I skied in sunshine yesterday and ran in sunshine (and 5 degrees) this morning just south of downtown Cleveland!

We’ve been having sunny skies in Cleveland since Lake Erie largely froze and the lake effect stopped.

Panther tracks on my access road: Wild turkey tracks at the same location I know they were less than 24 hours old because I had...

My damaged knees, broken shoulders and collarbones, and cervical spine fusion following herniated discs prevent me from walking long...

Romance. Not the Harlequin type, I'm talking the idealistic what if only kinda thing. I suppose we'd almost call it historical...

I was in diapers when my dad and grandfather took me on my first overnight canoe trip. Growing up on the banks of the tuscarawas river...

unlike most here, I was almost born into a canoe, My mom was a nurse for a place that allowed staffers to take an up to 90 day leave...