Nick Pending

Some of the dams (many of?) were put in just as economic stimulus for the area (sort of like the CCC kept some people employed during...

Working at the Chicagoland Canoe Base in Chicago back in the day (early '70s for me), sitka spruce was used for the birch bark replica...

Haven't heard. We don't know the guy. My wife works at the local food bank and heard the story there. The standing joke at the time was...

A farmer near us had a cow killed by lightning in an evening thunderstorm (mostly dry) a couple nights ago. I haven't heard that there...

Glenn, feel free to move to jokes thread if you prefer it there, or if potential copyright bothers you (from a 1965 collection in a book...

Or an American Pronghorn an "antelope". Antelope are native to only the "old" world -- which happens to be the same age as the "new"...

Sigh. Lawyers these days! No true cedars are native to North America, but I happen to have several planted on my own property, so to...