2008/12/03–2009 Catahoula Calendar

The 2009 Catahoula Calendar is now ready for sale. A portion of the proceeds from each calendar goes to benefit Catahoula Rescue. This year’s theme is The Versatile Catahoula. The cover was recently unveiled, and you may recognize one of the faces there–Beau. He’s wearing his backpack. He has been in the Catahoula calendar every…

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2008/09/29– J Cross’ Currahee

Last night I was visited by some friends (Carlye and Craig from Cross Check Catahoulas). They left a new little friend at my house, a littermate to their own little girl “J Cross’ Ammunition”. J Cross’ Currahee–a.k.a. “Ranger”.

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2008/09/24– Across Indiana

The PBS Program “Across Indiana” (produced by WFYI, Indianapolis) came out at the end of August to shoot some footage of the park where I work and live (well, the Park end of it. the other end, Brookville Lake, is 16,000 acres with 5,000 of that in water). We spent 8 hours out on the…

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2008/09/18– Let There Be Light!

Sunday night SE Indiana/SW Ohio was rocked by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. I lost power from 2:15 Sunday until 10:30 last night (I celebrated Beau’s 8th “Homecoming Day” in the dark with him on the 16th). I was all right since I have enough food on hand to survive a zombie uprising, plus I…

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2008/08/26– Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall

One of the projects I’m currently involved with–and why this site hasn’t had much by way of updates this season–is hosting the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall as it visits Whitewater Memorial State Park in September. This is a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.

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2007/12/20– The Torontoist

Today I found an article in The Torontoist about snowshoeing–much more popular there than here in Southeast Indiana where we’ve lost most of this year’s snow (40 degrees for Christmas, baby!). They linked here for the pattern about making your own wooden pack (swiss-army) snowshoes. Some of my readers may remember when I started UberPest.com…

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