Published February 2005 Remember the Good Old Days? Many of you do, and most will remember that many farms had at least a few guinea fowl or guinea hens. My own grandmother always kept a dozen or so around, and the dark, grey mottled, or almost white birds with their ridiculous little blue and red […]
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Published February 2005 The Pennsylvania groundhog often predicts weeks and weeks more of winter. More ice, more snow, more bitter cold, it’s enough to depress almost anybody. So, at that point you have two choices. One, spend the next weeks holed up in front of a fire with a good book when you’re not working, or two, […]
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Published February 2005 Do you have a fence that looks dull and drab each summer? A large open area that could stand a trellis and something bright climbing up its sides? If the answer to either is “Yes”, then you might consider growing some sweet peas this spring. Sweet peas are unique among flowers in […]
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Published February 2005 Ice fishing has been a tough proposition on Lake Erie this winter. Ice was slow in coming, though there were 8 to 10 inches finally last weekend, and water under the ice was muddy, thanks to floods that swelled tributaries and pumped millions of gallons of silt filled water into the lake. […]
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Published February 2005 Every year it happens. Like the inexorable ticking of a clock, the days grow longer, two minutes by two minutes. And as they do, Lake Erie walleye eggs and milt begin to mature and hormones trigger off behavior patterns that have changed little over thousands of years. The fish begin staging south […]
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Published January 2005 Seems like every bass fisherman has his or her own personal favorite fishing lures, and most use them through thick and thin. Too often, it’s thin. I know some anglers who stick strictly to pig and jig combinations and put a plastic worm on the other rod. Both are good offerings, but […]
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The National Garden Bureau celebrated 2005 as the Year Of The Melon, and for good reason. Even in the 16th century one French monk waxed rhapsodic about Charantais melons saying “O fleur de tous les fruits. O ravissant melon.” (Oh, flower of all the fruits. Oh, ravishing melon!) And five centuries later, there is still […]
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