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Crappie in the Rain
Exploring Kansas Outdoors
By Steve Gilliland
Grandpa always said some of the best fishing can be when its raining. Its sometimes tough to test that theory...
Inverse Bucket List
Exploring Kansas Outdoors
By Steve Gilliland
Awhile back, one of the greeters at church whose daughter was getting married was telling me about the excursion to...
Nature’s Noises from Joe’s Front Porch
Exploring Kansas Outdoors
By Steve Gilliland
I’m sometimes bothered by sensory overload, like when the entire church congregation gathers in the church basement for a meal,...
Weather Proverbs: Of Rain Crows and Sundogs
A while back when our weather was so hot and dry, a friend told me she’d been hearing the call of a “rain crow”...
You just gotta’ Grow Enough for All of Them
To Hutchinson area basketball fans from my generation, the name Dick Gisel rings familiar. From the mid 1960’s until he retired in 1995, Dick...
Saving the Chickens at any Cost?
Several years ago on one early spring morning, Nolan Fisher, then manager of Kanopolis State Park and I slipped into a blind overlooking a...
Awesomely Possumly
Popular descriptive words and phrases come and go with generations. When I was a kid they were fairly mundane, like neat, cool or far-out....
Don’t Squish the Spiders
Remember the old Jim Stafford song that began with the line “I don’t like spiders and snakes….”? Well snakes don’t bother me at all; in...
Primitive Survival in Modern Times
I used to have a book that showed numerous ways Native Americans
accomplished tasks like trapping wolves and catching geese that were essential to
their survival....
Let the Show Begin
The shows on this stage have always been more than spectacular and tonight’s
performances even exceeded our expectations.
A bumbling pair of wild turkeys opened the...