Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

Saw my first goslings of the season a while ago, but saw the first goslings of the season with my camera a few days ago – both monumental events.  I love the evening bike rides I’ve been taking lately and am grateful for the nice weather of Spring to have finally arrived.

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Again, I am grateful my sister comes through on adventure: less traffic makes it much easier to ride side-by-side on the bike path great company, great conversation tons of cotton-tailed bunnies on the SW Bike Path the cover of darkness masking the ridiculousness of my outfit; making it seem that the black of my socks [...]

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I know how lucky am I to be able to decide to take a weekday and spend it at Devil’s Lake, instead of in my office.  Still, even after making the decision to do so on Friday, it was hard for me to unplug.  One last email check…one last facebook update…another tweet…okay, email…now flickr….should probably [...]

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Some people might shy away at the suggestion of taking out a metal canoe with untested cracks on a 50 degree March evening on Lake Monona, only weeks after all the ice melted into the lake.  Not my sister.  She thinks its a great idea and, in fact, will help me carry the canoe to [...]

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A game of frisbee in Yahara Place Park with my sister yesterday got muscles moving that have been atrophying for months.   We caught spring fever so bad that we even had a 50-yard dash sprinting contest.  The open water on Lake Monona attracted enough water fowl that when I was walking home at dusk, blocks [...]

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Chances are, if you live in Wisconsin, sometime over the last week you’ve heard one of the following: Can you believe all this rain? I’ve had enough of it! Damn Wisconsin weather. The devastation is beyond belief! We’ll lose millions in crop damage. Poor Lake Delton. We got water in the basement, but not as [...]

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