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Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on October 13, 2015 at 13:47

I'm partial to fall grouse hunting, the fall run into the river for walleye, harvesting my garden--but not the canning and the fall crisp air.

Comment by John Bamford on October 13, 2015 at 13:00

Oh yes the boat in the pic is called Sweden and was first registered in 1926 . It has a wooden hull which is quite rare these days , they are mostly steel now . It doesn't show on the pic but you can see all the bits of wood, elm I think, that have been fitted in over the years . These things are just historic relics these days mainly of interest to people with beards or bald men like me .

Comment by John Bamford on October 13, 2015 at 12:48

At this time of the year I love to have a walk by the canal and have lunch in a pub at the end , 

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on October 13, 2015 at 10:35

I would have to say that my favorite fall outdoor activity is to go deer hunting.

Comment by Jan Carter on October 13, 2015 at 9:52

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE " I LOVE FALL"  OUTDOOR ACTIVITY?

 Take a scenic drive?

Go Pumpkin picking?

Host a Bonfire?

Go Camping?

Comment by Jan Carter on October 10, 2015 at 20:51

I have watching a couple of our members checking out tents this month.  Do you have a favorite or one you have been looking at to buy??

Comment by Jan Carter on October 7, 2015 at 20:18

The full mammoth story is here

Comment by Jan Carter on October 7, 2015 at 20:16

Michigan Farmer Digs Up Woolly Mammoth Bones in Field

OCTOBER 7, 2015 By Christopher Klein

The mammoth skull and tusks are hoisted from the excavation pit. (Credit: Daryl Marshke/University of Michigan)

A Michigan farmer reaped a startling harvest last week when he unearthed the partial skeleton of a prehistoric mammoth in his wheat field that could provide new evidence of human habitation.

Last Monday, farmer James Bristle and his neighbor were digging a trench to install a drainage pipe in his wheat field on the outskirts of Chelsea, Michigan, when their backhoe suddenly struck something hard about eight feet underground. At first, the pair thought they had hit a buried piece of wood, perhaps a fence post, but they soon realized they had uncovered something neither had ever seen before—an enormous three-foot-long bone.

“We didn’t know what it was, but we knew it was certainly a lot bigger than a cow bone,” Bristle said. Believing the strange object may have been a dinosaur bone, the farmer contacted the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, located just 10 miles away from his field.

Curious locals gathered throughout the day as news of the discovery spread. By sunset, without a break to eat or drink, the crew had excavated approximately 20 percent of the bones of the prehistoric elephant-like creature. Using zip lines attached to a backhoe, the paleontologists carefully hoisted the mammoth’s gigantic skull and tusks and placed it on a flatbed trailer along with the skeleton’s vertebrae, ribs, pelvis and shoulder blades before filling in the pit.

The mammoth’s remains still need to be dated, but Fisher said the bones are from an adult male that likely lived between 11,700 and 15,000 years ago and was in its 40s when it died. The paleontologist said the specimen was a Jeffersonian mammoth—a hybrid between a woolly mammoth and a Columbian mammoth named for founding father Thomas Jefferson, who had a keen interest in paleontology.

Fisher noted there was “excellent evidence of human activity” associated with the mammoth remains, and he theorizes that ancient humans carved the animal and submerged the carcass in a pond to preserve the meat for later use. “We think that humans were here and may have butchered and stashed the meat so that they could come back later for it,” he said. The evidence included three basketball-sized boulders found with the remains—which may have been used to weigh down the carcass—a stone flake resting next to one of the tusks that could have been used as a cutting tool and the positioning of the neck vertebrae in correct anatomical sequence as opposed to a random scattering that normally happens after a natural death.Bristle has agreed to donate the mammoth’s bones to the University of Michigan for further study. 

Comment by Jan Carter on September 11, 2015 at 14:10

LOL, actually I did JJ.  Something funny about winter clothes, they are a lot cheaper in 100 degree weather.  For the next 6 days we range between 68 and 78 and down to 46 some nights.  SEE, I need those 2 long sleeves!

Comment by J.J. Smith III on September 10, 2015 at 0:21

OK Jan. Where did you get winter clothes. I know y'all didn't pick them up in Florida.

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