By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter Over lunch at a local restaurant I heard a young man complaining to his pal about his relative state of boredom since arriving home on college break. I think I laughed out loud. Not wanting to come off as impolite or eavesdropping, I pretended I was ...
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter I confessed, from the beginning, that I could in no way adequately fill the big shoes left by George Block, the Observer-Reporter’s longtime outdoors writer. That was 53 installments ago. I like to think that I would have made George chuckle a few ...
I love winter. I love snow. I love hunting, fishing, scouting, skiing, woods walking, picking Christmas trees, birding, all in the cold. It makes me feel alive. Let me be emphatic: I do not like coaching baseball in the cold. I hear lots of folks complaining the minute the thermometer dips ...
As of late, I have been hit with a barrage of requests from friends asking the same question: What can I buy my hunter, fisherman, outdoorsman for Christmas? Lucky for them, and you, that I have given much thought to this query. Read on for sundry ideas for the outdoors-minded Christmas gift ...
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter I tried to get the whitetail’s general impressions on the first day of deer season controversy but he really didn’t seem interested in talking about it. It might have had something to do with the fact that he was deceased, but I felt obligated as a ...
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter newsroom@observer-reporter.com Early in June, begin by placing copies of the Sears and Roebuck “Wish Book Catalog” about the house in conspicuously ...
