If you're lucky enough to live next door to a sled hill, you might wake up early on a perfect February morning, lounge around in your jammies, have leftover birthday cake for breakfast, bundle up, head over to the hill, race your brother down, catch some air off a jump, make an angel in the [...]
Yesterday morning, I watched the news scroll across my screen and realized I was facing a snow emergency so severe it made me slightly late for work. The forecast for today, a high of 59 with showers, followed by 13 straight days of no precipitation, meant I needed to move quickly if I wanted to [...]
Those stately old Erb Park trees have witnessed a lot in their hundreds of years -- the design and construction of three swiming pools, the 1970s Dutch Elm plague, the historic wind shear storm of 2011 and more teen-aged mischief than they'll ever report. This past weekend, they watched and participated in the Wisconsin Arborist [...]