Brent Olson
Columnist at Freelance
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6 days ago |
agupdate.com | Brent Olson
I admit, this is a lot of bother for a fresh fish. We have a half-acre pond on our farm, dating back to when I was a hog farmer. You don’t want to know what it was used for, just that now, 30 years later, it’s full of fresh clean water. I’ve been toying with the idea of dumping some bluegills in it so I have something to entertain me in my declining years. I understand that Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, many of which are full of fish.
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2 weeks ago |
agupdate.com | Brent Olson
It must be spring. The little white things are blooming. Every year they’re the first blossoms I see and every year I ask my wife what they’re called, She tells me, and thirty seconds later I forget. It’s the same thing with the bird feeder. We have big birds with red heads, little birds with a tiny red cap, yellow birds and quite a few brown birds of varying sizes. I am reasonably confident that with time and effort I could learn all their names. Well, their species names.
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1 month ago |
agupdate.com | Brent Olson
We had a big anniversary coming up, so we celebrated by doing one of things we love to do, which is just the two of us in a car, seeing something we've never seen before. We flew into Las Vegas on a clear evening – we could see the lights from 30 miles away. We got our rental car and took a drive down the Las Vegas Strip, then turned around and headed out of town.
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1 month ago |
agupdate.com | Brent Olson
There are some things I wish I could share. Last week, after two days of a hard wind out of the north left a large open patch of water on Olson Lake, we had about a bazillion waterfowl hanging out. Ducks, snow geese, Canada geese and a few swans, all intermingled and all added their own distinctive noises. Every now and then a threat of some sort would be detected and the whole enormous flock would take off and circle around the open water a few times before landing again.
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1 month ago |
agupdate.com | Brent Olson
Who was heading up the stairs at 6:45 a.m. after spending a half hour on the treadmill? This guy, baby!Since I quit being a county commissioner my calendar, for the first time since 1973, is just a blank sheet of paper. This is a little bit of a problem. I've always had a schedule. I raised livestock for a few decades, and if you've done that, there's no doubt that you know what you're going to be doing right away in the morning and just before you take your work boots off at night.
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