Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! The extreme cold here in Germany seems to be born down. It has been snowing since early morning, very small snowflakes, because it’s still very, very cold. But the sky is…

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The ice fishing contest scheduled for Saturday on Canadohta Lake has been postponed until Feb. 18. VanTassel’s Timberland Bait’s annual tournament is scheduled to award as much as $500 to anglers who catch the longest fish in a classification. Weather permitting, the rescheduled contest will run from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. A tournament scheduled [...]

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Thinking back to early October on Presque Isle when the foliage was brilliant and just beginning to drift to the floor of the woods and trails of the park, it is difficult to remember the exact day I first noticed that many of the leaves were encrusted…

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        Happily for me, Friday the 13th turned out to be a wonderful day for a short visit to Horseshoe Pond.  Sometime about 10 A.M., I left the house for Presque Isle.  I quickly become conscious that it was turning out to be a day of penetr…

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Rain! I love rain, at least when I can stay inside. I love the noise of falling water. It’s so comforting, so relaxing. Rain means life for all beings on earth. I chose this photo for my photo challenge today…

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            I was at a dinner last week when a friend and I were talking about the lack of winter weather so far in December and January.   In fact, he was telling me about how just that afternoon, he had taken his canoe and put in at the …

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My sky looks like this today: But the clouds became already much more dark. I’m nod sad about this weather we have till the end of November, just the opposite. After 4 very hard and cold winters with incredible amounts…

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            This is a unique time of year.  A time when most of Erie County has been covered with snow at least once, yet, until now, Presque Isle is still wearing only its late autumn browns and grays.  It is Sunday December 17 and just 8…

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I’m always afraid of winter. And it’s getting worse, because the last 4 winters were extremely cold in Northern Germany. I hate the cold, I hate the darkness, I hate paying a lot of money for heating, I hate getting…

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            The sun is bright in the morning sky and the temperature a pleasant and playful 55 degrees.  Autumn is here, and I am stuck in the office when I can hear Presque Isle calling.  The markets are down 327 points, and I know that i…

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I have only myself to blame for yesterday’s snowstorm. I grew up with Nor’easters, a new term for many in other parts of the country where they don’t have them. A Nor’easter is a storm that travels to the northeast from the south and hits the Atlantic coastal states primarily. Yours truly happened to be in [...]

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Five things I’m loving right now while the leaves change and the temperatures drop…1) Electric Blanket. I finally put on my bed’s electric blanket last weekend. Ooo. It’s so nice! Actually, it’s a pretty cheap quality and it’s for a twin be…

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Five things I love that start with the letter C.1) Cheesecake. I don’t really like cake or cupcakes, but damn I love cheesecake. I know. I know. How can I not like cake? It’s too sweet and the sponginess doesn’t thrill me. I guess it’s not that I don’t…

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It’s fall, so I am walking as much as possible on the trails of Presque Isle.  This IS the fun time of the year for me. For me, Presque Isle walks this time of year should be slow and done with the idea of enjoying nature’s world that is all aroun…

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After looking at the agenda of the Presque Isle Advisory Committee (It was sand, sand and more sand) I thought a walk on the park might be a better way to spend a quiet Thursday afternoon away from my office.  I was right.  The sun was out. It was wa…

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Ray Petelin is my home boy. He’ll be missed here in Erie.

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One of the more dramatic sights in the night sky – and inspiration for poets, artists and lovers – full moons captivate us like nothing else.  Most of us are impressed with the beauty of a full moon shining down from the darkened sky; however, did…

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Stormy Weather

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A fair amount of people find ErieBlogs.com each month by using search engines. As you may have seen this weekend, we get all kinds of funny and strange search terms that lead people to our site. In looking over our search terms for the last year, one person kept coming up a few hundred times [...]

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  It’s a pleasure to wake up to 55 degree temperatures on a December day in Erie. We might hit 60 today. Got to love the effects of El Nino. Looks like the only white we’ll see on Christmas is the mashed potatoes on our plates. Photo by ron richardson on a beautiful card created [...]

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