Outdoors: On being Southern

Does anyone remember the old Motel 6 commercials with Tom Bodett? His famous tagline was, “We’ll leave the light on for ya!” Now he was a Yankee, but a country Yankee, apparently. That’s one of the sayings I remember my grandparents and the older people of my childhood saying often.

Outdoors: Crappie time on the lake

I’ll be honest. When I started writing I didn’t crappie fish much and I truly didn’t have much interest in it. However, since then, I’ve spent a lot of time with guys like Richard Malcom, Maurice Van Hall, Chop Stover, and a few others that really helped me see the light.

Outdoors: Deep thoughts on deep woods

Have you ever heard or seen something long before daylight on the way to your deer stand? And I’m not talking about these sissy stands about 20 yards off the road with feeders, air conditioning and comfy chairs.