4/24/12 "AS THE TWIG IS BENT..."

CAN YOU CANOE?

TREE BOARD, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: GRANDON HARRIS, JANE EDWARDS, MARTHA LARSON, BETH COZZI, GENE BREVOLD, ART ODE, HOWARD PAAP

Tuesday, 7:45 AM.  50 degrees F, wind WNW, light with stronger gusts.  The sky is clear with some haze.  The humidity is 85% and the barometer still predicts rain but for now it is a gorgeous day, and I’ll gladly take the rain if I can get it.
     The City of Bayfield Tree Board had its first full scale meeting in several months, all members present and accounted for.  Besides helping to set City street and park tree policy and priorities, our main function is pruning young trees so that they have a strong and healthy start in life (Remember the Biblical admonition, “as the twig is bent, so grows the tree”).The later is all pleasant outdoor work in good company, and that is what makes being a member so enjoyable.
    Yesterday,s was a fine afternoon to take Buddy for a training run on the beach, where we saw this canoe a few hundred yards off the Sioux River.  A really experienced canoeist can try this on a really calm day, but a canoe is too unsteady to be trusted under most conditions anywhere on the Big Lake, and except in shallow water near shore during the summer months, hypothermia is a real threat if one is in the water for more than a few minutes.
    The White House spokesman said the other day regarding the Secret Service scandal: “An internal investigation [of the White House advance staff] does not seem necessary.”  To which I reply, that is usually when it is necessary.