April 2022

As we’ve been working our way through the transition to new systems, and a new layout, we’ve definitely had some learning by experience moments. We’ve been working out all of the kinks, and brainstorming for the future with the capabilities we now have.

Man vs Golf You know how sometimes you go to visit your parents but you don’t want to stay with them because, you know, they’re your parents? So you decide to stay nearby, but not that nearby because, well, they’re your parents? But it’s also spring break for the kiddos so you dish out a little more scratch than usual and stay not just at a hotel but a resort with a full-on water park, with lots of pools and water slides galore? And you know how the first few days are good, clean family fun, swimming during the days, seeing the folks in the evening but then you learn that the resort offers something else and that something else is… golf? And you know how halfway through your stay, the PGA walks in like they own the joint? I hate it when that happens. One minute, parking is first come first serve, the next it’s: Are you with the Open? Oh, you’re not with the Open.

Migration on the Move For the past month or so hundreds of thousands of birds have been streaming up from Central and South America, heading north along major flyway routes across the United States. Minnesota sits along the eastern edge of the Central Flyway and the western sweep of the Mississippi Flyway, becoming both the fly-over zone and summer residences for a large portion of those birds: waterfowl from the east, songbirds/ upland birds from the west, with a mixes from both sides.