JACKSON COUNTY, Wis. – Early-morning fog hung low in the valley as I stepped out the back door for an autumn-morning walk along Claire Road.
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Have you ever heard a sermon that changed your life? Some sermons I have heard in church or read online have stuck with me and have been transforming through time. They have usually included a personal witness like this one.
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Wisconsin’s state wildlife animal is the white-tailed deer. It’s deer season in the broadest sense now through November. Most Wisconsin residents think about the cervid when gun-deer season is open around Thanksgiving, when fawns are born in May and when we see deer in vehicle headlights.
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Fall is in full swing, with trees changing colors. But for me there is another annual event that’s a stark reminder winter is on the way – the first fall frost.
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The phone rang at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 29, 2006, in our farmhouse in Richland County, Wisconsin. It was tragic news.
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Enthusiasm for deer and turkey hunting places hunters in new habitats and finds some looking down from above in an open-grown white oak tree. They are archers and cross-bowers probably hunting deer, but also maybe Wisconsin’s wild turkeys.
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My colleague Pastor Sun-Joong Kim of Janesville, Wisconsin, shared a reflection on seeing clearly that has resonated with me on several levels. Not seeing clearly is something I know about.
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Acorns and hickory nuts are coming into our autumn lives, notice it or not. Don Martin at Martin’s Sporting Goods in Monroe, Wisconsin, recalled being in a tree stand when something kept hitting from above.
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Farewell summer. I’d like to say I knew you well, but your time this year seemed far too short.
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It’s not easy to leave this world. There are so many things that call us back – the people we love, our unfinished work, unfulfilled dreams, a comfortable old chair, a house filled with memories or the smell of fresh-baked bread. What could heaven offer that is better?
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The list of autumn-season opportunities is irresistible – embracing calling turkeys, listening for ruffed-grouse flushes, detecting walking deer, taking autumn excursions, hearing a heavy, husked black walnut thump on the pickup’s roof and many more. The excuses to forgo early seasons are am…
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Upon returning home in May 1955 from his service in the U.S. Army, my dad, Tom Pfaff, fulfilled one of his dreams – buying a car. I found a picture of him with his first car, with an interesting caption on the back.
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Do you talk to your loved ones in heaven? Have you ever asked them to do something for you?
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We have copious opportunities to enjoy autumn, but we have fewer and fewer daylight hours outdoors to enjoy the changes. Plants and animals are reacting to shorter days.
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I’d never considered myself part of the trendsetter crowd, but circumstance and timing put my brother Kevin and I into that mix more than 50 years ago when we started a beer-can collection.