Month: August 2021

I have been a boater on Lake Erie most of my adult life. While some people remember the cars they have owned, I remember the four boats I have owned and used with my family. While all of my boats have been different in such things as the size of hull, beam, and engine horsepower,…

In the backyard of our lake house stands a magnificent, pignut hickory tree. No one knows for sure why the tree is called a pignut hickory other than pig farmers once supposedly used the nuts produced as rooting material for their pigs. But, more about pig nuts in a minute. Regardless of its name, the…