• Even though winter hasn't been as intense as they sometimes are, I begin to expect Spring to start poking it's head through the curtains any time now.  I am getting so anxious to break out a lighter jacket and see some bare ground and start to watch as things magically come to life once again.  I can appreciate the restful look of the leaf less trees in the winter and I do enjoy the snow when it sparkles and those mornings when everything appears to be frosted with glitter but then comes the time for all of those things to come to an end.  Let's hope that particular end is somewhat near!  This past weekend was definitely not that time. 
• Lorrie and Carla Sanderson and Len and Liz Sanderson were able to get their recently purchased lodge officially broken in over the weekend.  A group of twenty adults and twenty five kids stayed at the Hidden Hill Lodge on Friday evening, March 8th.  Lodgers were from Brookings, Madison and Milbank.  The kids were