Tag Archives: Nature

Spring Catfishing

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Ozark Hiker

If you’ve ever been a 16-yr-old boy or raised one, then you know these are interesting years. Squirrel is a great kid and, as fate would have it, is the answer to my mom’s warning that I will pay for … Continue reading →

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Ozark Howler

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Ozark Hiker

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. I’ve always felt most comfortable out in the wild green outdoors. Even as a child roaming alone through the softwood lowlands of southeast Arkansas … Continue reading →

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Broke toe on the Buffalo

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Ozark Hiker

It started about three years ago. One of the summers where I get together with my parents and my sister, her kids and mine, our long-suffering spouses.  The yearly family week at Lake Chicot.  My nephew must’ve been about fourteen, … Continue reading →

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Squirrel on Mt. Magazine (part 3)

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Ozark Hiker

<– part 2 Woke up on Sunday morning around six to the sound of blackbirds.  I heard the nylon shushing sound of Squirrel shuffling awake.  He said something derogatory about birds and I unzipped the hammock. While he was sitting … Continue reading →

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Squirrel on Mt. Magazine (part 2)

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Ozark Hiker

<– (part 1) Easing into the overflow primitive campsites on Saturday afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice the motley array taking up the far south end of the area.  A huge transport van hauling a trailer.  An old Ranger with … Continue reading →

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Squirrel on Mt. Magazine (part 1)

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Ozark Hiker

Thursday, driving Squirrel to school, he laid his criteria down upon me.   When I pitched the initial idea of a daddy-date, I really was thinking I’d be on the hook for some animatronic pizza and maybe seeing a new Marvel … Continue reading →

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Paternal Epiphany

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Ozark Hiker

My greatest paternal epiphany to date begins, not unusually, with Kat.  He’s been putzing out on me lately.  After two weeks of frigid monsoon April mayhem, May finally arrived like your first sane adult girlfriend and the weekend was going … Continue reading →

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Sprockets & Sermons

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Ozark Hiker

I got blood on my church shirt. Wasn’t much.  Wasn’t on purpose, but still. This Spring, it’s been impossible to get Kat to commit to a backpacking trip.  He went and got himself a new hobby, see.  We’ve done a … Continue reading →

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Scones w/ Blackberry Preserves

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Ozark Hiker

I decided after a fun week of learning how to pickle things, I would ease back into something I’m a little more familiar with.   I had one last gallon of frozen blackberries from this summer and figured it was time … Continue reading →

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November

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Ozark Hiker

Calling it.   The last of my summer crops has finally given in to the cold nights.  This weekend is going to bring a few 30-degree nights, I think, and even the new pods are starting to mottle brown.  The blooms … Continue reading →

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