Opinion

Weather Watch We were cruising along through the summer and fall of this year until we came to October. To me, that is when time slowed down to a crawl. I think it was because there were Halloween Decorations out starting in September, and it just took forever to get to Halloween.

The 2018 election is an important milestone for South Dakota elections. It was 100 years ago – on November 5, 1918 – that South Dakota voters, all men, gave women the right to vote in our state for the first time. It wasa long-awaitedvictory for voting rights for women.

Weather Watch During the summers of the mid-fifties, from the time I was a 6th grader until high school graduation when I had to get a job, Dad took my brother John and me on camping/ fishing expeditions into remote Canadian lakes. We never saw another fisherman.

Weather Watch Tuesday, October 23rd has finally arrived and now it is gone. That date has been circled on my calendar for a long time as the day I will have surgery for cataracts. I’ll let you know how it went next week. Should they even call it surgery?

Over the past few months, Linda and I have been getting ready to turn the Governor’s Mansion over to its next occupants. We’ve been working with state maintenance crews to replace light bulbs, repaint rooms, clean out the drains, and make other small improvements.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod I had never given much thought to hunting pen-raised pheasants until I saw the article “Wild VS. Preserve Birds” by John B. Snow in the fall 2018 edition of Outdoor Life magazine.

“Bohemian Concrete. That’s what we’re going to need,” said one of my farmer friends. Boy, I hadn’t heard that expression since I don’t know when. It means that we’ll need the ground to freeze up hard enough to support all of the equipment when we start harvesting again. When will that be?

It seems to me the only voices being heard in this world are from big companies, big cities and big government. The news blasted on my car radio as I drove across the prairie a few weeks ago, “the nation’s Gross Domestic Product growth has risen to a booming 4.

October in South Dakota is a glorious month. I love the crisp mornings, chilly evenings and weekend sounds of marching bands in homecoming parades. And I truly love the annual gathering of family and Pheasant season in South Dakota is always a great experience. This year could be especially so.

It would be a serious understatement to say pheasant hunting is one of the most highly anticipated outdoor traditions in South Dakota, and its roots go back an entire century.