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PAT NEAL: The day after Valentine’s
“IT MUST BE nice to be a fishing guide.” If I had a dollar for every time I…
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PAT NEAL: Digging potatoes in the snow
THERE ARE FEW things I enjoy more than digging potatoes in the snow. I know, I should have…
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PAT NEAL: A hard winter
IF I HEARD this once I’ve heard it a million times from the old-timers who claimed that winters…
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PAT NEAL: How’s the fishing?
HOW’S THE FISHING? If I had a buck for every time somebody asked that question, I wouldn’t waste…
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PAT NEAL: The cow whisperer
AS A CHILD, I wanted to be a cowboy. To wake up under a starlit western sky to…
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PAT NEAL: A cabin fever cure
YOU DON’T HAVE to be crazy to dig razor clams in the night tides of January — but…
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PAT NEAL: A short history of geology
THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped…
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PAT NEAL: Keeping New Year’s resolutions
THE SECRET OF making and keeping New Year’s resolutions is to focus on the little things that can…
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PAT NEAL: The perfect Christmas gift
BY NOW, I’M pretty sure we’ve all had it up to here with those phony Christmas letters some…
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PAT NEAL: A Christmas survival guide
WHY CAN’T CHRISTMAS last all year? You’d better be glad that it doesn’t.
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PAT NEAL: A Dirty Thirties Thanksgiving
THIS IS A story about Thanksgiving in the olden days.
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PAT NEAL: Hunting season excuses
AND SO, ANOTHER hunting season passes astern. I hope yours went better than mine. It was a shipwreck…
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PAT NEAL: Spawned-out salmon important to ecosystem
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river. The shadowy forms of overhanging trees appeared like a tunnel in the…
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PAT NEAL: The day after the election
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like tent camping in the rain forest during the monsoon season.
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PAT NEAL: The Halloween hunt for Bigfoot
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE a hard day’s writing to make me glad I’m not one of the country’s leading…
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PAT NEAL: Predicting the coming winter
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA) issued its 2024-25…
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PAT NEAL: The autumn menu
AUTUMN IS A time of plenty on the Olympic Peninsula. The salmon are running. The game is fattened…
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PAT NEAL: It’s apple picking time
IT WAS DAYLIGHT at the homestead, but I was more than a little late for breakfast. I probably…
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POINT OF VIEW: Vote yes on both PASD propositions
MUCH IS AT stake in the upcoming elections. In Clallam County, which is now our nation’s sole bellwether…