Notebook
June 29th, 2018 by Gary Osberg

The forecast for the weekend is hot and steamy. Here in Minnesota we are very lucky to have the occasional cool breezes from the north. I sure hope that you will have a safe and fun Fourth of July week. The Joetown Rocks Parish Festival fireworks will be in my front yard once again, Tuesday […]

June 29th, 2018 by Gary Osberg

Last Saturday was the 35th annual Camp Confidence Classic Fishing Tournament on Gull Lake. It is a fundraiser for the camp. Professional fishing guides donate their time, boat and bait. Each guide takes two guests who have paid for the privilege to participate. Erik signed up as a guide in 2015. That year his crew […]

June 15th, 2018 by Gary Osberg

Sunday is Father’s Day. In 1998 Dad moved from his high rise apartment in downtown St. Paul to my house in Upsala. He had been a city fellow for most of his life, but he was raised in Upsala. I was working in Minneapolis as a sales manager with a Xerox agency and I was […]

June 15th, 2018 by Gary Osberg

This weekend I am going fishing with my four brothers, my son Erik and my grandson “Walleye Willie” plus brother Craig’s son Grayson.  A total of 8 Osberg men from ages 9 to 74.  Sometime in the nineties, my youngest brother Craig was invited by his father-in-law, Jim Keeler, to go along on a fly-in […]

June 1st, 2018 by Gary Osberg

Wednesday is the 74th anniversary of “D Day”.  If you have seen the movie “Saving Private Ryan”, you have some idea of how bad it was.  It is hard to imagine that anyone who lived through that experience would ever be the same.  The many years of living with those memories are hard to imagine.  […]