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tying flies and knitting at the coffee shop while the ice breaks and the salmon do something sounds so charmingly Northern Exposure-ish. Loons at the lake is familiar though. You have loons in Kentucky? I still remember the first time I heard them when I moved here six years ago. They made sounds even the movies don't ever capture. To me, the sound of the loon is the Kenai peninsula's harbinger of the season. That, and the winnowing of the snipe. The middle of summer is loon season at the lake here. Can you hunt snipe there? I know what you mean about the commercialization of Easter. Whenever I hear someone singing HERE COMES PETER COTTONTAIL, I realize how silly it is to talk about a fake bunny rather than a risen Lord! But, we must never forget the Cross, and of course the empty tomb! Jim, yes you can, and no jokes about snipe hunting! ;) Here's my unwritten rule: