Fairytopia

Yes it's not something you think about doing in the winter but with the warm days we had our Graddaughters came over and set up a fairy garden underneath the pine tree in the backyard.

Each one came up with their own design from differnt adornments purchased at the dollar store.

This was a fun activity and helped pass some time in the doldrums of winter. If you're looking for something to do the Outdoorama is on this weekend and there's always the Metro Parks to go to. Today you can make candles at Lake Erie or do some bird watching at Oakwoods. Hopefully the ground hog was right and spring will come early those walleyes are just waiting.

Get Outdoors Downriver.

Free Fishing Weekend

Feb. 16th and 17th is the winter free fishing weekend so bundle up and wet a line. There are many places to fish open water from Belle Isle to Point Moullie so use your imagination and catch some fish. You can even net goldfish now:

DNR enacts new netting regulation changes to enhance fishing opportunities


The Department of Natural Resources today announced new fishing opportunities for dip-net anglers. The dip-net season has been modified and will now open statewide on March 20, as opposed to its previous date of April 1. Additionally, dip-net and hand-net seasons are no longer differentiated by peninsula and have been consolidated into a single season.

To increase netting opportunities, goldfish and gizzard shad have been added to the list of species allowed for harvest with dip and hand nets. The changes became effective on Feb. 7, 2013, when DNR Director Keith Creagh signed Fisheries Order FO-229 – Netting Regulations.


The MDNR is shutting down their licensing system for 3 days to do some computer updating so plan accordingly.

Star Dust in February

Former Wyandotte resident Roger Ptak has his own newspaper article based on info collected during a career of studying the stars. Go to http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=55&SubSectionID=81&ArticleID=702&TM=32861.8
to find out where Jupiter and Mars will be this month. Most people look at the stars and don't know the difference between a Pleiades and an Aldebaran, but they're there and planets can be seen more often than not.

There's also a possibility of seeing a comet with the naked eye. Possibility you say? This is it's first time around? Unfathomable. This is from the Jet that used to be on the Comets.

Another piece of info that you may have see or heard about is the asteroid fly by. No one is concerned about this even though it will come in between earth and some of our operational sattelites. It's only the size of half a football field so who's worried. The math is on our side.

Get Outdoors Downriver.