Greg Galbraith
For Agri-View
Charcoal, mosquito repellent, picnic-table cloth, floaties, weedless jigs, plastic worms … it’s my current hardware-store list scratched on a sticky note with a carpenter’s pencil. It’s a list that screams July in Wisconsin.
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