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Ramble with Schmitt: Shaking off mud

By Sun-Times Wire

There are people worth reading

(or should that be viewing in this format). Ed Schmitt is one.

He wrote a wonderful piece about shaking off winter, something that not easy to do.

And I mean both shake off winter and write about it.

Click here to view/read it at fourseasonangler.com.

I meant to get to this a couple days ago. Just catching up. This is worth catching up to.

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