Outdoors
Top 10 Gifts for the Outdoor Lover!
The Great Outdoors presented by: Mark’s Outdoors Struggling with what to buy for your friend or family member that loves the outdoors? The staff at Mark’s Outdoors is ready to help! Here’s a look at items on their Top Ten List, specially priced for the Christmas season. 1. Survival Backpack $40 2. Fenix Flashlight $90 3. …
Deer Season Check List
The Great Outdoors Presented by: Mark’s Outdoors October 15, 2024 is opening day for bow hunting, which means it’s time for the final stages of getting your fields finished and stands placed. It’s also time to get your gun sighted in, and Mark’s Outdoors offers a free sight in with the purchase of two boxes …
College Protest for Angler Advocacy
The Great Outdoors As a freshman at the University of Montevallo, I knew that the proximity to Lay Lake and my grandfather’s old house would be a draw for me during the doldrums of college study. Little did I know though, that my occasional angler protests of attendance to early morning classes during the summer …
After He Rose… He Got Arrested: Camping Stories with Walt Merrell
The Great Outdoors Our Easter celebration on the banks of the Cahaba River was special indeed. (See the March edition of Birmingham Christian Family). It is one of those moments that my girls sometimes reflect on with fondness- an Ebenezer Stone in the memory vault of their life. But admittedly, those fond memories are sometimes …
Cahaba River Eggspedition with Walt Merrell
The Great Outdoors I woke during the night… rain pitter-pattered on the tent top. A once soothing creek right behind our camp now gargled into the Cahaba River, as if it were angry. The slow, steady rain had swollen both creek and river. The noise likely wouldn’t have disturbed me had my air mattress not …
Good Storms Make Great Memories: Walt Merrell Snow Stories
The Great Outdoors In 2014, ice covered everything in South Alabama during the dark of the night before, and just as He promises, the sun blanketed the entirety of the landscape the following day. With no power, we retreated to the den because it was heated by a wood burning fireplace. With three young girls …
Walt Merrell’s Lessons from the Father, and the Wife
The Great Outdoors Snow fell heavily that blustery February night. Hannah and I had only been married a year or so, and we were still caught somewhere between adventurous college students filled with puppy love and established married folks who made budgets and paid bills on time. Centerville was halfway between her work at the …
Shepherding Outdoors: Modern Day Ebenezers
The Great Outdoors Even in the bitterest of cold January months, most of our eyes and hearts will start to drift toward spring. A few hunters, our family included, will stay focused on what we call the “deer woods” through mid-February, but even for us, after that, all eyes will turn toward the hope of …
Protect Your Eyes While Enjoying the Outdoors
Great Outdoors presented by: Mark’s Outdoors Summer means more time to enjoy the outdoors in the beautiful sunshine. Before you step out the door, be sure you protect your skin with sunscreen and your eyes with UV blocking shades. Too much sun, particularly UV light, can damage your eyes causing cataracts as well as destroy …
