Be sure to pick up any debris left over from the winter. This may include fallen limbs, leaves and litter that went unseen under the snow.

It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

We're just going to pick up where we left off last year, ... The girls get along well and they've already gelled. They play well together, and we have a lot of strong younger players filling in our holes.

Last season left a bad taste in his mouth, I'm sure. He's got a good taste now.

Will Ferrell is about as funny as leprosy, except without the possibility of seeing someone with missing limbs.

We've made some calculations about whether we could put a plant in northern Minnesota, based on the debris that's left after you cut timber, like the tops of the trees. It's difficult to get enough together to support [an ethanol] plant. That material is scattered enough that it gets expensive to collect it all and bring it to one location.