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“I’ve used a variety of sizes and styles of paper notebooks as I’ve built the cabins and planned projects at Two Mile Ranch. I’ve used calendar style journals to record weather, laying habits of chickens, garden plots, feed purchases, building and shelter plans, shopping lists, and the general diary of events.” –Fritz Nordengren. Iowa, December 28, 2010.

Thanks to Fritz’s oldest son for giving Field Notes (Iowa, of course). And thanks to Fritz for the lovely post and photo.

Field Notes is proud to sponsor the Eighth Annual Tournament of Books over at The Morning News.

Our pocket-sized memo books are perfect for recording notes, quotes and sketches while you make your way through all 16 books. They also serve as a handy way to keep track of your Rooster picks during all five rounds of matches.

Buy anything in the Field Notes Shop while the tourney is on and be sure to enter coupon code ROOSTER before you check out. Doing so will score you a special red, letterpressed memo book stamped with the ToB Rooster and bound with our heavy duty Field Notes Band of Rubber.

We hope you enjoy the 2012 Tournament of Books!

3-Packs of our Winter Limited Release, The Northerly Edition, are all sold out. Thanks everyone. You can still get these snowy white and silver beauties as a part of a COLORS Subscription. Sign up now and you’ll get “Northerlies” right away and you’ll also get our next three seasonal editions as they are released. Trust us, you are going to want Spring. Oh yes you are. And Summer. Oh boy, if we can pull off what we have planned…

We were in New York City last week and Paris this week, showing our little notebooks at the fabulous Capsule Show. We met a bunch of really cool people, added some great new retailers and said hi to some of the fine folks that currently carry our books in their shops. We’d like to give a shout out to BPMW, the people who put on the show, it’s always a blast and always top notch, so thanks for letting us be a part of it! We’ll be in the Las Vegas edition next month there, stop by and say hi!

Thanks to your amazing support of FIELD NOTES, we’ve done very little advertising. When we do, it’s generally sparked by the desire to support a publication or site we love. That’s the case again as this ad appears in the forthcoming (and highly-anticipated) issue 6 of The Ride Journal. The Ride is a beautifully-designed magazine full of great writing and photography, covering the many disciplines of cycling, all around the world. It’s the rare sort of magazine that you’d want to put in a safe plastic sleeve and hide from your friends, but you just can’t stand not to read and share it. We’re excited to be a small part of it, and we’re carefully watching Facebook for details on Issue 6′s release.

Jace Mullen was at a Secret Santa party in San Diego. One friend got Field Notes. One friend got mustaches. The rest is history. Could this be our next COLORS edition? The answer is “nope!” But it’s still glorious.

We’ve pushed up the release date of the thirteenth in our series of quarterly, limited editions of our memo books in seasonal colors and styles by a couple of weeks. We were caught a bit off guard when our fall release sold out so quickly and we wanted to make sure there would be plenty of time for you to give these new ones as holiday gifts. The winter release is “The Northerly Edition” and it’s unlike any version we’ve made so far and it’s available to order right now in 3-packs and as part of a COLORS subscription.

Thanks to James White of Signalnoise for the lovely photo above. BTW: James is a bit of a collector.

We’ve reconfigured “The Kit” to include the new 18-Month Workstation Calendar. Save $15 off retail when you order plus we’ll toss in some goodies including a brand new, secret thing that you probably need.

Sound advice from Charles Simic, from the New York Review of Books blog.