Category: Experimental Work Farm
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We hope you have the best day!
and that the WI Badgers keep winning! Old enough to remember Dave Garroway, the original host of NBC’s Today Show. He’d sign off each show with the word “Peace” while making the two-finger symbol. In the 1950s, before Abby Hoffman! Appearing with Mr. Garroway on our b&w Philco was a sidekick named J. Fred Muggs,…
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Ready for a long, cold winter
Battening hatches! We will no longer be surprised if the 45th and 47th President announces as his next appointments the Menendez Bros for Supreme Court. They would job share. “How amazing that in the rosy glow of election, he will spend so much political capital and goodwill on confirmation fights he may well, and certainly…
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Blaska’s ballot looks like this:
Garbage in, garbage out! Unlike The Washington Post — or Amazon.com for that matter — Blaska Policy Werkes endorses candidates. In many cases, we help the candidates we support by endorsing their opponents. The old switcheroo, as KC Chiefs Coach Andy Reid might say. Donald Segretti would be proud. Donald Trump riding a garbage truck…
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Going up the country
Baby don’t you wanna go! Every other early October, the Head Groundskeeper and the Lovely Lisa take a break from our increasingly ugly politics to put the top down, turn talk radio off, and put the FIAT 500C’s drive into Sport Mode for a low-speed road trip through Sauk County’s rustic splendor. Our neighbor to…
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Where have all the (bell)flowers gone?
Gone to hell (we hope), every one! Must admit, they are pretty, those creeping bellflowers. A descending row of dainty purple bells hang from their stalk like a church campanile. With white hydrangea and red monarda, Campanula Rapunculoides completes our Independence Day bouquet on the dining table at Stately Blaska Manor. Please till, whack, and…
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Could Madison WI burn like Maui?
We like our ribs charred, not our back yard! All a sudden, Maui doesn’t seem so remote! Or California’s Sierra Nevada. Or Canada’s Northwest Territories. The lovely Lisa asked if we should grill ribs on the back 40 this noon. (We did and they were delicious! Aye, there’s the rub!) South-central Wisconsin is under a…