Category: Experimental Work Farm
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Day ? of the Hollywood (yawn) actors strike
No artificial intelligence used at the Werkes!Nothing artificial, no intelligence — ever! How are you weathering the Hollywood actors and writers strike? Over in Pyongyang, our indentured North Korean proof readers walked off the job in sympathy, whereupon they were promptly terminated and returned to the gulag. Otherwise, Blaska Policy Werkes carries on as before.…
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Gardens of the gods
at Shorewood Hills WI Go out to the UW Credit Union at 3500 University Avenue and sign up for today’s home garden tour at six locations in lovely Shorewood Hills WI. The $15 tour is sponsored by Olbrich Botanical Gardens. It ends at 3 p.m. today 07-08-23. The Lovely Lisa and the Head Groundskeeper were…
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As right as rain!
Like Grandma on the farm would say! We are not shaking our fist at the smoky unprecipitating sky this day, for — on the day after Independence Day in the year of our Lord 2023, the skies did open up and it raineth most deliberately. A darn good soaker! So welcome and longed for that…
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Smoke on the water
This is one for the books! Never seen it so smoky as today on the SW side of Madison WI. The National Weather Service blames Canada. Why not? !!! We’ve been blaming Canada for winter for a century or more. This website shows the worst is right over southern Wisconsin (as of 4:35 p.m.) 06-27-23.…
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A little precipitation over here, pls!
Let’s play the percentages! Might drought-parched southern Wisconsin get some much needed rain? The National Weather service puts the chance of showers tonight at 90%, Sunday at 70%, Sunday night at 80%, Monday at 70%, and Monday night at 30%. Ol’ Sparky (our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer) figgers the cumulative odds of precipitation at 340%. Don’t…
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Coneflowers and pizza boxes this spring
Soon to be the next big thing! Hope you don’t think less of the Head Groundskeeper (if that were possible) when we tell you that the indentured servants at Stately Blaska Manor save their pizza delivery boxes. Can’t waste good cardboard like that! Turns out they were just the right size of the latest project…