Category Archives: Tales from the front lines

How can I pi𝜹𝜹 you off today?

It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s politics! Someone at the Dane County Republican caucus last month said he listens to Blaska on Vicki McKenna’s radio show. “No you don’t,” this blogger responded. Keeps happening.  Chalk it up to persistence of memory. … Continue reading

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Pig in a Madison poke

We’re rooting for Rudy! We’ve seen chickens in the urban backyards here in the Emerald City. Would host a flock at the Experimental Work Farm and Penal Colony, ourselves, if we weren’t convinced foxes would make off with them. We’ve … Continue reading

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Breaking up (stuff ) is fun to do

As American as exploding fireworks on July 4′ No rural delivery mail box was safe from a teenager shotgunning when the Head Groundskeeper was growing up (if he ever did) in the 1950s. The highlight of every Fixer Upper home … Continue reading

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It is snowing ‘here’

and it is beautiful! The grounds of the Stately Manor this Saturday afternoon are a snow globe, lightly shaken. A Grandma Moses painting come to life. The falling snow blankets the blue spruce and dwarf white pine while, inside, the … Continue reading

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Hunkering down at Stately Blaska Manor

Riding out the storm! The indentured servants at Stately Blaska Manor are battening the hatches. Stockpiling provisions. Girding for the big one. The b&w rabbit-eared Philco advises that the Emerald City here in southern Wisconsin is under a winter storm … Continue reading

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Spread a little non-political Christmas cheer

Beware of conservatives bearing gifts! Two Christmases ago, sent a gift subscription of National Review to a sibling of the Democrat(ic) persuasion. Thought he would enjoy good writing from a different perspective. Hasn’t spoken to the Head Groundskeeper for over … Continue reading

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