Category: Tales from the front lines
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Let the kids play!
The smart phones can wait! Mother pointed out the seldom-used front door of our farmhouse east of Sun Prairie WI toward a small white building on the horizon — the one-room Oak Lawn School. Her oldest child would walk there the next morning, unaccompanied, to learn how to read greatly aided by listening to the…
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These are a few of my favorite things 🎵
Even Kramer would approve! Jerry Seinfeld is one of America’s most interesting people (along with Aaron Rodgers, Bill Maher, and Jonah Goldberg). He’s iconoclastic, unpredictable, and doesn’t really care what you think, as long as he has captured the quintessence of the thing, as he reveals in the 14 minutes he recorded for the men’s…
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We’ll have to settle for just some of the eclipse
Cuz we can’t go to Kokomo! Pulled out our Rand McNally World Atlas (large scale) and poured over the maps of Illinois and Indiana, something we are not wont to do here at Stately Blaska Manor except that Monday 04-08-24 a total eclipse of the sun sweeps across the North American continent from Mexico to…
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We left the world behind for a week
It seems not to have missed us! We’re back from Rancho Mirage, one of nine cities in the Coachella Valley about 120 miles due east from Los Angeles. The streets are named after founders like Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, bandleader Fred Waring, and Dinah Shore. Sonny Bono plays big here, too. Gerald Ford retired here…
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Did you notice?
Our brave new look? The Werkes did some remodeling at Stately Blaska Manor, home of the Policy Werkes. We’re using a WordPress theme called “Stewart.” Replaces the Twenty-Ten theme we have used since Day One, which was 12-08-2016. The crew at This Old House was restoring a mid-century modern in Massachusetts, so Pops and crew…
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Blaska’s cup is half full
of an adult beverage! At some point over Thanksgiving dinner, Blaska will be challenged to recite those things for which he is thankful. We have been warned not to repeat last year’s party pooping, when Blaska grunted, “Can’t think of a damn thing. Pass the gravy.” Tomorrow, we’re going to ac-cen-tu-ate the positive and e-lim-i-nate…
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