Category: Tales from the front lines
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Let’s hear it for rust!
Summer of car shows Feel sorry for guys who feel they must dye their hair black. The Head Groundskeeper at Stately Blaska Manor has earned his touch of gray the hard way — through sustained substance abuse! Social media recommended keeping our 1949 (or is it a 1951) Allis Chalmers model G tractor as is.…
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Celebrating the red, white & blue. And orange!
Almost no fireworks! Does anything say God Bless America better than an Independence Day parade on a hot Wisconsin summer day? Again this year, the Orchard Ridge neighborhood here on the SW side of Madison WI knows how to celebrate America’s birthday. (Mike Thomsen is the best association president!) Again in 2021, a big red…
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Allis G sure is orange!
By gosh and by golly, we just might make the deadline! UPDATE: We finished in time for Independence Day parade! The truth and nothing but HERE! Isn’t that the plot line for every car restoration reality show on cable television? The saga of restoring our 1949 (or it is 1951) Allis Chalmers model G continues!…
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Hope you are having a wonderful Father’s Day
Ours is shaping up good. Once again ran the lawnmower over the plastic hose leading out of the basement sump pump. Despite the warning stick (often used to mark firehose plugs in snow drifts). Back from Menard’s for a replacement discovered that what I really needed was a 1½ inch hose, not the 1¼ inch…
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Memorializing the soil of life
Growing in a WI farm community We know that Memorial Day is intended to commemorate soldiers who lost their lives defending our freedom. Pardon the indentured servants at Blaska Stately Manor for remembering the ancestors who sacrificed to begin our American chapter in December 1852. Johan and Barbara (Skalitzky) Blaschke arrived in New York aboard the Jason…