Category: Tales from the front lines
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And another thing!
Firing random synapses today! 3.4 inches of moisture fell at the Blaska Experimental Work Farm over the weekend. Speaking of dark clouds: is it too difficult for the auto industry to hard-wire daytime running lights into their vehicles? People! Headlights in a rainstorm may not help you to see but will help you BE SEEN!…
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Mr. Big Stuff
Blaska feels like king of the hill today. This unhandy man installed a ceiling fan at his son’s condo and, by Gawd, it works! O.K., it was a three-day project. Deduct one man point for consulting the instructions. Multiple times. Sure, Blaska forgot to flip one of the circuit breakers back on and everything in…
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Our family remembers Independence Day
Reprinted and adapted from 2020 My father was proud he was born on the July 4, 1919. Jerome Blaska served in WW2, was elected to the state legislature where he chaired the Highway Committee building the Interstate, and raised six children with our mother, Helen (Curl). He was also proud of his field crops. One of nine siblings,…
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Yuppies, yippies, black nationalists, & feminists
— nothing has changed since that summer of 1970. Something tells the Head Groundskeeper that he is well past the halfway mark on a life well lived. Anyway, he spends a lot of time peering into the rear view mirror. Pulled out of the gun safe a 12″ by 16″ hardbound book. It contains every edition…
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Dearly departed …
The final account down! The Head Groundskeeper’s wife, the Lovely Lisa, wants your favorite bloggeur to write his obituary. We prefer to attach a benign interpretation to her demand but we’re trying to be extra special nice to the dear woman, just the same. Why, just the other day, we shared the extra Chicago hot…
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An editor & publisher at age 7
Start the presses! The most recent editor of the Wisconsin State Journal is moving upstairs to a job at corporate hdq. Jason Adrians, we hardly knew ye. Isn’t that the case with every newspaper editor and publisher these days? Who is today’s Colonel McCormick? Katherine Graham? Ben Bradlee? Who bosses the Washington Post since Marty…