Category: Tales from the front lines
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We’re getting a new park!
Not that much wrong with the old one but .. Our little park here in Orchard Ridge, all 2.68 acres of it, is being renovated. The old basketball court and single light standard were removed several years ago. Can’t remember the last time it was used. The softball backstop got taken out earlier this year.…
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Those ‘activist’ parents are getting help!
Where there’s smoke, there’s charcoal! Hope you are burning plenty of meat on the barbie this Labor Day. (Tell Greta to chill.) You have our permission to wash it down with a cold brew or two, guilt-free. Never mind what Obama said: You Did Earn This! → Bonus: the Brewers’ grand slam, walk-off victory in Sunday’s game…
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Enjoying Wisconsin at nearby Fish Camp
Where shall we go this summer? Been awhile since a fish boil in Door County. Love to return to the Smoky Mountains down south. That week in Bisbee AZ was great! Sleeper train car to Washington D.C. is the way to go. Hungry for good eating in New Orleans but we hear the weather is…
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Off we go into the wild blue yonder
Flying off a hilltop in Verona WI To the north, from an elevation of 1,080 feet, you could look down on the sprawling new campus of Epic Systems just west of Verona. (Lake Monona is 845 feet above sea level.) We were standing on Sugar Ridge Airport, one of some 30 privately owned landing fields…
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Play Base Ball, America
Hope you watched the White Sox play the Yankees next to the Field of Dreams in the middle of Iowa cornfields Thursday evening 08-12-21. Worth it just to see the players emerge from the corn surrounding the outfield. No Shoeless Joe Jackson but the same reverence for the game of Base Ball. (Pronounced in two…
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What’s next? Elektrokleinstfahrzeugen?
We DO ride an e-bike A Tesla super charging station is going in on Odana Road, just east of Whitney Way on the west side of Madison WI. Between the HyVee food supermarket and the Mobil gasoline station (for those who like their irony). More are going in at East Towne Mall, at the Hy…