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Tag: Sun Prairie WI

  • Two funerals in two days

    Wasn’t that a Hugh Grant movie? Said goodbye Wednesday 01-08-25 to a grade school and high school classmate, Leo Schneider. Both of us were farm kids from large families. Truth be, we weren’t all that close and our paths diverged entirely until a mutual classmate brought together a dozen or so of us not long…

  • Go east, young Republican!

    Trump won 7 places in Dane County WI! As promised, the Blaska Surveillance Vehicle ventured outside the distortion field of Madison WI to take soil samples of the presidential vote county-wide — in cities like Stoughton and Sun Prairie, villages like DeForest and Deerfield, and towns like Perry and Primrose.  In the previous thrilling episode,…

  • The happy little ghosts of Christmas past

    Look, Dave, look! Not a thousand Hallmark Christmas movies can recapture the magic of a child’s Christmas. Maybe Cousin Eddie on Christmas Vacation, our favorite holiday movie (along with It’s a Wonderful Life), whose heart is bigger than his brain. But the Head Groundskeeper hereabouts remembers the magic and wonder of early Christmases. Old guys remember…

  • Chores in a one-room country school, 1955-57 (part #2)

    Previously,“One Small School Room in the Country 1955” Most of the kids at Oak Lawn country school in rural Sun Prairie WI came out of small, working family farms. Agriculture was consolidating even in the 1950s. Even then, 80-acre farms provided a living, with maybe a part time job at Oscar Mayer or driving school…