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Showing posts with label Americana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Americana. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2026

Den Four, Buddy.

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  Oppressive summer weather kept me inside a bit in late July.  And put me onto some tasks only marginally nicer than sweating and breathing...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

4th of July - America at 250

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Fourth of July is usually a surprisingly personal holiday for most Americans.  We  get the three day weekend off - ER docs being the excepti...
Friday, July 3, 2026

Upstairs, Downstairs

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Our house was built in 1908.  Not old from the standpoint of our community, which got going in the 1840's, but it does represent an inte...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Lumberjacks (and Jills)

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Timber Sports.  Now there's a phrase you probably have never heard.  It's basically modern people competing in lumberjack activities...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Three

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Weather was The Usual.  Alternating sun, clouds, rain, driving rain, birds singing happily.  You get used to it after a while.  Here's t...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Merrill Wisconsin - an odd gun in the Park

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  Seen in a Veteran's Memorial park, Merrill Wisconsin. It is of course an artillery piece, but what an odd one.  Huge springs!  Let...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Baseball with The Chicago Ladies

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Well, here the Chicago Ladies are in 1908.  You'll notice a few Chicago dudes there as well.  We'll get to that in a bit. This is an...
Monday, November 3, 2025

The Lactose Maniac

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So much stuff coming up from the basement of my parent's house.  This is archaeology plain and simple.  You dig through different layers...
Friday, August 22, 2025

In the Shadow of the Great Prairie Dog

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I have not been traveling much this summer.  But some family members are.  Steeling themselves for the ordeal of long distance vacation driv...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Kingman Reef

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Interesting times politically.  Some people are happy, some unhappy.  But there is certainly change in the air.  One thing that happens with...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Baits and Bling - Merry Christmas 2024

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Hope you had a swell Christmas and got what you wanted.  I did.  Some time with our adult kids, some hugs, high fives and "knucks"...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

The Stockyard - a rare Business Review

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Sometimes you just have to say nice things. Vojtik's Stockyard is an unusual business enterprise.  Two locations a short distance apart,...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

There's something you don't see every day.....

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My deer hunting trips to my son's Homestead had me sitting in a tree stand for a few hours in the morning and a few in the evening.  So ...
Friday, October 11, 2024

CCC Camp Globe Revisited

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My earlier post on CCC Camp Globe had too many loose ends.  I had gone there looking for remains of the place, particularly of the impressi...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Walk like an Egyptian....

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I'm not a very "musical" person.  My assorted relatives a couple generations down were amazed that I don't own ear buds, d...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Exploding Whale Day

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   At this point the majority of you are saying "What the heck?", while a few oddball savants are saying "A bit early, isn...