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Showing posts with label signs of the times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signs of the times. Show all posts
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...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Portraits

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Me, about age 3.  I had a sort of impish charm back then. Me, age 25.  Good lookin' if in part by association..... Me, a year or two bac...
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Monday, September 1, 2025

Illogical Measures

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There are times when the world seems particularly illogical.  Among the many reasons people give for this, our system of measuring things ge...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Well This Seems Like a Bad Idea

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A sign along a rural road.   Oh, surely you remember the Morlocks from H.G. Well's Time Machine???? These guys: Cannibalistic troglodyte...
Monday, April 21, 2025

A four star review.

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Consider this a pair of "product reviews".  One for something that has always been good and is getting better.  One that is going ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Sneezy, Sleepy and ???

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I was at Walmart.  Yes, even I go shopping on rare occasions.  And I saw this: It is a display of allergy pills that have "branding...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Detritus - 2025

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I shall at least start the new year of writing with good intentions and a plan. FIRST Robotics kicks off at the end of this week.  So for Ja...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Shifting Gears

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I've been doing this since 2011.  Almost 2500 posts.  Sometimes they are abundant.  When I'm off on fun travels they almost write th...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Help Wanted President (and VP) 2024 Update

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Well it has been an unusual Presidential election cycle.  Seems like just a few weeks ago I had a few things to say about it.  Time for an u...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Messages from The Before Time

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I can't help it.  After years of dumpster diving projects I still look at piles of stuff on the way to oblivion.  This batch of stuff wa...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

British Columbia - Acute Contrasts

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Of course BC is a big place, so I'm only talking about part of it.  We spent our "off the map" time in the mountainous central...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Officer Hank, and Signs of The Times

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No trip to England would be complete without my needing to puzzle over/marvel at various signs I run across.   The hound shown here is a dea...
Monday, May 6, 2024

American Scene - May of 2024

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It's Drive your Tractor to School week here in rural America! Tractors large and small.  They all have flags on them. Here, blowing in w...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Axman Redux

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It's been a long time since I went over to Axman Surplus in St. Paul.  I've been trying to reduce the amount of random stuff in my ...
Monday, September 11, 2023

New Wheels

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Over time your vehicles evolve.  You start out with a student days junker.  Then comes a mini van with car seats for the kids.  Then somethi...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Long Shadows

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Fall is in the air and you can perceive it in subtle ways.  On our morning walks the sunlight has a steeper angle and a different quality to...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Public Health Department Rises to the Occasion...

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I was at the County Courthouse recently on an administrative matter.  I walked past the Public Health office and saw that they had some swag...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Signs of the Times - Summer in Wisconsin

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  Faith on display and perhaps half price Men for sale....?
Monday, June 26, 2023

A Day of Victories

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It's not the things you can't remember, its the things you remember just a bit wrong.... As we headed out the door to fly overseas i...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Easy Street

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  In a stretch without major responsibilities.  Doing a bit of fishing.  Hanging out with the grandies.  Easy Street.