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The Nina and the Pinta have been making their way up the Mississippi River. This weekend they are at the waterfront park in LaCrosse. We combined a car buying trip with a look at Columbus’s fl...

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Thanks to the black cat fixing the radio and my recent interest in Twitter, I spent more time at the Democratic convention than I had in a long time. Since I am a Democrat (I have credentials) Li...

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,,, always more. I’m really getting a lot of good out of the cat knocking the radio on the floor. The radio is a prized possession. It is a duplicate of the one I bought my husband for the firs...

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or two

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I’m not sure of the source but I tend to think it’s accurate. At least as accurate as a lot of what is being spread around as political truth. I copied it here because I didn’t want to lose it...

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Not sure why. I’m never sure what makes me write. Pictures help. And for some reason right now anyway photobucket is not working well. I put up a couple pics a day or so ago with plans to pos...

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Saturday we went to a train show in LaCrosse. It involves a tour of the big old steam loco at Copeland Park and its stockman’s caboose. A stockman’s caboose has accommodations for extra people ...

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Mostly daylilies with late afternoon sunshine coming through. The ones that still bloom are the tougher ones, maybe not so pretty but you gotta give them credit for survival. No work tomorrow...

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If scientists had logos https://t.co/jGmV9TIsL8 pic.twitter.com/zMOrTCjrYR— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) July 14, 2016 <script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-...

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I opened drawer #4 and then closed it again. At least it would shut. Actually it had another phone book in it that I put in the trash. There was a complicated cord to something in the drawer...

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Drawer number three defeated me. Besides manuals for farm equipment that has not been on the farm in 35 years, there was son John’s (good) report cards, a compass (the pointy kind with a hand s...

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I had a good day today. I worked with LL who is a very pleasant woman. We have various things in common and we were doing a reasonable job. It was a long fire engine harness and we had plenty ...

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.. of my time off. I go back to work tomorrow. If I go. I am not certain. I dislike that in myself. I dislike a whole bunch of stuff about myself. But I see no need to change. I just want ...

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(This starts out kind of depressing but gets happier toward the end. I wrote it over a couple of days.) I just found myself at inspirational quotes superimposed on photos at Pinterest. I don...

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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” –Billie Holiday Link NYTimes story about 109 Nobel Prize Winners who support GMO crops. Note seen on a work cart at my job:...

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… a bronzey Buick Lacrosse in the used car lot of the Ford dealership. Pretty car. Little pricey. 62,000 miles and they want seven or eight. Maybe we will offer six. Downtown was pretty e...

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You have to be the change you want to see. The Golden Rule has many corollaries, but they all say we have control of our lives. We can do what we want and we can do good and get good back. It ...

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… for the first time in a long time. They are climbers and they have names. The yellow one is Yellow Blaze. This is Joseph’s Coat. Joseph’s Coat is an old rose. I remember it from Henry Fiel...

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Here’s the pic I wanted to post yesterday. And here are pics from the walk yesterday morning. I still can’t get the yellow file copied thing to work on the links above and to the right of the ...

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I was going to write a quick and hopefully entertaining entry before going out to face the world.... And guess what? I’ve either forgotten how to post photos - oh the horrors - or something has ...

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.. who you follow here or in other aspects of life who pretty much don’t know you exist? Or care? I have people I read here who interest me and who I sometimes try to engage who pretty much ign...

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… I meant to cover up the last entry sooner. I always feel bad when I write a bunch of negative stuff. I realize I got a lot of notes and I appreciate what you all said. I read some of them - ...

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And does anyone think we don’t need assault rifles for hunting or defense? Or for exercise of our constitutional rights?

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This is the kind of story you expect to hear about our government subsidized railroad passenger service. But first a disclaimer. This is my fifth or maybe sixth trip from LACrosse to St. Paul and...

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… in the red chair … in my red LLBean robe. I blend in. They are different shades but not too different. It’s supposed to get hot but it isn’t too bad yet. and The power went off. With it th...

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