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  • in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2055158

    My great niece graduated with honors from the UW last Saturday. She finished in three years with a double major.

    There’s one apple that fell a heck of a long way from the tree!!

     

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2055138

    We are in the calm before the storm here in East Sandland. It’s dead calm out but the booming of thunder off to the West can be heard. One of the new cats is already in hiding, the other is still going from window to window hunting the birds at the various feeders.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054936

    I don’t care what it’s doing outside, the snow shovel is staying put away in the shed.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054917

    Yesterday I went caching for the first time this year and it didn’t occur to me until this morning what was missing, BUGS.

    Looking at all the water standing in central Wisconsin I can’t believe that will last for long.

    Oh and I encountered my first roadwork flagman, Adams Co. was TP’ing Hwy. 21.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054884

    Had another Pileated show up today except today it was a female and she selected the large suet.

     

    Don’t know if that says anything.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054866

    I just had a male Pileated Woodpecker at one of my suet blocks. In January there was a female at different suet block and that prompted me to put out a larger block, thinking that would be more comfortable for them. The Pileated Woodpeckers still go to the small blocks,….. Chickadees seem to like the large one.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054535

    No. And don’t call me Virginia.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054524

    I’m sure that when Humphrey left office the choppers were repurposed again somewhere else. The Minnesota ANG in those days had no need for them, I believe they were an aerial refueling and transport outfit. I recall touring one of their big transports while a couple of the guys talked about training flights to Puerto Rico. It seems that those transports could haul unbelievable quantities of rum.

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    On another topic….those of you who are facebook friends with Trekkin’ may already have seen the photos he posted on facebook about our visit to the Minnesota Air National Guard Museum yesterday. We had a blast, like kids at an amusement park. History, airplanes, other aviation artifacts! As a result of our visit there, we learned a few other things when visiting my parents afterward and sharing our experiences, including the fact that one of Dad’s cousins married a cousin of Richard Bong. This was one of those experiences that is a true geocaching gem. I don’t think we’d have learned about this awesome location if not for the virtual placed there. GCJAHG This does require advance planning and the time to enjoy the tour. Had we already known of this site, we’d still have gone through the hoops to visit it, cache or not. I encourage anyone with an interest in history or aviation to give it a visit.

    I was never to their museum but I did have contact with the Minnesota ANG. Back in 65 they were assigned to fly us around to our outlying sites with their helicopters. We used two with white painted tops, they were said to be the only two in the world painted that way. These two choppers had been assigned to JFK. but with his death they had been passed down to HHH. and relocated to Minneapolis for his use there.  LBJ. got new ones

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054501

    Good Morning

     

    Yesterday I was out picking up some of the thousands of sticks and twigs that litter the lawn after a winter of ice and wind storms, and today I expect to be doing more of the same.

    One question kept bothering me as I raked and picked. “Was that a TICK”

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054453

    Good Morning.

    This year’s terrorists, I think they are the same as last year’s, have been really aggressive on the tulips already.I hope they all make it.

    The tulips or the terrorists ?

     

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054346

    St. Patrick’s Day morning, I look out at my driveway and I see it covered with something starting with ‘S’ and that doesn’t stand for shamrocks.

    Actually its slush except on the more shaded parts, where its frozen slush.

    I went out and scraped where I could, at least the ice underneath will go away sooner.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054312

    I had a set of Coyote tracks in my fresh craphas this morning. Came across the back yard, across the drive, went around the house and back down the drive.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054308

    Good morning.

    Just went out a while ago to clean off my driveway, putting my ice cleats on first as I’ve learned to do this year. What do I behold but an inch and a half of craphas and completely dry underneath, no need for cleats this day.

    in reply to: Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds #2054156

    Thanks all for the birthday wishes. Things do get better with time, right?

    Of course, now you’ll get to show your AARP card wherever you go. What could be better than that ?

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