'sconsin stuff

WARNING!! BAD WORD ALERT!

Published on August 25 2005

Please tell me this isn't happening...... .....those really aren't red leaves in front of my house........ are they? @#)%$*^*$# fall. < sound of chainsaw >

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Yup, they're kinda dark&blurry. I've discovered that my flash doesn't have very much range, lol. At one point, I was standing in front of the stage next to some guy with a digital camera attached to a lens the length of my forearm. I was peeking over...

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Blues Day today!

Published on August 19 2005

This is going to be a new one for me--I've threatened to go to this festival for the last five years or so, but just haven't made it yet. I either had to work, or had something else going on at the time. THIS year, I made a shift swap to have the evening...

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A True Wisconsin Tradition

Published on August 8 2005

Woman Eats 35 Bratwursts in 10 Minutes - Yahoo! News SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Sonya Thomas, at 99 pounds, gobbled her way to another speed-eating title over the weekend by attacking a Wisconsin staple — the bratwurst. The woman known as The Black Widow on the...

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Take THAT, Winter!!!!

Published on August 6 2005

The Original V8 snowblowers Yes!!! It does blow snow as well as anything else that gets in its way for that matter!! A 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet...O.K., but in a walk behind snowblower? This unit blows the snow back to where it came from! This...

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Bear (Bare?) skin Trail ride

Published on July 10 2005

Went for a ride along the Bearskin Bike Trail this morning. It's a gorgeous ride through a state forest, along an old railbed. Supposedly, one day it will connect with my normal ride on the Hiawatha trail, but for now I have to drive up to Highway K to...

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56 hours in.....

Published on July 6 2005

.......and 24 to go.

What the heartland can offer those on the coasts | csmonitor.com For many of the 50 percent of Americans living on both coasts, the Midwest is flyover country, best seen, sophisticates think, from 39,000 feet. Airline passengers might look out the window...

JS Online: Gaylord Nelson dies at age 89 The former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator is regarded as one of the most significant people of the 20th century in Wisconsin, ranking fourth in a survey of 42 historians and other experts. Only Progressive...

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Survivor -Wisconsin Style

Published on June 27 2005

Got this awhile back in email, and thought it was sorta cute...... :-) Due to the popularity of the Survivor shows, Wisconsin is planning to do it's own, entitled "Survivor -Wisconsin Style." The contestants will start in Milwaukee, travel up to Sheboygan...