While chatting with Blair Frank of Bertram about his Peace Garden, featured in today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette, he said something about graduating from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
Ah, hah. That’s where I graduated, in 1975. Blair earned a degree in biology in 1973. Since each of us finished college in four straight years, that means [...]
Music always brings back memories for me. It was purely by accident I ran across a Web site that features those old fliers you used to pick up in stores beside the 45-rpm record racks listing the day’s Top 40 tunes.
So, for those of you who are fans of music from the late 60s, here’s a stroll [...]
I have to agree with Jason Whitlock, columnist for the Kansas City Star. In a story that ran in this morning’s Gazette sports page, he said officials should have allowed Danica Patrick to confront Ryan Briscoe after they crashed 29 laps from the end of Sunday’s Indianapolis 500. He apparently jumped lanes as the leaders [...]
A couple of golf jokes involving a priest. Maybe you’ve heard them. Maybe you haven’t:
Joe and his priest near the end of their match-play golf contest with Joe up 6 holes with only 7 to play.
The priest can only sigh as he fills in the scorecard from the last hole and moves on to the [...]
Four West Branch buddies will be among the 400,000 spectators at the Indianapolis 500 automobile race Sunday. They’re reliving their youth, with three of them, David “Vid” Johnson, James “Boo” (now “Butch” 
Pederson, and Jeff “Whitey” Lathrop having gone in 1968 and a fourth, Glenn “Hink” Hinkhouse, joining them in 1969. (See today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette.)
I’m [...]
After 3 1/2 weeks, my sump pump has finally stopped running. This is the first year in seven that it has run even once. I had to buy extended drainage tubing so it would drain in the street. I know it was a wet winter and it’s been a wet spring, so that doesn’t surprise [...]
After taking a ride with Tom Pribyl of Cedar Rapids in his classic 1935 Harley-Davidson motorcycle with sidecar (See today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette), I just had to do some research about motorcycles and sidecars.
Wow, there’s a lot out there. Some things you might like to see if this is up your alley:
This brief [...]
Should the government help people who can’t afford to pay their mortgages keep their houses?
If it does, what’s it going to do for those of us who live within our means, studied the pros and cons of various mortgage options and took the most financially responsible route?
I’ll tell you what a bailout program would do [...]
Go to a parade of any substance these days and you’re likely to see a Shrine unit driving miniature RVs, miniature Tin Lizzies or full size motorcycles.
Jack Hagar of Postville, a Shrine clown for more than a quarter century featured in today’s Ramblin’ in The Gazette, drives a three-wheeled scooter with the Northeast Iowa Shrine Motor [...]
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