Author: Bulletin Board

Of big black cast-iron frying pans, kitchen-heating stoves, mothers and muffins, husbands and sons . . .

This ‘n’ that

Inspired by recent mentions of cast-iron frying pans and oldfangled cook stoves, here’s The Gram With a Thousand Rules: (1) “I have been busy with tax preparation and plumbing problems these past few weeks. Now the taxes are filed, and the refunds should pay the plumbing bills, so I have time to focus on other, pleasanter things, like big black cast-iron frying pans.

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Three chocolate shakes on the passenger seat: What could possibly go wrong?

The best-laid plans

IGHGrampa reports: “Subject: What a mess!

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A funny thing happened on the way to the wedding (x 2) . . .

Our pets, ourselves
And: Accidents of mirth

DebK of Rosemount writes: “In the past month or so, our corner of Rice County has been the scene of rooftop activities not generally advised for 75-year-old pretend farmers. Taxman’s exertions have been calculated, I understand, to encourage calving of the ice dams that have formed at the intersections of the various rooflines on this old farmhouse.

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There was no chance they’d get tickets. And then: Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Gee, our old La Salle ran great!
Or: Where we lived

Zoo Lou of St. Paul: “Back in the ’50s, when I was a runny-nosed little rink rat at East View playground who used Life magazines for shin guards and played with a stick held together by nails, I dreamed of going to the high-school hockey tournament.

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When “Field of Dreams” leaves you (still) cold, it’s time for “the heavy artillery”: Game 6, 1991!

Cabin Fever Chronicles (cont.)
Or: It happens every winter

Here, again, updating her recent report, is Ramblin’ Rose: “Addendum: We’re Talking Baseball.

“We thought that surviving the Polar Vortex meant the end of the worst part of winter, but this week’s 8-inch snowfall here on the East Side made it feel as if we would never see spring.

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