Now & Then
The Gram With a Thousand Rules: “I read the article in today’s newspaper about the ribbon to be cut on August 2nd to open the St. Croix bridge. Continue reading “He was “sick and tired of waiting for the blankety-blank politicians to get their act together and open the blankety-blank bridge”!”
Fellow travelers
Baseball Division
John in Highland: “My two baseball-loving sons took me to San Francisco recently to see the Twins play the Giants. I learned a lot about AT&T Park and its location on the bay. Although the locals rave about how nice the location is compared to Candlestick, night games are still very chilly, especially when the wind blows. The grandstand is situated to block winds from the west or north. Continue reading “Did you know that baseballs float? San Francisco Giants fans do (know, that is).”
“Lost” . . . and found (responsorial)
Gregory J. of Dayton’s Bluff: “With all due respect to The Gram With a Thousand Rules, Joe Soucheray, and Charlie Hall, who spearheaded the project to build the fantastic 1986 Ice Palace in Phalen Park and then built a monument to memorialize it a year later, the monument is not lost and should not be moved to Rice Park.
Continue reading “Where should the 1986 Ice Palace monument be? Right where it belongs!”
The passing show
Or: Life as we know it
No Sued Name: “I stepped out onto my back porch (golly, I love that porch!) to breathe in the wonderful fresh air. (Wednesdays are about the only time I don’t have to be out and away early.) Continue reading “Her world — and welcome to it!”
See world
Another close encounter of the natural kind, documented by Gregory J. of Dayton’s Bluff: “I finally spotted a few monarch butterflies in my garden this year, which reminded me of one I saw several years ago and its close encounter with a bumblebee.
Continue reading “What did the butterfly say to the bumblebee? Buzz off, bumblebee!”
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