Last medical update – Daniel’s vision is back to 20/20 with his glasses on…after traveling absolutely no where since early March, the sudden need to put 1500 miles under our belt was necessary, but we are still glad to be past it! Thank goodness the mild November and early December weather made the three trips […]
My annual ritual of summarizing the backstage events of the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival dates back more than a dozen years. I was organizing some of the articles that I keep filed chronologically, so naturally I started re-reading some of these ghosts of PMMFs past. With the COVID-19 pandemic scuttling our favorite local festival this […]
Greetings – you may have noticed our weather station isn’t current – we blew out both hard drives in our server during a power surge (which of course happened while we were waiting for a replacement batt for our power supply/protection unit). In upgrading the server, we found our that our last upgrade of the […]
When Clayton Fisher died in January of 2011, Norman Jack (“Dusty”) Kleiss became the last living dive bomber pilot to have participated in the Battle of Midway. As time took more of the participants of the June 4 – 6, 1942 battle, he found he was being sought out by more and more historians […]
Thought it only right to add a clip of Peggy James’ digital single Hard Times – so to just make the point again, I found out that the machine hosting our webpage, weather station, audio, and video feeds is toast…such is life. Intrepid techie Paul is pretty much having to start from scratch with the new machine, […]
Quick: Which of these names does not sound like it belongs on this list of iconic rock musicians? Keith Moon, Leslie West, Jimi Hendrix, Felix Pappalardi, John Lennon, Jack Bruce, or Laurence Gordon Laing? If you guessed the last one, you get a gold star, but note that I did NOT say ‘does not belong’ […]
UPDATE – Daniel’s first check up post surgery went well – he is recovering with the next visit to Green Bay scheduled for early December. Thanks one and all for your well wishes. With the Governor (rightly so again!) dialing back school and other gatherings to try and break the uptick in COVID, we will […]
Steph Curry is a terrific basketball player, two-time NBA MVP, and one of those wealthy professional athletes who decided to take a stab at becoming a media mogul. It is a little too soon to pass judgement on his budding media career. His attempt at TV production (an exploitation of Curry’s interest in golf […]