Drip, Drip, Drip!
12/24/05 6:05 A.M.
33 F, Cloudy, NE wind 3 mph.
Good morning and Merry Christmas,
I will try this again. The last blog would not publish, so I start over with the heading of the first start. Hope I can remember what I wrote! Seems like my POP3 didn't want to pop and had to restart to solve the problem. The blog didn't get saved in the process.
Looks like we will not be taking a Kransekake to church tomorrow. For some reason the dough is not right and will not go through the cookie press to form the rings. During the preparation of the dough, we had to go to the bank before it closed until Monday. In the process, the dough changed and seemed not to be moist enough to process. We will not through the dough away, since the ingredients are so expensive, but rather make it into cookies. Guess I will have to suffer through them! ;-)
In the mail yesterday I got a "request" to donate money to a history association of the college I went to, Stout State College - then. I didn't even know there was such an association. I probably will not send any money, but they did have a website to go to, http://www.uwstout.edu/history/ , so I did. It is very interesting and has a lot of pictures, by decades, of the school since the 1880' to the present. There even are pictures of the car racing which got me started in the sport and of the cafe, Dan's Cafe, that I ate many meals at. The cafe picture is from the 30's, but it was not much changed when I ate there. It went out of business when he started an all-you-can-eat meal for $.55! I think a bunch of college guys ate him out of business. By clicking around the site, you should be able to find pictures from my era, 1959-1964 plus graduate studies until 1974. There is an excellent group of pictures showing the campus and buildings as it developed. Some of the classroom pictures from the turn of the century, look very much the same as when I was there - only some of the equipment was newer. We still had the overhead power shafts and flat belts to each machine for some of the equipment we used. One milling machine I remember was built in the same year as the building it was in - 1893! Worked pretty well too.
Our sewer system is still not working well. I picked up a drain cleaner that is the strongest which can be used the other day. I put it in the system yesterday and we thought we had it working again. That was until we put several dishwashings of water down the drain. I think I will finally need to start digging and find out what the real problem is. No matter what, I don't like the thought of digging into frozen soil in the winter. Especially when it is raining out as it is at the moment.
Margriet was finally able to locate and restore an address book on her computer. It contained several addresses we want to send Christmas letters too, so some folks will have their Christmas mail time extended some. Slowly, she is getting her computer back to "normal", as it was before the last incident. She, and I, have several programs to download yet. Both of us run out of patience too soon though.
Our low temperature last night was higher than our normal high should be. Looks like the same will be true for the next few days also. Walking in the woods is like walking in cold mud. The snow has turned to slush and not fun. There should be enough left to call it a white Christmas. But not pretty. This weather really cuts into my beating on trees too. Spring is here, even though the calendar says it is winter for a couple of days now. Got the onion sets planted yesterday! :-)
I think that pretty much is what I wrote the first time, so it is time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
33 F, Cloudy, NE wind 3 mph.
Good morning and Merry Christmas,
I will try this again. The last blog would not publish, so I start over with the heading of the first start. Hope I can remember what I wrote! Seems like my POP3 didn't want to pop and had to restart to solve the problem. The blog didn't get saved in the process.
Looks like we will not be taking a Kransekake to church tomorrow. For some reason the dough is not right and will not go through the cookie press to form the rings. During the preparation of the dough, we had to go to the bank before it closed until Monday. In the process, the dough changed and seemed not to be moist enough to process. We will not through the dough away, since the ingredients are so expensive, but rather make it into cookies. Guess I will have to suffer through them! ;-)
In the mail yesterday I got a "request" to donate money to a history association of the college I went to, Stout State College - then. I didn't even know there was such an association. I probably will not send any money, but they did have a website to go to, http://www.uwstout.edu/history/ , so I did. It is very interesting and has a lot of pictures, by decades, of the school since the 1880' to the present. There even are pictures of the car racing which got me started in the sport and of the cafe, Dan's Cafe, that I ate many meals at. The cafe picture is from the 30's, but it was not much changed when I ate there. It went out of business when he started an all-you-can-eat meal for $.55! I think a bunch of college guys ate him out of business. By clicking around the site, you should be able to find pictures from my era, 1959-1964 plus graduate studies until 1974. There is an excellent group of pictures showing the campus and buildings as it developed. Some of the classroom pictures from the turn of the century, look very much the same as when I was there - only some of the equipment was newer. We still had the overhead power shafts and flat belts to each machine for some of the equipment we used. One milling machine I remember was built in the same year as the building it was in - 1893! Worked pretty well too.
Our sewer system is still not working well. I picked up a drain cleaner that is the strongest which can be used the other day. I put it in the system yesterday and we thought we had it working again. That was until we put several dishwashings of water down the drain. I think I will finally need to start digging and find out what the real problem is. No matter what, I don't like the thought of digging into frozen soil in the winter. Especially when it is raining out as it is at the moment.
Margriet was finally able to locate and restore an address book on her computer. It contained several addresses we want to send Christmas letters too, so some folks will have their Christmas mail time extended some. Slowly, she is getting her computer back to "normal", as it was before the last incident. She, and I, have several programs to download yet. Both of us run out of patience too soon though.
Our low temperature last night was higher than our normal high should be. Looks like the same will be true for the next few days also. Walking in the woods is like walking in cold mud. The snow has turned to slush and not fun. There should be enough left to call it a white Christmas. But not pretty. This weather really cuts into my beating on trees too. Spring is here, even though the calendar says it is winter for a couple of days now. Got the onion sets planted yesterday! :-)
I think that pretty much is what I wrote the first time, so it is time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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