Chucky's Wood Day
2/2/06 6:34 am.
28º F, Cloudy, SSE wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
Today is the woodchuck’s day of "glory," but they can’t even get his name right - calling him a groundhog. Oh well, a lot to do about nothing. Was a really big deal for the kids when the marriage broke up though. Especially the boys. Dori seemed a bit bored by it.
Yesterday’s breakfast muffins blew up! Margriet doesn’t know why, but they grew about twice their normal size in the pan as the baked yesterday. They were very much lighter than normal, but just as good. They also provided a point of teasing too. Wonder what surprise we will have for breakfast this morning?
Yesterday, our local paper had a couple of neat snippets in the history column.
1916 - "The Kewaunee Street Committee, consisting of V. Mashek, M. Shilbauer and L Bruemmer, is advertising for bids on the job of filling West Water and Miller streets with logs to a depth of one foot." [The two streets mentioned apparently went through a swampy area of town and needed a corduroy road style of construction to stabilize them. At present there are a couple of buildings which are tipping, thanx to inadequate footings in the same area.]
1931 - "The Pilsen Brass Band broadcast an hour program over Station WHBY, De Pere, from the studio above the Bellin building in Green Bay. The band leader Joseph M, Altman. Radio fans were treated to Bohemian waltzes and polkas." [Pilsen is a small town west of here, once a rip-snorting town.]
1946 - "Orville Ihlenfeld, town of Montpelier, was involved in a very unusual accident when a saw belt stripped his clothing and threw him naked into a snowbank. Ihlenfeld escaped with a cut on his head and some bad bruises." [Sounds like he was using a chop-saw to cut logs or split logs into firewood length. Huge circular saw driven by a tractor or stationary engine by a flat belt. Very dangerous and pretty much outlawed now and replaced by the chainsaw.]
1996 - "About 150 Kewaunee students in Grades K-12 spent Monday night at Kewaunee High School, waiting for the country roads to be cleared following Monday’s snowstorm, so they could be bussed home. Kewaunee, Algoma and Luxemburg-Casco schools were all closed Tuesday in the aftermath of the storm." [This happened the year before we bought FISKLAND. It was a very snowy year!]
We really get a kick out of reading this column every week. Normally there is at least one item that peaks our interest. This week had more than normal. The items from 100 or 125 years ago are really interesting. We find out who bought/built which building, which sailing or steamship came into port with what cargo, who’s horse ran wild pulling a wagon or buggy, &c. We also find out when a train car load of new automobiles come to town and who bought them. Even though we think these items are ancient history, the folks in the Netherlands would probably consider them as recent news!
Finally finished up the pot of soup yesterday and we tried it out. Not too bad. This one is about twice the normal quantity as I usually build. The package of neck bones was much larger than normal. We probably will be eating it for lunch for a couple of weeks. It sure is filling! Sometime ago, Margriet made up some bags of soup mix, containing several kinds of beans. We are still using them every time bean soup is made. There are still several packages left, so will be having bean soup for a time yet. We really like it. Of course we like all kinds of soup, especially the old-fashioned "slow" soups to make.
I ran across a website yesterday devoted to a different system of plumbing water and hot water heating systems. The system relies on a flexible plastic piping rather than hard plastic or metal. The Pex system (http://www.durapex.com/) is becoming more widely used and really makes sense. There are far fewer joints and the cost is less than conventual methods. Another thing that appeals to me is that the Pex tubing can take some freezing and thawing without rupture. Sure wish this place had it installed when everything froze here the first winter we bought the place! Anywho, I am looking to changing over and using it as the need arises to change things here and in the future.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
28º F, Cloudy, SSE wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
Today is the woodchuck’s day of "glory," but they can’t even get his name right - calling him a groundhog. Oh well, a lot to do about nothing. Was a really big deal for the kids when the marriage broke up though. Especially the boys. Dori seemed a bit bored by it.
Yesterday’s breakfast muffins blew up! Margriet doesn’t know why, but they grew about twice their normal size in the pan as the baked yesterday. They were very much lighter than normal, but just as good. They also provided a point of teasing too. Wonder what surprise we will have for breakfast this morning?
Yesterday, our local paper had a couple of neat snippets in the history column.
1916 - "The Kewaunee Street Committee, consisting of V. Mashek, M. Shilbauer and L Bruemmer, is advertising for bids on the job of filling West Water and Miller streets with logs to a depth of one foot." [The two streets mentioned apparently went through a swampy area of town and needed a corduroy road style of construction to stabilize them. At present there are a couple of buildings which are tipping, thanx to inadequate footings in the same area.]
1931 - "The Pilsen Brass Band broadcast an hour program over Station WHBY, De Pere, from the studio above the Bellin building in Green Bay. The band leader Joseph M, Altman. Radio fans were treated to Bohemian waltzes and polkas." [Pilsen is a small town west of here, once a rip-snorting town.]
1946 - "Orville Ihlenfeld, town of Montpelier, was involved in a very unusual accident when a saw belt stripped his clothing and threw him naked into a snowbank. Ihlenfeld escaped with a cut on his head and some bad bruises." [Sounds like he was using a chop-saw to cut logs or split logs into firewood length. Huge circular saw driven by a tractor or stationary engine by a flat belt. Very dangerous and pretty much outlawed now and replaced by the chainsaw.]
1996 - "About 150 Kewaunee students in Grades K-12 spent Monday night at Kewaunee High School, waiting for the country roads to be cleared following Monday’s snowstorm, so they could be bussed home. Kewaunee, Algoma and Luxemburg-Casco schools were all closed Tuesday in the aftermath of the storm." [This happened the year before we bought FISKLAND. It was a very snowy year!]
We really get a kick out of reading this column every week. Normally there is at least one item that peaks our interest. This week had more than normal. The items from 100 or 125 years ago are really interesting. We find out who bought/built which building, which sailing or steamship came into port with what cargo, who’s horse ran wild pulling a wagon or buggy, &c. We also find out when a train car load of new automobiles come to town and who bought them. Even though we think these items are ancient history, the folks in the Netherlands would probably consider them as recent news!
Finally finished up the pot of soup yesterday and we tried it out. Not too bad. This one is about twice the normal quantity as I usually build. The package of neck bones was much larger than normal. We probably will be eating it for lunch for a couple of weeks. It sure is filling! Sometime ago, Margriet made up some bags of soup mix, containing several kinds of beans. We are still using them every time bean soup is made. There are still several packages left, so will be having bean soup for a time yet. We really like it. Of course we like all kinds of soup, especially the old-fashioned "slow" soups to make.
I ran across a website yesterday devoted to a different system of plumbing water and hot water heating systems. The system relies on a flexible plastic piping rather than hard plastic or metal. The Pex system (http://www.durapex.com/) is becoming more widely used and really makes sense. There are far fewer joints and the cost is less than conventual methods. Another thing that appeals to me is that the Pex tubing can take some freezing and thawing without rupture. Sure wish this place had it installed when everything froze here the first winter we bought the place! Anywho, I am looking to changing over and using it as the need arises to change things here and in the future.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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