My Parents were there from the start, but Mia, Oscar and I got up at 6:15 this Saturday morning to witness the moving of the house! It was worth losing a little sleep for. The Milbraths were there too and we followed the house as it travelled along. Such excitement! At one point there was a truck parked along the curb and 7 or 8 guys just picked it up and moved it onto the grass so the house could pass by. It looks great at it's shady new spot on the corner of 25th St. and 7th Ave.
They started at 6:00 and by 8:15 the house was set down in place. waiting for its foundation to be built up to it. A funny thing - there was a small truck parked on the road in spite of all the "No Parking Police order" signs all along the route, but about 8 guys just picked it up and put in on the grass. When we got to the lot, they had to lift it and "scooch" it back and there was a moment when it tilted a little, but otherwise it was smooth as silk. Molly came with Mia and Oscar in a wagon and the Milbraths came to spectate, plus a few neighborhood parishioners who walked the whole route (about a mile). There is a mentally handicapped guy who lives on the corner and he's been coming over and "supervising" ever since it started, and today the construction guys gave him a blus hard hat. He was thrilled.
That was "blue hard hat." Not to be a whiner, but this was over in 2hours. Couldn't they have just come over any time this last four months and done it on their lunch break? Oh, well, it's moved at least!
Tropical Storm Bonnie has just landed. Really, it's just rain, though the winds are supposed to hit soon. Those won't be that bad either. She's not that impressive.
Here's a $300,000 question. When you order iced tea at a restaurant do you expect a lemon slice with it? Would you think it strange if it wasn't served with it.
We were talking today and we could save $300,000 a year by not serving lemon with it.
I wouldn't offer a lemon bc a lot of peeps will say "yes" whether it matters to them or not. I would serve it w/o and if they request....happily provide. :-)
It's the first time I've been on the blog in a month.
Here's the unemployment update: Nebraska doesn't require non-profits to file unemployment insurance. Meaning the Archdiocese of Omaha and all it's affiliates (which employ hundreds and hundreds) doesn't have to pay me unemployment. I could appeal, but the ruling would be based on what the law says, not the fact that I consider it unfair.
Hope you all had a FUN AND GREAT weekend. We are busy scraping and painting. It's taking a long time. I like to stop around noon so that I don't cook too much.
I tend to get heat rash and so have not been wearing much sunscreen. I guess it's back to sunscreen. Which Kate friend? So sorry for her, Pat.
Steve and Cathy's house looks great. I wish you could have seen the set again for Growing Apostles Day Camp. There was a ship and all the kids were aboard. There was a lot of talk about Paul's journeys (hence the ship)
RAGBRAI was very fun...first in Whittemore yesterday afternoon and last evening in Algona. Right now Mike, Don, Brian, Joe J. and Brian's bro Jay are all biking their way to Clear Lake! It's VERY hot and steamy here. Yesterday was a better weather day. Jo J, Brian and Jay biked from Storm Lake to Algona, stopping in Whittemore. Mom and Dad's was the perfect spot for the Ortega and Richardson kids to set up a "pop stand" at the end of Mom and Dad's driveway as the nearly 20,000 bikers wne streaming by....Catie and Ty and the rest did a great job of flagging bikers down to buy a soda. Half of the money will be sent to Haiti. They made $150. Dad had hungarian goulash the night before for all of us including Molly's family, Cathey and Steve with Gracie's kids, Ellen and new baby Caroline, Caitlin and her friend Daniel, Mike and I and Joe and kids. Last night he did meatloaf and I made tacos....7 pounds of meat...I remember feeding the last of the tacos to 3 hungry bikers at 2 a.m last night!! I think they were from Cedar Rapids and were camping somewhere on our block. RAGBRAI is cool, and really neat how it comes right past Mom and Dad's. Many got off their bikes right there and relaxed and talked to the Straub clan...Dad had 2 stop, one was a Deacon from Sioux City. The kids really had fun.
Ragbrai sounds like lots of fun. How are the bikers holding up?
Had a pastrami and swiss sandwich yesterday with the first tomato from the garden. Well, actually we had a couple of little yellow pear tomoatoes earlier. Only two of our plant's fruit is ripe and already we have too many tomatoes. What to do when the other five are ready? We also did the topsy turvy strawberry planter. So far we've had about 6 berries and there are several more nubs that look like they'll be tiny berries. Sam kept yanking on the strawberry plant so I'm going to try it again next year.
Who is all planning on going to Southern Ia for Labor day? I think I'm going to go with Jude.
RAGBRAI was a lot of fun! Thank you to G & G and the LaVelles for hosting everyone! Granny and Grandpa have the perfect, shady yard for the bikers to rest in. They were all very polite and thankful to be able to rest under the trees and talk with us for awhile.
All but one of our tomato plants are doing horrible. Too much rain and early neglect from being 9 months pregnant this year. Emily, I had tons of different kinds of tomatoes last year I didn't feel like canning. I roasted them all together with a lot of garlic, a few hot peppers and some spices and herbs, then froze the mix in small batches. We ended up using it for tomato sauce, roasted salsa, hot sauce base, and the best was base for spicy tomato bisque.
Em, you ca just freeze them. Drop them in boiling water for about 3 sec. pull out an immediately put them in ice water. The skins should just peel off. Then freeze in freezer bags. I throw them in the blender when thawed and use in chilli and spag. sauce.
We Richardsons had a great time in Whittemore, Algona and Clear Lake this week. I think it may become a new family tradition! Thanks to Mike and Mary for hosting us, and to Grany and Grandpa for feeding us and letting the kids have the pop stand which was very successful and kept them entertained all day!
Haven't checked in for awhile Lisa, just because they are not required to carry unemployment insurance doesn't mean they are not required to pay unemployment benefits, I would imagine. Creighton's a non-profit but I'll bet if they lay off a janitor he gets unemployment benefits. is there an appeal deadline?
FYI...Creighton isn't part of the Archdiocese of Omaha...or maybe Joe was just making a point about non-profits...I can't ask him because he still in trial.
I was online at the Library of Congress website looking at a photo show that Caitlin has sent to me, and then also at their current exhibitions, and just then Phelan called me from the Library of Congress and she had just viewed the show I was just looking at! I didn't even know she was in D.C.! Amazing. Phelan just played in Cleveland and now tonight in D.C.
OH! I forgot to mention...I just listed "200 South Durant Street". I'll have it on our website next Monday with photos, etc. The last realty company (Landmark just lost the listing to me, the RELO Co. hired me)they had an open house there last week and Mom and Dad Joe and Mike and I all walked through it, it was alot of fun and Dad had many stories about construction, etc that will be helpful.
I just had a mini-adventure. A lady and her son had stored a bunch of stuff (clothes, papers, etc) in the garage at our parish while she was in a domestic abuse shelter and the YWCA in Omaha arranged for a storage place to hold them for a month while she gets out of town. She's going to Arizona tomorrow. But she had no way to transport the stuff to storage, so I was here and, thinking this is a 10-block jaunt down to the storage place, I said I would load it all up and take them. As we're leaving, she asked if I would stop at the Dollar store so she could get a cold drink. OK, we stopped there and when she came out 15 minutes later she asked if we could drive through Burger King because they hadn't eaten today so I did, and when we got up to the window to pay she handed me her food stamp card, which of course you can't use at Burger King, so I paid for her and her son's lunch (she offered to buy me something to eat!) Then we had to drive to 30th and Farnam to the YWCA to line up the storage deal, which wasn't arranged at all, so we waited for the caseworker and she ended up calling all over to find storage that would let us in today without an appointment and accept the Y's assurance of payment for one month. So we got one at 55th and Center and drove there and the woman at the desk couldn't remember her computer password (!)so that took a while but we finally got a unit so I helped them unload and all the stuff was just chaotic, like she threw everything she could into suitcases and trunks real fast, which I'm sure she did, and a container of leftover Chinese food from Hy-Vee fell out of something after being in the parish garage all week, and she handed it to me and said, "Here, Cathy, you have this, it's very good." I told her I love Chinese food and drove away. It's still in my car outside.
You ARE one nice lady. Did you not get annoyed with her even a little? I guess if you're going to be charitable you can't complain about it being a pain in the ass. Good Job!
Summer is so great. The kids spend a lot of time in the $10 plastic pool from Menards (which is on its 3rd summer) and I just sit on the deck under the umbrella with my icetea and direct Jude and Sam as to which flowers and plants to water while Finn splashes away. They love it.
Durant house looks way different. The image of the "rock" linolium throughout the first floor is forever impeded in my mind. I remember the pattern and all the different shapes of the psuedo rocks.
For me, the look of the house as we had it worked better than the remodels since. Even the red countertops are better than present.
Now it looks like a mild upgrade from a generic white wall apartment.
No offense to your listing, Mary. Obviously, My opinion is formed by the forming of my formative years giving my opionion this form.
SEan hit a deer coming home from a friend's house. The car is totaled but he is fine. The whole front, right side of the the car is damaged. Door,side panel, headlights,bumper and windshield. It's not worth fixing. Poor deer! There was hair in the glass and poop smeared along the side. It's pretty impressive damage. There's bits of glass in the back seat even.
The house is pretty generic looking now. But isn't that what buyers want? It would be easy to personalize it. Pull up carpet. Paint. Etc.. It has good bones. And great floor plan for a family. I think that back entry was perfect for a family with kids. YOu could dump everything there and it wasn't spread all over the kitchen and family room.
The University of Kansas fight song will be revised this fall to account for longtime border rival Nebraska's move to the Big Ten next year and Colorado's upcoming departure for the Pac-10.
"I'm A Jayhawk" mentions six foes from the old Big Eight -- all but Iowa State. Kansas is the only school with cause to tweak its fight song after this summer's conference realignment.
Nebraska's and Colorado's songs don't reference other schools.
The KU Alumni Association is holding a contest for students to come up with new lyrics to replace those mentioning Nebraska and Colorado. The winner will be announced at homecoming, Oct. 23.
115 heat index today. Stevo is over at the house removing an asbestos vent pipe, dressed head to toe in long sleeves and throwawy jeans with a respirator. I'm sure he's having fun. A plumbing inspector casually mentioned that it's going to have to go, and he wants to get rid of it before someone tells him he has to hire some 300-dollar-an-hour special asbestos abatement contractor or something. I'm going home at noon to finish cleaning up the back yard and patio before the air conditioning repairman comes. Long night last night.
TravelCenters of America (TA) rose by 68 cents, or 25.9%, to $3.32 after the company reported second-quarter earnings of 7 cents a share on revenue of $1.5 billion, compared to the lone analyst target that forecasted a loss of 82 cents a share and revenue of $1.4 billion. Volume topped 500,000 shares, compared to the average daily share volume of 91,000.
You know....an under reported news story is the prospect of gerrymandering when all these republicans come into office after the elections. Using new census figures and new votes they can shape districts in their favor for years to come.
Hey, I think it might be time to do a yearly update of addresses and phone numbers. I volunteer to do this, although I know Ed is good and organizing all this info too! Anyway, if you would like me to get out a new list, email me your info or just put it on here. Address, phones, emails, grown up kids' info as well. Or if someone else wants to put it all together, that is fine with me. My email is ellen.jayjack@gmail.com
Caroline has started smiling and imitating faces. It's so cute. She sticks out her tongue or tries to click it in her mouth if you do it to her. We have a lot of fun play time with this, but she has also formed a tight bond with Mama. She will hardly let Andy hold her this week even. Yesterday we were looking in the mirror, then she started to cry when she saw me inthe mirror because she thought I was in front of her and not holding her (At least that is how I interpreted that cry).
The Kossuth County Fair was a success (we have a booth)...they really are bringing in alot of people with the free gate. Lisa and her girls came on Friday, Mom made it twice. Joe brought her once for lunch at the Catholic stand and they walked around, and Lisa also took her to lunch and they walked thru ALL the showbarns and did the midway with the girls.
We saw "Inception" tonight. We liked it. The complexity and layers of reality in it might not appeal to everyone (and it's LONG)but the story and effects were great, and with good actors.
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My Parents were there from the start, but Mia, Oscar and I got up at 6:15 this Saturday morning to witness the moving of the house! It was worth losing a little sleep for. The Milbraths were there too and we followed the house as it travelled along. Such excitement! At one point there was a truck parked along the curb and 7 or 8 guys just picked it up and moved it onto the grass so the house could pass by. It looks great at it's shady new spot on the corner of 25th St. and 7th Ave.
They started at 6:00 and by 8:15 the house was set down in place. waiting for its foundation to be built up to it. A funny thing - there was a small truck parked on the road in spite of all the "No Parking Police order" signs all along the route, but about 8 guys just picked it up and put in on the grass. When we got to the lot, they had to lift it and "scooch" it back and there was a moment when it tilted a little, but otherwise it was smooth as silk. Molly came with Mia and Oscar in a wagon and the Milbraths came to spectate, plus a few neighborhood parishioners who walked the whole route (about a mile). There is a mentally handicapped guy who lives on the corner and he's been coming over and "supervising" ever since it started, and today the construction guys gave him a blus hard hat. He was thrilled.
That was "blue hard hat." Not to be a whiner, but this was over in 2hours. Couldn't they have just come over any time this last four months and done it on their lunch break? Oh, well, it's moved at least!
My goodness. It looks exciting and highly habitable soon. Congrats on getting that step done.
Mike how was your concert? Did you go out to eat as well? Win any money?
You Jayjacks have had a very busy month. Do you need a vacation yet?
Monica
Next week, after Vacation Bible School. We'll pick up some grandkids and see you at Ragbrai. No bikes, just brews.
Who is going to Algona fro Ragbrai and what days will you be there?
Hooray! The house looks great in its new spot.
I'll be Algona on Monday night.
The kids and I will be in Algona either Sunday night or Monday midday. Brian will arrive sometime later with the Ragbri Crew!
Hey, if a person gets poison ivy on their face do they need to trow out their makeup?
Monica
I would unless it's expensive, in which case you could pour off the top layer and see what happens.
Maybe wash or get new brushes and scrape away the top surface.
I can't come for Ragbrai but the rest of ya'll should take the rest of the week off and come and visit us up here.
LiLo won't be here for Ragbrai.
Cab you believe it? Only 6 weeks til college football starts!
Tom
Tropical Storm Bonnie has just landed. Really, it's just rain, though the winds are supposed to hit soon. Those won't be that bad either. She's not that impressive.
Mike how was your birthday?
P
Pat, You sound like someone who has lived in south Florida for 30 years. Dad
But it's true. It rained hard for a couple of hours and now it's just windy and overcast and hot and humid.
P
Does Bonnie lie over the ocean?
C'mon...everybody for RAGBRAI! It won't be back here for many years!!
Here's a $300,000 question. When you order iced tea at a restaurant do you expect a lemon slice with it? Would you think it strange if it wasn't served with it.
We were talking today and we could save $300,000 a year by not serving lemon with it.
Boss told me to think about it.
Tom
I'd have them on hand, and if someone asked, you could give them a lemon but don't serve it unless they ask. Maybe you can save $200,000 that way...
When tomatoes were expensive a couple of years ago, some restaurants in the Twin Cities would only put them on burgers if the customers requested.
p
I've been in places where the waiter asked if I wanted lemon. Maybe that?
Monica
I wouldn't offer a lemon bc a lot of peeps will say "yes" whether it matters to them or not. I would serve it w/o and if they request....happily provide. :-)
Hey - how is RAGBRAI?
40 days until college football.
Good luck to those biking today and/or tomorrow. It's super hot and steamy here today and I imagine it's not much different in Iowa. Be careful!
Wear your sun protection...I just learned my friend Kate lost her brother this morning to skin cancer. Her sister died of it about 6 years ago.
Her brother had three kids under the age of 10.
I feel sad for them - they lost a brother in law 12 years ago to brain cancer. And their dad died two years ago.
p
It's the first time I've been on the blog in a month.
Here's the unemployment update: Nebraska doesn't require non-profits to file unemployment insurance. Meaning the Archdiocese of Omaha and all it's affiliates (which employ hundreds and hundreds) doesn't have to pay me unemployment. I could appeal, but the ruling would be based on what the law says, not the fact that I consider it unfair.
Hope you all had a FUN AND GREAT weekend. We are busy scraping and painting. It's taking a long time. I like to stop around noon so that I don't cook too much.
I tend to get heat rash and so have not been wearing much sunscreen. I guess it's back to sunscreen. Which Kate friend? So sorry for her, Pat.
Steve and Cathy's house looks great. I wish you could have seen the set again for Growing Apostles Day Camp. There was a ship and all the kids were aboard. There was a lot of talk about Paul's journeys (hence the ship)
Lisa
Goodness that is sad Pat. Put your sunscreen on everyone.
RAGBRAI was very fun...first in Whittemore yesterday afternoon and last evening in Algona. Right now Mike, Don, Brian, Joe J. and Brian's bro Jay are all biking their way to Clear Lake! It's VERY hot and steamy here.
Yesterday was a better weather day. Jo J, Brian and Jay biked from Storm Lake to Algona, stopping in Whittemore.
Mom and Dad's was the perfect spot for the Ortega and Richardson kids to set up a "pop stand" at the end of Mom and Dad's driveway as the nearly 20,000 bikers wne streaming by....Catie and Ty and the rest did a great job of flagging bikers down to buy a soda. Half of the money will be sent to Haiti. They made $150.
Dad had hungarian goulash the night before for all of us including Molly's family, Cathey and Steve with Gracie's kids, Ellen and new baby Caroline, Caitlin and her friend Daniel, Mike and I and Joe and kids.
Last night he did meatloaf and I made tacos....7 pounds of meat...I remember feeding the last of the tacos to 3 hungry bikers at 2 a.m last night!! I think they were from Cedar Rapids and were camping somewhere on our block.
RAGBRAI is cool, and really neat how it comes right past Mom and Dad's. Many got off their bikes right there and relaxed and talked to the Straub clan...Dad had 2 stop, one was a Deacon from Sioux City.
The kids really had fun.
Ragbrai sounds like lots of fun. How are the bikers holding up?
Had a pastrami and swiss sandwich yesterday with the first tomato from the garden. Well, actually we had a couple of little yellow pear tomoatoes earlier. Only two of our plant's fruit is ripe and already we have too many tomatoes. What to do when the other five are ready? We also did the topsy turvy strawberry planter. So far we've had about 6 berries and there are several more nubs that look like they'll be tiny berries. Sam kept yanking on the strawberry plant so I'm going to try it again next year.
Who is all planning on going to Southern Ia for Labor day? I think I'm going to go with Jude.
RAGBRAI was a lot of fun! Thank you to G & G and the LaVelles for hosting everyone! Granny and Grandpa have the perfect, shady yard for the bikers to rest in. They were all very polite and thankful to be able to rest under the trees and talk with us for awhile.
All but one of our tomato plants are doing horrible. Too much rain and early neglect from being 9 months pregnant this year. Emily, I had tons of different kinds of tomatoes last year I didn't feel like canning. I roasted them all together with a lot of garlic, a few hot peppers and some spices and herbs, then froze the mix in small batches. We ended up using it for tomato sauce, roasted salsa, hot sauce base, and the best was base for spicy tomato bisque.
We are looking forward to Labor Day farm fun!
Em, you ca just freeze them. Drop them in boiling water for about 3 sec. pull out an immediately put them in ice water. The skins should just peel off. Then freeze in freezer bags. I throw them in the blender when thawed and use in chilli and spag. sauce.
Monica
Do you ever go back and read what you wrote and just cringe?
All the time.
Monica
We Richardsons had a great time in Whittemore, Algona and Clear Lake this week. I think it may become a new family tradition! Thanks to Mike and Mary for hosting us, and to Grany and Grandpa for feeding us and letting the kids have the pop stand which was very successful and kept them entertained all day!
Nice thing about Ohio - no bugs including misquitos.
Tom
Haven't checked in for awhile
Lisa, just because they are not required to carry unemployment insurance doesn't mean they are not required to pay unemployment benefits, I would imagine. Creighton's a non-profit but I'll bet if they lay off a janitor he gets unemployment benefits. is there an appeal deadline?
OH NO! Phil Steele says that this year ISU has the toughest schedule in all of BCS land.
Don't know who Phil Steele is? He publishes a magazine with every imaginable stat for college football.
Tom
I heard this today.
"When people show you who they are...believe them the first time."
~Maya Angelou :-)
FYI...Creighton isn't part of the Archdiocese of Omaha...or maybe Joe was just making a point about non-profits...I can't ask him because he still in trial.
I was online at the Library of Congress website looking at a photo show that Caitlin has sent to me, and then also at their current exhibitions, and just then Phelan called me from the Library of Congress and she had just viewed the show I was just looking at! I didn't even know she was in D.C.! Amazing.
Phelan just played in Cleveland and now tonight in D.C.
OH! I forgot to mention...I just listed "200 South Durant Street". I'll have it on our website next Monday with photos, etc. The last realty company (Landmark just lost the listing to me, the RELO Co. hired me)they had an open house there last week and Mom and Dad Joe and Mike and I all walked through it, it was alot of fun and Dad had many stories about construction, etc that will be helpful.
I just had a mini-adventure. A lady and her son had stored a bunch of stuff (clothes, papers, etc) in the garage at our parish while she was in a domestic abuse shelter and the YWCA in Omaha arranged for a storage place to hold them for a month while she gets out of town. She's going to Arizona tomorrow. But she had no way to transport the stuff to storage, so I was here and, thinking this is a 10-block jaunt down to the storage place, I said I would load it all up and take them. As we're leaving, she asked if I would stop at the Dollar store so she could get a cold drink. OK, we stopped there and when she came out 15 minutes later she asked if we could drive through Burger King because they hadn't eaten today so I did, and when we got up to the window to pay she handed me her food stamp card, which of course you can't use at Burger King, so I paid for her and her son's lunch (she offered to buy me something to eat!) Then we had to drive to 30th and Farnam to the YWCA to line up the storage deal, which wasn't arranged at all, so we waited for the caseworker and she ended up calling all over to find storage that would let us in today without an appointment and accept the Y's assurance of payment for one month. So we got one at 55th and Center and drove there and the woman at the desk couldn't remember her computer password (!)so that took a while but we finally got a unit so I helped them unload and all the stuff was just chaotic, like she threw everything she could into suitcases and trunks real fast, which I'm sure she did, and a container of leftover Chinese food from Hy-Vee fell out of something after being in the parish garage all week, and she handed it to me and said, "Here, Cathy, you have this, it's very good." I told her I love Chinese food and drove away. It's still in my car outside.
She was an Oriental lady, her son was a huge passive lump and she has extensive experience with storage units.
Sounds like her biggest problem is herself. Was that harsh?
Monica
Well, her biggest problem is that some guy wants to kill her, but how she got there I don't know. Anyway, it was exasperatingly fun.
At least you don't have to cook tonight. Ha!
Monica
Wow Mom, you are one nice lady. That sort of thing is always funny in hindsight.
You ARE one nice lady. Did you not get annoyed with her even a little? I guess if you're going to be charitable you can't complain about it being a pain in the ass. Good Job!
Summer is so great. The kids spend a lot of time in the $10 plastic pool from Menards (which is on its 3rd summer) and I just sit on the deck under the umbrella with my icetea and direct Jude and Sam as to which flowers and plants to water while Finn splashes away. They love it.
I just looked at the Durant St. house online. Fun! Was the kitchen always open the eating area, or were there cabinets there?
p
There were hanging cabinets there.
I would buy that house.
Monica
aanyone want to buy a '95 honda with about $3000 worth of deer damage?
Monica
Oh no! What happened??
I bet someone hit a deer.
Durant house looks way different. The image of the "rock" linolium throughout the first floor is forever impeded in my mind. I remember the pattern and all the different shapes of the psuedo rocks.
For me, the look of the house as we had it worked better than the remodels since. Even the red countertops are better than present.
Now it looks like a mild upgrade from a generic white wall apartment.
No offense to your listing, Mary. Obviously, My opinion is formed by the forming of my formative years giving my opionion this form.
Tom
Oh Deer!
Is everyone all right?
SEan hit a deer coming home from a friend's house. The car is totaled but he is fine. The whole front, right side of the the car is damaged. Door,side panel, headlights,bumper and windshield. It's not worth fixing. Poor deer! There was hair in the glass and poop smeared along the side. It's pretty impressive damage. There's bits of glass in the back seat even.
Monica
The house is pretty generic looking now. But isn't that what buyers want? It would be easy to personalize it. Pull up carpet. Paint. Etc.. It has good bones. And great floor plan for a family. I think that back entry was perfect for a family with kids. YOu could dump everything there and it wasn't spread all over the kitchen and family room.
Monica
So Desmond - what is Kansas going to do?
The University of Kansas fight song will be revised this fall to account for longtime border rival Nebraska's move to the Big Ten next year and Colorado's upcoming departure for the Pac-10.
"I'm A Jayhawk" mentions six foes from the old Big Eight -- all but Iowa State. Kansas is the only school with cause to tweak its fight song after this summer's conference realignment.
Nebraska's and Colorado's songs don't reference other schools.
The KU Alumni Association is holding a contest for students to come up with new lyrics to replace those mentioning Nebraska and Colorado. The winner will be announced at homecoming, Oct. 23.
um....imbedded not inpeded. It was early.
Tom
Ha - caught you pulling a Sarah Palin there, Tom. Go ahead - get creative with the language!
In anticipation of the college football season:
http://desmondlavelle.posterous.com/brotherhood-of-the-traveling-belt
Des, I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing yet- but what I've read is so funny.
Oh, and I'm glad Sean is OK.
115 heat index today. Stevo is over at the house removing an asbestos vent pipe, dressed head to toe in long sleeves and throwawy jeans with a respirator. I'm sure he's having fun. A plumbing inspector casually mentioned that it's going to have to go, and he wants to get rid of it before someone tells him he has to hire some 300-dollar-an-hour special asbestos abatement contractor or something. I'm going home at noon to finish cleaning up the back yard and patio before the air conditioning repairman comes. Long night last night.
You should have stayed at our house last night Mom, we had fruit-covered waffles for dinner. Come over tonight if that repairman doesn't make it.
TravelCenters of America (TA) rose by 68 cents, or 25.9%, to $3.32 after the company reported second-quarter earnings of 7 cents a share on revenue of $1.5 billion, compared to the lone analyst target that forecasted a loss of 82 cents a share and revenue of $1.4 billion. Volume topped 500,000 shares, compared to the average daily share volume of 91,000.
The coaches call Liam "Iowa" at football practice.
Tom
I bet he loves it.
that's cute.
monica
Liam is one of those kids who loves to be "whipped into shape." After a summer of not doing much he shows up slow and pudgy.
You ask him how conditioning week went (and they do grind them down) he says "awesome. it was fun."
Tom
You know....an under reported news story is the prospect of gerrymandering when all these republicans come into office after the elections. Using new census figures and new votes they can shape districts in their favor for years to come.
Tom
Look at this fancy new blog page!
Monica
http://pinktentacle.com/2010/08/vintage-tokyo-subway-manner-posters/
cool vintage tokyo subway posters.
p
I like this new blog page, too!
Hey, I think it might be time to do a yearly update of addresses and phone numbers. I volunteer to do this, although I know Ed is good and organizing all this info too! Anyway, if you would like me to get out a new list, email me your info or just put it on here. Address, phones, emails, grown up kids' info as well. Or if someone else wants to put it all together, that is fine with me. My email is ellen.jayjack@gmail.com
I meant Ed is good at organizing*
Caroline has started smiling and imitating faces. It's so cute. She sticks out her tongue or tries to click it in her mouth if you do it to her. We have a lot of fun play time with this, but she has also formed a tight bond with Mama. She will hardly let Andy hold her this week even. Yesterday we were looking in the mirror, then she started to cry when she saw me inthe mirror because she thought I was in front of her and not holding her (At least that is how I interpreted that cry).
The Kossuth County Fair was a success (we have a booth)...they really are bringing in alot of people with the free gate. Lisa and her girls came on Friday, Mom made it twice. Joe brought her once for lunch at the Catholic stand and they walked around, and Lisa also took her to lunch and they walked thru ALL the showbarns and did the midway with the girls.
Dad took the opportunity to not attend the fair.
This blog design makes me feel like I'm driviing on the Autobahn with broken windshield wipers. Scary fun.
Bold new look of this blog is worthy of a Straub Blog.
Tom
We saw "Inception" tonight. We liked it. The complexity and layers of reality in it might not appeal to everyone (and it's LONG)but the story and effects were great, and with good actors.
Saw "Dinner For Schmucks". Funny - not brilliant humor but you will leave laughing.
Tom
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