Action Tire Repair

I'm always a little surprised when I get an email from what I believe is a stranger from a far off land and then I find out they grew up in Columbus and read my blog.Then I find out that this is his place over that dudes shoulder.   I think they could use a tree.  Yea - John Heidke lives in Paradise Valley and that is John Mayer (and friend).  His grandparents owned Heidke's Sweet Shop and the Columbia Inn now the Capri.  ...

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What is that red stuff - and rain? Where?

Unless you are living in a cave you have seen scenes of planes dropping red stuff onto fires out west.  OH, that is flame retardant everyone says.  But WHAT is it!Well - mostly water - nothing SUPER special. Water is a fire retardant right? It's also 10% fertilizer (ammonia phosphate and sulfate ions) and the red is iron oxide for color.And here I thought it was just some major cool chemicals or something.  Water puts out fire, the...

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Gotta run

Got some portraits to take care of this morning in Madison so cant spend a lot of time.Came in 2nd in the Amber contest - I expected to not win since my Amber was unique with a cinnamon flavor from what I believe was the Crystal hops which is viewed as the most pungent of the new triploid Hallertau family of hops.  I like it but . . .it's an Amber  zzzzzzzzzz-----------------------------------Finally watched the 2 hour premier of season...

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Congrats to Caleb and Alison

More on these two later! And no Caleb is not sleeping.  Actually I interrupted their score keeping.  Sorry guys.   Went to the Brewer game last night with Mike, The Postman-2 and Elwood.  We had those free BP tickets so our seats were not the best.  Except for the fact we could not see center or right field they were GREAT!!  Actually they were the worst seats I have ever had a Miller Park. So after Elwood and I when...

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Paint By Numbers?

Is there a "Talk Like You're Tweeting Day" yet?  If there isn't I think we need to create one. #ridiculous    This would mean that since the average word is 5.1 characters and you can use 144 characters in a tweet including spaces each comment can be only about 22 words. #nothingelsetosay-------------- SO - tonight I'm going to the Brewer game #losers with The Postman-2, Mike and Elwood.   Should be fun.  My last game was...

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What a Weekend

Yikes - no sleep for me this weekend.I've been freakishly busy this morning with some very high strung publishers from the east coast!  More on that later (below).   Saturday I had the Agora Art Fair in Fitchburg which as many people were saying - Is as good as Art Fair on the Square, but without the hassle. Yea - the tents go over the horizon!  And the quality of the art is outstanding!   Personally I had my best show to...

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"The Day the Clown Cried"

I was on Channel 3 yesterday - 5 seconds!After my doctor visit I decided to take a run out to the Pope Farm Conservancy to take a look at the sunflower field and while I was there Channel 3 show up and low and behold, they filmed me taking the below photo.   So in the last 5 days my cat has been on Channel 3 AND me!   I've been working on my new website and one of the features will be the ability to do this!  In fact I can have people...

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More Indy and other stuff in my head.

Sooooooo - I guess the huge storms that were lighting up my phone last night with warnings . . .never happened?-------------------------------Placed a few "fun" wagers today.Green Bay OVER 10.5 wins.  They should not lose a home game this year so all they have to do is win 3 away games.Philly Eagles UNDER 7.5 wins - Hideous schedule home AND especially road. They only won 4 games last year and I believe they have their top three receivers out...

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Band of Brothers - USS Indianapolis

I had the honor and privilege to attend the last reunion of the survivors of the USS Indianapolis this past weekend and every time I go to these reunions I gain more knowledge.This being the last reunion it was special and very teary eyed.   As you all know my father in law is one of the last two Marines surviving.  One Navy Commander called these survivors "The Greatest of the Greatest Generation". In attendance was Hunter Scott who when...

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