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Burger King Whopping Disappointment
The other day when we were out looking at the Iowa City Sculptors Showcase, we got pretty hungry around 1:00 pm. We still had a couple of stops to make out to Mercer Park and Scott Park, but we needed nourishment. Sena has wanted to try the new Burger King Whopper Your Way or get…
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New 2026 Sculptors Showcase in Iowa City!
We got out and about on August 25, 2026 to see the new sculptures in Iowa City! All 8 of them are up but most of them don’t have artist nameplates yet. The two exceptions were Tim Adams striking giant green and purple flower at Riverfront Crossings Park and mine, The Waving Man, at Scott…
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Roadkill Story and the Circle of Life
This is not about the TV series. This is just a short note on finding out the right agency to contact if you find a dead animal either in the street or at the side of the road. It’s nothing spectacular, but it was a new one on me. I took my usual walk down…
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Reblogging Parody vs Satire on Old X-File Show
I’m reblogging this partly because I think it’s still funny and partly because I could no longer find the company on the web which called itself “ALT FUELS, Inc.” and used the slogan “Waste is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” I’m pretty sure I didn’t hallucinate that. After looking around a little further I found…
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Reblogging “Hit Them Back with Love”
I ran across a blog I posted on August 24, 2024 back when we were staying in a hotel waiting for our house to be built. John Heim (aka Big Mo) was the DJ on KCCK back then (Ed English is doing a great job nowadays!) and played a tune called “Hit ‘Em Back” which…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: “The Raven”
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” The 1935 movie “The Raven” starred Bela Lugosi as the evil surgeon, Dr. Richard Vollin and Boris Karloff as the equally evil Edmond Bateman who team up in this film loosely based on the story by the writer…
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Remember That Single Leg Sit to Stand Exercise?
I got to thinking about the recent remark I made about how many repetitions you should be able to do the single leg sit to stand exercise (10 to 15 reps per leg, hah!). Well, I got to wondering if I could do something like that. I looked on the web for the number of…
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The Little Ironies
I scheduled this morning’s early post about the Iowa State Fair Cribbage Tournament yesterday afternoon. Well after that, later in the evening Sena told me she read a news story about Rusty Martin, a former Iowa state senator, who had Stage 5 Alzheimer’s Disease and traveled to Switzerland to end his life via the assisted-dying…
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Cribbage Tournament at the Iowa State Fair This Year!
Hey, there’ll be the annual Iowa State Fair Cribbage Tournament on August 23, 2026. It’s on the last day of the Fair. The time and rules are below: We’ve never been to the Iowa State Fair, much less the annual cribbage tournament. According to a Facebook post, there are usually over 200 players who enter…
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Update on the Little Jumping Frog
Last night, Sena never heard the little frog jumping against the window well glass. But this morning Sena surprised herself and the little frog who has somehow gotten in and out of our window well a couple of times (supposedly). It was hiding in the mulch under the tree in our front yard. Sena was…
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