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Last Day of Cow Week and Today is National Donut Day!
It’s the last day of Cow Week and Mike Waters is doing his wake-up call this morning. And he announced that today is National Donut Day! I had no idea. He’s wondering whether there are any bakeries in Eastern Iowa that could get a shout-out for it. I had to look this up on the…
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Cow Cap for Cow Week & Other Mysteries
I went to the mall yesterday and just for the heck of it went to a cap shop (no, not the cop shop; I was a good boy!) and bought a cow cap! The store is called Lids Locker Room for obvious reasons. I told the salesman why I wanted it, filling him on the…
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Cow Week Wednesday with Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 Trip to the Dairy Farm Wormhole!
This is day 3 of Cow Week with Mike Waters Wake Up Call radio show on KOKZ 105.7. There’s a Sci-Fi angle on the whole cow thing today. Mike’s really hard to keep up with, but today there was this incident involving a cow flying through his window with a note with instructions on it.…
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Thoughts on the Reblog of Thoughts on the National Spelling Bee: Implications for Cow Week?
So, WordPress is telling me that I should post something on June 3, 2026 because I posted something on the same date in 2022. We’d never seen a spelling bee competition before and it was gripping. And then I thought of that Chick-Fil-A commercial spelling bee with the “word” Eat Mor Chikin. Has anyone else…
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Cow Week Stuff from Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7
Hey, it’s Cow Week from Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 and he’s hanging out at New Day Dairy GuestBarn in Clarksville. Remember, it’s National Dairy Month. He’s taking requests for tunes that have cowbell sounds in them and substituting the word “cow” or some synonym for that in song titles and whatnot. One caller suggested “I…
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Further Thoughts About Guns Reblog
WordPress is tracking my blogs (it’s not paranoia!) and I can’t tell you how helpful it is to see what I wrote years ago and how I and the world has changed since then. What I notice about this post from June 2, 2022 is that the web link to Gun Policy dot org doesn’t…
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Connections on the Compass of Life
I read an interesting article in the Iowa Capital Dispatch a couple days ago entitled “Iowa communities look to fill gaps in statewide mental health care” by Kadin Luhmann. The fascinating main story was about a relatively new mental health care initiative taking place in my hometown, Mason City, Iowa. It led to a number…
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Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 New Day Dairy Show and Sena Rocks the Dairy Dance!
So, it’s the first day of National Dairy Month and Mike Waters started his KOKZ 105.7 radio show right on time. He chronicled his morning at New Day Dairy Guest Barn in Clarksville, Iowa, including milking cows as Dairy Man Dan and his wife Lynn coached him about life on a dairy farm. Sena and…
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Okay It’s National Dairy Month!
Well, today is the first day of National Dairy Month and the biggest event I know of so far is the KOKZ 105.7 New Day Dairy Weekend Getaway where you and your loved ones will be chained to hard wooden stools and required to milk 900 cows every morning for the entire month! Sound good?…
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Annual University of Iowa Psychiatry Dept. Kickball Torture Scheduled in June!
The announcement for the annual Dept. of Psychiatry Kickball game just came out. I think that was also the day the trees in our backyard outlot got heat shock and dropped a lot of their leaves. It was in the high 80s. So, the event is scheduled for June 29, 2026 at 6:00 pm at…
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