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Iowa State Fair Cribbage Tournament and More!
I just have a few remarks about the Iowa State Fair Cribbage Tournament which took place today. I don’t have the results and it could be a week before anything is announced about the winner. Here are the rules: Note the $1 entry fee and you have to bring your own cribbage board, cards, and…
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Big Mo Pod Show: “Spiritual IV”
I’m trying to figure out what the meaning of the title is of this week’s Big Mo Pod Show. It’s “Spiritual IV” and I looked at all of his past pod shows looking for Spiritual I-III. I can’t find them. The other thing I noticed about the pod show is that the theme of many…
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Mourning Dove Toe Deformities Revisited
I recently got my first and only comment on a blog post I posted on March 30, 2019 about toeless mourning doves which were visiting our backyard deck of a house in which we lived previously. I also found an article published about the issue later that year in December of 2019, which is about…
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Cone Flower Feast
Sena got a very cool video of a goldfinch pair feeding on our cone flowers in the back yard. They were oblivious to everything around them. They were almost oblivious to each other! It was a peaceful scene.
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Patio Tomatoes Did Not Turn Red!
OK, so Sena picked all the patio tomatoes and most of them didn’t turn red, especially the slicers. She’s done with growing vegetables. I saw an article about why tomatoes don’t turn red and it makes sense. The featured image shows the patio tomatoes in the plastic bucket for comparison with the red store-bought tomatoes.…
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Big Mo Pod Show: The Yellow Butane Curse and Other Fun Things
I got off my schedule last week on listening to the Big Mo blues show, but as it turns out, he was gone last Friday. I heard last night’s blues show and heard Stevie Ray Vaughn’s Riviera Paradise. So, of course that was not on the list of songs for the pod show today, but…
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Pride or Rhetoric? What Would Dr. Melvin P. Sikes Say?
I noticed the headlines about the DEI flap at The University of Iowa, the one with the official apparently spilling the beans about University of Iowa’s DEI program not going away despite being illegal while maybe being unaware of being filmed. I’m not going to retell the story. However, it does remind me of a…
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Success of Johnson County Civil Mental Health Court in its First Year
I’ve been looking for other ways that Iowa addresses mental illness and its impact on homelessness and other adverse outcomes since my last post on the issue. It turns out that, despite Iowa ranking 51st out of all U.S. states for the low number of psychiatric beds according to the Treatment Advocacy Center statistics (in…
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It Takes a Village to Tackle Homelessness: What’s Iowa Doing?
After I read Dr. Dawson’s post today “More on homelessness and violence as a public health problem,” it got me thinking about what the situation on homelessness of people with mental illness and substance use disorder is here in Iowa. First, I looked at the 2024 Iowa Homelessness Needs Assessment, which is a thorough report…
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Extreme Heat Warning for I-80 Corridor
There’s an extreme heat warning from the National Weather Service for much of the I-80 corridor today and tomorrow. Heat indices of 95-110+ are expected. Cooling Centers in Iowa City, IA Cooling Centers in Coralville, IA Consider donating to the Iowa City Shelter House Beat the Heat drive!
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