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Birds at Bob’s
Sparta, WI, August 2025 We stopped at Kate’s dad’s house to visit and look at his computer. Windows 10 support was ending, and his internet service was saying he was going to need a PIN to get to his email. After looking into it, we found out that his computer had the operating system upgraded…
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Spar Varnish and Its Many Uses
Sparta, WI, August 2025 Earlier this year, mom asked if John and I could look at the front door. She was hoping we could rescue it from water damage. Ken (the handyman that helps mom) said the door only needed sanding and varnishing. Mom’s house was built in the mid 60s. All the doors are…
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Dad Needed a Flue Shot?
Sparta, WI, September 2025 Or maybe his Flue was just Shot! Pops used to have a wood burning stove to heat the house and separate one to heat the garage. A few years ago, Dad replaced the house furnace for a propane furnace with AC. The garage wood furnace was left in place. Dad called…
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Paint once, then again, and hope for no streaks!
Sparta, WI, Aug. & Sept 2025 While we were in Wisconsin, one of the many goals was to replace the seam caulk, scrape lose paint and paint 2 sides of Mom’s house. Originally, I was thinking the front and end of the house. (We did the other end in 2024.) Once we were home and…
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Family Farm from Long Ago
Sparta, Wisconsin, Month and Year unknown In 2024, John and I visited Helen. Helen has pictures of the family farm from before I was around. What I love is that the railroad tracks are still in the picture. In the second picture, you can see the rows of trees that line the driveway. The trees…
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Screw the Whales, Save the Laptops!
Sparta, WI, September 2025 The Good We helped Bob get a new computer, and we helped Brenda with her new computer. Steve has been having some computer trouble recently, so he asked for some help too. It turns out that his computer was stalling out while he was using it, which was causing anger management…
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Family History Fun
September 2025 I have been having fun visiting the family and hanging out. When I was backing up Mom and Dad’s photos, I thought it would be fun to create a blog with some family photos. I believe the photos were taken in 2010 based on the file or folder name. I’m not sure if…
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Time to Make the Donuts!
Sparta, WI, August 2025 Time to buy the donuts would be closer, but they are tires, not donuts. A diet does strange things to your mind… mmmm, glazed all weather radials… Some of the pictures are not perfectly focused, but they are good enough to see what is going on. If you were not aware,…
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Remember When!
As a kid most of my aunts and uncles on my dad side of the family live locally. Usually once a year, the out of towners would come in. I remember the large get togethers and all the fun. Especially since my cousins were of similar age. When I was at my dad’s house, he…
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Family Time!
Dad and I had a family fun day! We started the day at the Family Restaurant having fish. Road the countryside, enjoyed some time at the casino and finally made our way to Cameron’s house. Ryker likes to show off his gymnastics skills The selfie didn’t work out soo great with Pfluger. Ended up with…