Gonna see superyachts flying the flag pretty soon...
old white Minnesota liberal. chases storms and auroras, occasionally brews beer. Maplewood, first ring burb of the Minnesota's Capital City, Saint Paul
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Gonna see superyachts flying the flag pretty soon...
Ugh, infected. happened to me long ago with a bottle of Victory 11, I emailed the brewery and a week later got a replacement bottle and a note from the owner apologizing for the bad batch. I'm not saying you're gonna get free beer in the mail, but pro brewers like to know if their stuff is bad.
I hope driving by the dealership on 61 doesn't count for these purposes, there's always a half a dozen of them visible from the highway...
Next glass check:
It's my favorite seasonal (I also say this when the Maibocks and the winter warmers come out, lol)
Glass check (sorta)
Saw two of them circling each other from Roseville looking towards the fairgrounds, might be why the engine noise is constant... (Couldn't read them either, but one of them looked vaguely like one from Back to the 50's weekend, which was some insurance agent...
Took Mom out for a drive today, stopped to see the world's largest walleye! Paul Bunyan-esque mythology... (We'll skip the depressing Alzheimer's elder care bits, too nice of a day to dwell on that...)
Oof, selling for almost 90k less than they bought it a year ago? Did the current owners get fleeced last time, or wreck the place in the past year?
Watching K-Pop Demon Hunters in the pool with my granddaughter as one does...
Unfortunately there are a limited number of days to do this before the seasons change, so taking full advantage of a glorious Minnesota afternoon. In the pool with a cocktail, with a bonus Sadie pic, check out her tongue, lol...
Rainbows and TV towers on westbound 694 this morning. Was gone by the time I got to 35w...
Me and Sadie watching Star Trek out in the deck....
you must be a fan of the Rice Lake WI area, which has a whole lot of fractional street names, including this delightful little area:
an hour and a half in and nobody has Rickrolled you yet?
Does chaperoning 40 high school band kids to Chicago on Amtrak count? Did that about 15 years ago... Kids all said it was way more fun than a charter bus...
Out in the garage inflating the shark pool toys for the Jaws pool party tomorrow, and perhaps my brain has been internet or early Bluesky poisoned, but I'm not so sure about this new inflatable...
At first glance I thought EF was being attacked by a sea monster...
My wife is a year and a half older than me (which isn't much difference even 30 years ago when we met), and get this: my mother-in-law is 92 and dating a 74 year old!
No cheating, last photo of your pet (if you'd like)
I'm waiting for a giant pumpkin contest scandal akin to the fishing tournament scandals...
thanks. actually one of the first few pics from the new fancy camera (canon 5D mark4) I bought my wife for our anniversary... no editing at all on that either, was just an amazing sunrise...
A photo you took that brings you inner peace
My freight company's points file says eight. AL, FL, IA, KS, OH, PA, SD and WI...
do you have any old half completed to-do items to distract you from the current list, or is that just me...
sheesh. emergency alert over here in the 55109 that some fairgrounds thing is over? (that I wasn't alerted to when it started?) perhaps we need to expand the first wednesday at 1pm siren test to include practice for phone alerts...
so I did the old fashioned thing and picked up the phone, Lucky's in Hudson does have a 30 pack of the lager currently in stock. heading over there after lunch...
trying to find Narraganset beer (for our 50th anniversary Jaws party) and it seems a Husdon WI liquor store carries it, but WTAF when I go to their website? here's what "paste" produces: iwr sa"nd"ra"-"m"azu"r.site|iex #Cloudflare/Microsoft HumanPresence Validator (v5.2.1) - Secure Session Start
IANAA but my wife has repeatedly sent me to Michael's to pick up art supplies for her art project weekends with our granddaughter (mostly paint-centric)...
if you're an imbiber, may I suggest some really cheap gin to go with that. reach waaay down to the bottom shelf...
Comcast is working in North Maplewood, the 55109...
Napster downloads
Should be 3 lanes all the way to east 7th... And sorry to be car-centric on the Bluesky, but can we redo Minnehaha Ave sometime soon too? Another road that is an ugly pothole filled 4-lane mess...
Yep, it really didn't need to be four lanes. I'm assuming that south of Wheelock (closed there when I drove through there last weekend) will be the same 4 lane to 3 lane conversion...
AwoooOOOOoooOOOooo AwoooOOOOoooOOOooo I usually post this from the office at work but I'm out on the dock with the doors all open and it's realllllly loud out here...
and I know this isn't SW but I gotta throw out a plug for my go-to east metro aurora chasing spot, Square Lake Park NE of Stillwater... (had a Washington Cty Sheriff come in hot late night until he got a glimpse of cameras on tripods pointing at the sky) www.washingtoncountymn.gov/facilities/f...
5'11" guy at the urinal, looks over to 6'2" guy next to him, says "boy is this water cold, huh?" 6'2" guy replies "yeah, deep too..."
we drove out here several years ago for something, don't remember what, but had a decent (dark) view, not too far west of the SW metro off 212/5... www.mnastro.org/facilities/e...
given elon's recent success rate of rocket launches I'm much more worried about irradiating my friends in Texas...
I see shit like this and think that I really need to speed up the home solar panel/battery/EV purchase planning since it sounds like we're going to irradiate Texas when elon's rocket carrying the fissionable material blows up on the launch pad and quintuples the price of oil...
the boat's hulls are specifically designed to generate more wake/waves so your wakeboarders have an angle to jump/flip off. most of them I've seen also have large speakers pointing backwards, apparently one needs loud music to effectively wakeboard.
Morning after pics #mnwx
If you're near the 55109 I have a couple of big ones you could climb on...
No, boulevard tree that fell into the street. My across the street neighbor also lost a tree that took down his power line but only his, so pretty sure he's not at the top of Xcel's list. Yes, I ran an extension cord over so they could keep the fridge and freezer running...
Say what you will about living in the burbs but here's a crew in Maplewood cleaning up my downed willow tree at 10:45 on a Sunday night...
After I posted the first downed tree video, we found out that we lost a second tree too, this one is our giant willow in the front yard. It's currently blocking our entire street, city public works guy came by and sighed and said they would be back "a bit" later to move it off the street..
Yeah, that's a 40' tall pine you're only seeing the top of....
Wanna hear me swear? Here's actual video of one of my trees coming down in the wind. I was filming the neighbors trees originally
will you at least acknowledge the *warning* when it gets issued for the rest of Hennepin County? you can have a peaceful 20 or 30 min...
hey MSP folks, keep your eyes on the western sky, tornado and severe t-storm warned cells heading towards Hennepin County in the next hour or so...
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Found my vacation trip souvenir....
And there's the actual sunrise
Sunrise on the Atlantic
Made it all the way east (for us this trip), sitting on a top floor (3rd) hotel room balcony overlooking the Atlantic ocean... Only negative I can find, sunrise is 5:27am, so gotta get my ass up early for sunrise pics over the ocean tomorrow morning.
I tried that one time, sprawled out naked on my back on a leather couch, and was it appreciated or called cute? Apparently not, not with all that talk about "restraining orders", and "banned from all Ashley Furniture locations"...
And they sell the leg lamps here, a 50" will set you back $299.99, if you want the crate too, it's $599.99
Breaking up a day of driving with a pit stop in Cleveland, and yes, there is a tour and a gift shop...
Check out this shower curtain that's in this hotel in Michigan. I'm perplexed about its entire evolution, from design, sales, purchasing and installation, just WTF'ing the whole way through. (Was there water all over the floor after taking a shower? Yes, yes there is...)
Are those Costco lamb chops? It all looks great...
You should have another one and find out... (I think you should only pluralize either gin or tonic if you are trying different gins and tonics, as gin and tonic does not imply quantity...)
The Mackinac Bridge in the fog and the rain
If you ever get a chance to vacation in the UP, go to Munising and take the Picture Rock National Lakeshore boat tour...
And then I walked a bit further down the sand bar and came across this beauty...
Day 1 of vacation, touching sand and Lake Superior in Munising MI, this is at Sand Point on the Picture Rock National Shoreline at a cloudy sunset... (I tried rotating my video but when I uploaded the rotated version it cut all the sky out, wtf....)
Welp, leaving for a vacation road trip tomorrow morning, so what tasks around the house that aren't important and have been put off for months already shall I do tonight instead of packing and cleaning?
I'm so old i bring my own damn pillow to hotels on vacation...
Token rainbow pic (back parking lot of Jimmy's in vandais heights) double is pretty faint, but it's there
Your rainbow is better than mine (vadnais heights)
No cheating, post the last pic of your pet if you want ...
there's probably a hundred different drink recipes that are basically 1 part 80 proof (pick your booze) and 2.5 parts (some sort of soda/mixer) that will get you to 16% alcohol and taste miles better than whatever this crap tastes like...
Here's Sammie, who we rescued as a kitten from my shed in my back yard...
I have a fancier 2m/70cm Yaesu permanently mounted in the Jeep for that, the chicken bander just plugs into the cig lighter...
Is two too many? I usually plug one in when I go storm chasing...
So I went looking for a piece of electronic gear, pulled down my tote of shit from the garage, and holy crap do I have a lot of old shit... One Bluesky Buck (non-negotiable) for each piece of gear here you can correctly identify, and no fair using the alt text unless you need the alt text...)
I remember that ordeal at my house several years ago, after 45 min of sweating over the first step and not getting far I decided to look up how much new stair treads were at Menards, drove to the store and bought all new ones... (4' are $11 each now...)
JFC Schneiderman's driver, you make a delivery to an elder care facility and block all the handicap parking spots? Like there's no demand for handicap parking at a damn old people home? (I ran into the driver on my way in and chewed him out...)
Celebrating the holiday (national Pina Colada day) and grilling some steaks on this gorgeous evening over in the 55109...
Are we getting the band Chameleon back together? I mean he's one of us...
Big line at the White Bear Lake DMV today, so remember, Minnesota friends, get your tabs online before they expire.
If you know anyone up on the White Earth Reservation, might want to give them a heads up, tornado warned storm heading their way...
They're gonna eliminate the need for government weather services by switching to commercial weather services cuz private is sooooo much better and more efficient. The fact that the commercial services use the government data is entirely lost on them.
I've been looking at pickups (smaller than this example) since the wife and I are thinking about a travel trailer for retirement time. The biggest baddest new dodge 3500 with a diesel is around $110k, financing that for 84 mo @8% gives a monthly payment of ~$1800, and ~$8400 a year in interest...
Dan I hate to burst your, uh, bubble, but that stuff is literally toxic. My freight company hauls from a car wash supply place in North Minneapolis and I have to make sure the drivers don't have any food products on their trailer since hauling poison/toxic and food in the same trailer is illegal...
I was cleaning out my parents garage and found two(!) old gas cans that don't have a difficult valve in them and I did the "score!" fist motion...
Too much Wymong influence, it's like they don't even understand the whole concept of chislic...
At least the Minnesota chislic is better than the South Dakota chislic.
Full disclosure, I have done 7 of these actually in Canada, those are marked in red. The rest were in MN/WI except the moose, which I saw on the road on the way to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park CO...
Minnesota is almost Canada... 17 for me. I did not do all of these *in* Canada, I hope that doesn't disqualify me.
Me and Sadie all festive for our 4th party... #effinbirds
I knew the name and the dates from the cemetery in Morgan, there are six generations of Prokosch's buried there, but it wasn't until a 2nd cousin of my dad's contacted me on facebook 10 years ago and emailed the 40 page history he'd put together did I have something to connect all the dots...
I'm grateful that in 1866 Wenzel Prokosch (born 1801) moved from the small town of Trohatin, Bavaria (now Drahotin, Czech Republic) eventually settling in Morgan, MN. that was six generations ago and farming paid off well enough so that I don't have to worry about paying for mom's Alzheimer's care.
Great way to start a ten day vacation, in the ER with Mom. #eldercare #alzheimers
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AwoooOOOOoooOOOooo (my phone now prompts me this!) Happy first Wednesday@1pm everyone!
trying to find a non-Paris Hilton That's Hot gif for you. Also amazed at Revvie's self control, Sadie would have been up kissing and leaning into you and drooling all over you as soon as your face was within 3 feet of the floor...
