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Just a couple random thought starters today... Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley died on the same date. He was 42 and she was 74 at the time of their deaths, both on August 16th. My Wisconsin Trail Pass sticker came today. In all their powers that be the folks in Madison chose Arctic Cat...

Been really busy all week at the Fly-In in Oshkosh, not much time for pictures but I can share a couple. B 25 used in both Europe and Pacific theaters during WWII. This was the plane they used in the Doolittle Raid, flown off the deck of the carrier Hornet. Two things in this photo, the Staff...

One of our family members that travels for work sent us the following email. I don't think she'd mind if I shared it. On my flight from Appleton to Detroit, I got to sit next to a Korean War vet. Before we took off the pilot announced that we had a vet on the plane and thanked him for his...

In my continuing effort to liven up the forum here I'm posting a link to a story I'd never heard of until finding it today. So...to find out if you remember the Woman in the Yugo click on the link and read for yourself...

So here's my attempt to wake up the Forum from it's long summer snooze. Summer is moving along faster than an Eight Legged Dog and here in Wisconsin there's a couple of events you may want to circle on your calendar. Coming up July 23rd through the 29th is the AirVenture Fly-In in Oshkosh. The...

One afternoon a lawyer was riding along in his big limousine. When he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. He asked one man, "Why are you eating grass ?" "We don't have any money for food," the poor man replied...

We're going to be adding one of these products this summer, just haven't decide which one yet. The Leaf Guard requires all new gutters, they're larger to accommodate the topper and the Leaf Filter attaches to the existing gutters. One of our neighbors added the Leaf Guards last year and swears...

A week ago we were hunkered down with a blizzard not seen in these parts since 1888. Today the temp is near 60, the streets are dry and we took the Spyder for a one hour ride. Go figure.... Wisconsin weather indeed! Just around town and a few country roads, felt good to be out in the sun and...

John, I thought you would like to see this. I hadn't heard of this before and thought it worthwhile to share. The video is worth a look as well. Gary http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Snowrollers--480256493.html

Looks like Wisconsin in general and maybe Green Bay & the Fox River Valley were ground zero for this storm. Most of the schools here in the valley are closed tomorrow, most of the churches cancelled services on Sunday. I haven't checked but I suspect Walmart is probably open, the grocery and...

This post kind of dovetails with the thread about the "end of snowmobiling". I found these numbers on the IMSA website/International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association. If you're looking for a thread with more back-biting, complaining, wrong side of the trail & no hand signals, you're going to...

The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded the squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will. At the Baptist church the squirrels had taken an...

Here's a story I ran across while looking for something else. A story that the locals of the Keweenaw probably have heard but for those that live elsewhere, maybe not. Click on the links that take you back to a stormy night in November of 1926...

When his son refused to get a job, the father insisted he join the Marine Corps. At the physical, the Doctor directed the reluctant recruit to read the eye chart across the room."What chart doc?" the young man asked. "The one on the wall!" the doctor said. "What wall?" said the young man...

I'm not sure the best place to post this on the forum, it did make me smile when I saw it, so here goes. This is a video which contains a very famous photo of the men that built the Empire State building. The photo is of the group enjoying their lunch break and I'll let the video tell their...

At the risk of starting another Oil Thread (God Help Us) I've got a question to throw out there. I do the oil changes on our vehicles and after purchasing the oil for the wife's car I noticed that it's labeled "high mileage" (in small print) but her car is only a year old with about 12K miles...

Yesterday I was buying a 2 large bags of Purina dog chow at Target. I was about to check out when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. Since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably...

These are from our annual Club Ride that we do every year about this time. We choose the destination on snow conditions and available lodging for our group. This year we were based out of Spooner in Wisconsin's Washburn county. This first one is what I call the "Grand Daddy of all Snow Plows."...