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Post by billhammond on Aug 16, 2024 14:18:47 GMT -5
The latest Mecum car auction is in Monterey, and the vehicles are especially high-end. More Lamborghinis than pickups!
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Post by billhammond on Aug 16, 2024 8:38:24 GMT -5
I remember those speakers from our Baraboo gathering long ago -- amazing sound, but don't they weigh a ton? Yes, all solid cherry wood, 60 lbs apiece Hello, dolly!
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 21:51:35 GMT -5
Been distracted and late with greetings, but there are still a couple of birthday hours left--so make the most of it. I'll bet that prime rib makes a nice sandwich. (Any horseradish around?) At Obb's in St. Paul, no horseradish was needed, but for future sammiches at home, I am all set with sauce packets and proper buns.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 20:45:45 GMT -5
PBS is running the Simon & Garfunkel Central Park concert as a fundraiser vehicle -- what a fabulous show that was. Paul playing an Ovation!
On edit, Artie's voice is a miracle of nature.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 17:24:24 GMT -5
Prime rib was fantastic, and I brought two-thirds of it home, as well as some veggie beef soup and half a baked tater. Plus I got a free birfday glass of wine!
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 13:28:34 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Bill. We hope you do something special to celebrate. I just discovered that it's prime rib night at one of my favorite saloons -- that might be my splurge.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 10:54:44 GMT -5
my digital 8-channel PA system w/Daedalus speakers. I remember those speakers from our Baraboo gathering long ago -- amazing sound, but don't they weigh a ton?
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 9:41:55 GMT -5
HAPPY BILLDAY! It's ready and it raring! (Todd slipped in a little Chevy V6. It goes!) I appreciate the gesture and the effort, guys, but I'm really not a truck guy. Something sleek that handles well, please.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 9:29:06 GMT -5
Locally based 24/7 classical station KSJN is playing one of my favorite pieces of music, "Capriccio Italien," by one Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. So wonderfully melodic and stirring.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 8:27:52 GMT -5
Bappy Hirthday, good sir! Is this the milestone 60 you mentioned recently, or is that still off in the future?
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Post by billhammond on Aug 14, 2024 19:12:26 GMT -5
Onion News
WASHINGTON — Lambasting the Democratic vice presidential candidate across social media platforms, J.D. Vance reportedly accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday of stolen valor for wearing an apron that said “Grill Master.” “Tim Walz is a liar — he has never attained the rank of grill master,” said Vance, attacking Walz for misrepresenting his culinary record in what he claimed was an affront to the real, brave grill masters who wielded spatulas every day. “I know for a fact that Tim Walz was indoors, in the kitchen, when he wore that grill master apron. I wonder, has he ever been on a real deck? I heard he even abandoned his barbecue when the ice cream truck went by.” At press time, Vance was fending off criticism that he himself had only ever used a George Foreman electric grill.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 14, 2024 8:32:01 GMT -5
3 hours and I will be a newly married man! And with new slacks, to boot!
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 21:20:02 GMT -5
Speaking of two-wheeled conveyances, I ran across this factoid today:
1921 After completing his first year of college at UW–Madison, Charles Lindbergh embarks on the first leg of what will be a more than 3,000-mile, seven-week ride on the Excelsior Series 20R motorcycle he bought in his hometown of Little Falls, Minn., a year earlier.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 20:58:53 GMT -5
This paragraph amazed me:
By the end of the day, 320 racers completed the DAMn out of 395 starters, the highest finish rate ever, according to Raygor. The youngest to roll out from Gary, 11-year-old Molly Ehlers, pedaled 121 miles of the route, a feat her parents dubbed “The Day Across Half of Minnesota.”
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 20:36:26 GMT -5
"Grand Mound" makes me giggle.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 19:18:55 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 16:06:19 GMT -5
What year was that gathering?
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 16:03:22 GMT -5
Hey Mr. Hammond...didn't the Duck L'Orange guy have an Eau Claire connection with you like living on the next street to you or something? It was weirder than that, even. The guy, who had a plausible Texas drawl, was very chatty and eventually revealed that he had previously lived in Minnesota. Oh, I asked, where? To which he replied, "St. Paul," then added, "actually, a St. Paul suburb, Roseville." "I live in Roseville," I practically shouted. I asked him what street he lived on and he said, "William Street," a very short street that my family lived on for years. We were able to determine by house numbers that his home was directly across the street from ours.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 12:53:31 GMT -5
That was a great gathering. Even the little show put on by the Hitler youth across from our breakfast place. Brunch at the Historic Menger Hotel, wotta fab place. "Try the Duck L'Orange!"
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Post by billhammond on Aug 13, 2024 11:58:41 GMT -5
Hill Country Guitars moved the shop to Austin some years ago and then I think they went exclusively online and then retired. Barely a trace of them on the Web. The last video they posted was six years ago: www.youtube.com/@hillcountryguitars/videosI was trying today to remember the name of the shop we visited and Google led me to the more recent one, but I think you are right, it was Hill Country we stopped at. And SALT LICK BBQ, omg ...
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