More Cool Automobiles - The Street Rods

There were dozens of street rods at the harvest festival auto show. Here is just a handful of them.


As a kid I was fascinated with building Revell models of cars like this. It would be fun to take one of these for a spin.

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Welcome Frog

This little tree frog was hanging-out on the top of the welcome sign near the door. How the heck did he get up there? It's getting colder so we won't be seeing him for much longer.

Kayak Invasion

I've pointed out on more than one occasion how it seems that the roads nowadays are crowded with vehicles hauling kayaks from here to there.

I'm telling you - kayaks are everywhere.

As evidence of the fact that kayaks are taking over the land there is this new State Park Admission Sticker...

Hat Tip - Sinissippigal

Monday Football

Every fall there is a sturgeon auction in Sturgeon Bay. If you want to participate you obtain from the organizers of his useful fundraiser a blank fiberglass casting of a sturgeon. Then you can exercise your artistic talents to turn it into whatever sort of sturgeon creation you want.



My favorite was this Green Bay Packer sturgeon - complete in green and gold mirrored glass and a face guard.

The Packers play that team from the windy city tonight.

I didn't see any sturgeon dressed-up like a bear.

Go Pack!

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Prostletizing

Yesterday the Jehovah Witnesses paid us their semi-annual visit.

In the city they hardly ever come around to visit.

Out in the country where everyone is spread out and scattered they come around pretty regularly.

Even though we routinely turn-down the offer of a copy of the Watch Tower and Girlfriend gets all worked-up and barks at them they still come around.

I have to give them credit for being persistent.

A Couple of Additional Bachelors

Here is a nice pair of gobblers.

I have a fall turkey permit and never leave home without it during the bow season.

Top Ten War Movies - #7

Another great motion picture from 1970 is the venerable M*A*S*H.

Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duval and Sally Kellerman. Gary Burghoff went on to star in the long running television spin-off.

By no means an epic motion picture - it's a story about the brutal consequences of combat in the forward aid stations and MASH units close to the action. And coping.

It was one of the first movies to seriously poke fun at army life.

Like I said before - 1970 was an impressionable year.

Several years later one of my girlfriends from back then made a habit of snuggling with me on the couch every Thursday evening to catch the latest episode of the television version of M*A*S*H.

That always made a nice impression.

A number of years ago I learned about Door County's own 'Hawkeye Pierce'. A retired doctor who lived on the Peninsula and had served as a combat surgeon in Korea.

The Frau and I traveled to see a collection of memorabilia at the local library near where he lives – including his GI .45, mementos from the ‘police action’, his carefully written chronicles of life during his time overseas and a bunch of photographs.

Including a picture of a sagging GI tent complete with a stove pipe and one of those crazy road sign posts with the distances to faraway places nailed all over it.