Good morning from Collegeville, The temperature is still at single digits in the morning. The number of hours of daylight has increased to almost 11 hours, so it feels a little bit like spring but not really. It is hard to imagine planting potatoes on Good Friday which falls on April 10th this year. I […]
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Comments Off on February 20, 2009 February 13, 2009 Good morning from Collegeville, While cleaning out a storage room, I came across a Technics Quartz model SL-1200MK2 turntable. I hooked it up to our super size speakers in the control room and it works. When MPR moved their broadcasting team to St. Paul, they left behind a small collection of LPs. […]
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Comments Off on February 13, 2009 Good morning from Collegeville, It is finally starting to warm up a little bit. This has been one of the coldest winters that we have had for a while. The news is mostly doom and gloom. “Stimulus Bill”, kind of like “Calamity Jane”. I can imagine someone writing a song or a play using that […]
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Comments Off on February 6, 2009 Good morning from Collegeville, I celebrated my tenth birthday on a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. My mother along with her four children were returning from a stint as US Army dependents stationed in Vienna, Austria. My Dad was held over in Vienna and when he arrived in Upsala a few weeks later, Ma was in New Ulm visiting her […]
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