December 7, 2014

At the Blue Mounds Café...

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... take the long view.

38 comments:

Ann Althouse said...

Congratulations to Ohio State — after crushing us — for making the playoffs.

Anonymous said...

Is this this where the real estate is near?

David said...

Bucky crushed by a Buckeye. Nice to have a #3 QB who is 6-5, 250 pounds, can throw and do all the other stuff. I hope the Buckeyes make the playoffs, but doubt they will.

Original Mike said...

Here's Althouse's next opportunity to trivialize the achievements of our space program. New Horizons is beginning its historic encounter with Pluto.

David said...

Darta, Wisconsin is full of real estate. In fact it's 100% real estate except for some of the water parts.

pm317 said...

The satiny blue with the gray mixed in, in the picture looks so delicate.

pm317 said...

wow, Scott Walker is on Fox with Shannon Bream, right now. What is with his haircut? odd..

Original Mike said...

"wow, Scott Walker is on Fox with Shannon Bream, right now. What is with his haircut? odd.."

Maybe it's a tuuumor.

campy said...

I like Oregon best of the 4 seeds. But if OSU wins, I can brag that my alma mater beat the guys who beat the champs.

Such a dilemma.

FleetUSA said...

Are you thinking of buying farmland and building a house?

pm317 said...

@Original Mike.. LOL

Original Mike said...

I've been looking forward to the Pluto flyby for years. Voyager 2's flyby of Triton discovered a more active surface than imagined. What might Pluto teach us?

Ann Althouse said...

Walker has new hair?

I guess he's running.

Did he grow a toupee or what?

David said...

OSU made the playoff, so once again my predictions suck. I hope they are sufficiently grateful to Wisconsin, who made it all possible.

David said...

So Walker fixed the hair? Stay tuned.

pm317 said...

It did seem like new hair and lots of it but sitting lopsided to his left side -- may be it was a misplaced toupee.

pm317 said...

I wish I could draw how Scott Walker's head of hair looked for Althouse's benefit..on this very comment interface..

Are there entrepreneurs out there listening -- hey, a startup idea..

campy said...

I wish I could draw how Scott Walker's head of hair looked for Althouse's benefit..on this very comment interface..

ASCII art?

pm317 said...

ASCII art?

Too much effort. Looking for free-hand quick draw type solution.

Coconuss Network said...

I thought the Badgers in the Rose Bowl was becoming a trademark.

pm317 said...

(looking for)

Like translate my mouse movement over this comment box into a line drawing..

Anonymous said...

His head IS lopsided. It always was.

Anthony said...

Am I cynical enough to believe that Wisconsin threw that game just to make sure a Big 10 team got into the final four?

No.

But I am cynical enough to think about it.

pm317 said...

This is scary.. my comment @12:12 about Bream and Walker has already been picked up by google (crawler) for search results.. this is crazy.

pm317 said...

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last attempt at ASCII art...

Original Mike said...

Scott Walker is a conehead?

pm317 said...

hehe.. @Original Mike, try stretching it sideways..

Original Mike said...

Thanks for your post @pm317. I switched over and saw it. I think it was just his hair, but it may have been a misplaced toupe.

Original Mike said...

Maybe an attempt at a comb over (I sure hope not).

Anonymous said...

Have you ever mentioned what camera gear you use? I enjoy the images of WI and sites between there and CO.

chickelit said...

take the long view

Military Ridge Road? You may be standing close to where Iowan Herbert Quick observed the following, in 1855:

It was the latter part of March. There were snow-drifts in places along the road, and when I reached a place about where Mt. Horeb now is, I had to stop and lie up for three days for a snow storm. I was ahead of a stream of immigrants that poured over that road in the spring of 1855 in a steady tide…

As I went on to the westward, I began to see Blue Mound rising like a low mountain…, and I stopped at a farm in the foot-hills of the Mound where, because it was rainy, I paid four shillings for putting my horses in the stable…

I drove out to the highway, and…joined again in the stream of people swarming westward . The tide had swollen in the week during which I had laid by….The road was rutted, poached deep where wet and beated hard where dry, or pulverized into dust by the stream of emigration. Here we went, oxen, cows, mules, horses; coaches, carriages, blue jeans, corduroys, rags, tatters, silks, satin, caps, tall hats, poverty, riches; speculators, missionaries, land-hunters, merchants; criminals escaping from justice; couples fleeing from the law; families seeking homes; the wrecks of homes seeking secrecy; gold-seekers bearing southwest to the Overland Trail; politicians looking for places in which to win fame and fortune; editors hunting opportunities for founding newspapers; adventurers on their way to everywhere; lawyers with a few books; Abolitionists going to the Border War; innocent-looking outfits carrying fugitive slaves; officers hunting escaped negroes; and most numerous of all, homeseekers ‘hunting country’ -– a nation on wheels, an empire in the commotion and pangs of birth. Down I went with the rest, across ferries, through Dodgeville, Mineral Point and Platteville, past a thousand vacant sites for farms toward my own farm so far from civilization, shot out of civilization by the forces of civilization itself.


Herbert Quick, "Vandermark's Folly"

chickelit said...

What's odd is that Quick was writing about events six years prior to his birth.

Oh well, fake but accurate.

garage mahal said...

Going to have to buy myself this for Christmas. What a neat device.

The Drill SGT said...

GM,

don't forget a lifejacket :)

http://www.amazon.com/LifeProof-iPhone-5S-LifeJacket-Float/dp/B00B1GAU52/ref=sr_1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1417992596&sr=1-1&keywords=iphone+flotation

FullMoon said...

Original Mike said... [hush]​[hide comment]

"wow, Scott Walker is on Fox with Shannon Bream, right now. What is with his haircut? odd.."

Maybe it's a tuuumor.


Izz not a tuuumor. izz a headache

kjbe said...

Beautiful country out there.

pm317 said...

Ah! That was cool..

garage mahal said...

Drill Sgt
good idea. I've dropped a few phones in the drink.