This picture of a beer delivery truck once caught my eye
and got saved.
It was probably influenced in design by the zeppelin era in the 1930s and 40s.
Which may have given rise to the VW bus. I did have one of those.
Would that I had it again.
http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2011/11/should-horse-be-made-to-ring-bells-for.html
Which may have given rise to the VW bus. I did have one of those.
Would that I had it again.
http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2011/11/should-horse-be-made-to-ring-bells-for.html
.......
IT'S NOT THE HIGH HURDLE
THAT HURTS THE HORSE'S HOOVES,
IT'S THE HAMMER, HAMMER, HAMMER
ON THE HARD HIGHWAY.....
which leads us to think of Icelandic horses again.
Get out to Winterpark Icelandic farm in Eagle WI sometime.
http://www.winterhorse.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_5gvQ9G--E
.......
Unharvested
.......
Bill Gross, long-time employee of The Waukesha Motor Works and member of the 1st Cong. UCC Church,
is 87 and having a little trouble getting around with his reconstructed knees,
but he asked me as we sat drinking coffee in the fellowship hall last Sunday after service
if I'd like to come out to his place west of town to see his collection of pulleys.
I am a pulley man; I happily agreed.
Bill drove into his driveway and around the house,
through the yard to the back tree-line
where a shed stood nestled in the pines.
I was arrested at all the stuff
Bill has collected over the years.
Pulleys are his favorite thing,
but he's gotten together an assortment of antique tools,
car license plates, a forge, oil cans,
RR memorabilia, and et-cet-cet-CET-tera.
Bill sits like this commonly
by my experience after church
in the coffee room.
Sometimes he brings odd things in to church
to show us and our mutual friend, William The Curious,
now 13 yrs old.
After a long time at the shed,
Bill hoisted himself from his old wicker arm chair
sitting in the midst of hanging pulleys
and tool miscellany, and
drove me home to the Odd Fellows.
I vowed to myself to get him here
sometime soon to see my old pencil sharpeners.
And etc. (ibid)
[D.S.]
.......
DEE, SUSANNE
AT THE TRAIN STATION FOR LUNCH
10-9-13
They greeted each other
as the old friends they are.
In front of the old train station
gone Mexican restaurant: La Estacione.
Two women who have served
the Congregational church long and long.
A carnival of color
inside and out
Dee and Susanne are like the train station.
Trains and children have always play a part
in their common life;
Dee gave birth to Erin shown above
as she plays with a train engine
made by your editor from misc. parts *
and Susanne, for years head cook at Phantom YMCA Camp,
has trained to her home state of Montana.....
and gave wee Erin piano lessons
Erin is now the archivist at Lawrence U.
The history spanning incarnations
mine and ours with Susanne
makes for good lunches,
good rides.
woo-woo
* Composed of scrap wood, old spray can, brown porcelain door knobs,
engineer's cap from 35 mm film cannister, flashlight part, etc.
.......
Hot Damn Band
(the)
again appeared in Waukesha at the farmers market
last Saturday.
We have always a gladdened heart
when that group appears
This time again for free in back of the Pix Theatre
under the canopy where they set up this time
in case it rained, but since we stayed
in the open for the whole thing,
holder-back of rain
it did not rain, afterall.
Chief operational Fred Pike
keeps us posted on Hot Damn appearances
and the Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra
he plays in, too.
Fred with one of his several guitars. He also plays mandolin
WITH THIS OUTFIT
- THE MILWAUKEE MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA -
see red arrow below
Band members are left to right:
Discalced brother smiles at raccoon editor
in Basilica doorway
through the yard to the back tree-line
where a shed stood nestled in the pines.
I was arrested at all the stuff
Bill has collected over the years.
Pulleys are his favorite thing,
but he's gotten together an assortment of antique tools,
car license plates, a forge, oil cans,
RR memorabilia, and et-cet-cet-CET-tera.
Bill sits like this commonly
by my experience after church
in the coffee room.
Sometimes he brings odd things in to church
to show us and our mutual friend, William The Curious,
now 13 yrs old.
After a long time at the shed,
Bill hoisted himself from his old wicker arm chair
sitting in the midst of hanging pulleys
and tool miscellany, and
drove me home to the Odd Fellows.
I vowed to myself to get him here
sometime soon to see my old pencil sharpeners.
And etc. (ibid)
[D.S.]
.......
DEE, SUSANNE
AT THE TRAIN STATION FOR LUNCH
10-9-13
as the old friends they are.
In front of the old train station
gone Mexican restaurant: La Estacione.
Two women who have served
the Congregational church long and long.
A carnival of color
inside and out
Dee and Susanne are like the train station.
Trains and children have always play a part
in their common life;
Dee gave birth to Erin shown above
as she plays with a train engine
made by your editor from misc. parts *
and Susanne, for years head cook at Phantom YMCA Camp,
has trained to her home state of Montana.....
and gave wee Erin piano lessons
Erin is now the archivist at Lawrence U.
The history spanning incarnations
mine and ours with Susanne
makes for good lunches,
good rides.
woo-woo
* Composed of scrap wood, old spray can, brown porcelain door knobs,
engineer's cap from 35 mm film cannister, flashlight part, etc.
.......
Hot Damn Band
(the)
again appeared in Waukesha at the farmers market
last Saturday.
We have always a gladdened heart
when that group appears
This time again for free in back of the Pix Theatre
under the canopy where they set up this time
in case it rained, but since we stayed
in the open for the whole thing,
holder-back of rain
it did not rain, afterall.
Chief operational Fred Pike
keeps us posted on Hot Damn appearances
and the Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra
he plays in, too.
WITH THIS OUTFIT
- THE MILWAUKEE MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA -
see red arrow below
Brian Carter - Percussion
Jeffrey Binder - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Linda Binder - Violin, Stroh Violin, Mandolin, Bass, Vocals
Fred Pike - Mandolin, Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Jay Kummer - Guitar, Ukulele
Linda played her Stroh violin at the farmers market
provoking lots of questions from fruit and vegetable customers
as to what it was. She cheerfully answered each time, variably.
Linda is a celebrated artist musician with her own website:
Jay Kummer played a beautiful rendition on his ukelele
of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
It brought listeners forward to jostle for ideal
cell phone close-up photos of the glabrous fellow.
We got ours:
of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
It brought listeners forward to jostle for ideal
cell phone close-up photos of the glabrous fellow.
We got ours:
Throughout the free concert as always
the band was a perfect unit,
and Brian keeping rhythm steadily
on various percussion devices, including spoons.
"Somewhere Over"reminded me of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahr069-fzE
HOT DAMN BAND CREATES RAINBOWS
THEY ARE AVAILABLE FOR GIGS
- http://hotdamnbandwi.com/
.......
~ Coming next Saturday ~
Our fall trip to Holy Hill was on
10-10 (Who has a 10-10?*) 2013
Regular customer North Lake woman comes to free holy water faucet with Piggly-Wiggly shopping bag full of empty bottles
at a station of the cross in the autumn HH woods. Friendly, she consented to photos.
* A footnote for Milw. Yellow Cab driver, once, now in Albany CA, our friend '206'.
A 10-10 was cab-dispatcher radio code for "an accident or emergency".
http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2012/02/some-things-in-common-loose-but-still.html
and
http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/finger-in-phone.html
the band was a perfect unit,
and Brian keeping rhythm steadily
on various percussion devices, including spoons.
"Somewhere Over"reminded me of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahr069-fzE
HOT DAMN BAND CREATES RAINBOWS
THEY ARE AVAILABLE FOR GIGS
- http://hotdamnbandwi.com/
.......
~ Coming next Saturday ~
Our fall trip to Holy Hill was on
10-10 (Who has a 10-10?*) 2013
Regular customer North Lake woman comes to free holy water faucet with Piggly-Wiggly shopping bag full of empty bottles
at a station of the cross in the autumn HH woods. Friendly, she consented to photos.
* A footnote for Milw. Yellow Cab driver, once, now in Albany CA, our friend '206'.
A 10-10 was cab-dispatcher radio code for "an accident or emergency".
http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2012/02/some-things-in-common-loose-but-still.html
and
http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/finger-in-phone.html
Discalced brother smiles at raccoon editor
in Basilica doorway
