To my great relief, nobody from the city has been by to perform a pop inspection of my sidewalks which, as I told you last week, remained unshoveled as my way of protesting the city’s refusal to scrape the snow off the neighborhood streets. It wasn’t much of a rebellion, though, knowing that…
So far, I haven’t seen anybody outside my house dressed like city Gestapo agents checking the walkability of my sidewalks but I can imagine the scene if they did show up. Ding Dong. I open the door. “Yes, Mr. Lund,” the one wearing a monocle says, “are you avare zat zee city assorities have…
There’s a black pick-up truck that is regularly roaring by our house day and night with an exhaust system so loud it makes the windows and our nerves rattle. Its driver apparently takes great joy in revving the big engine up to about 5 thousand RPM’s and spinning his wheels on the still icy streets…
I was going to rail-on for a bit about how infuriating the last few days have been watching the price of gasoline go soaring as high as an Iranian space monkey; up to nearly $3.50 again after teasing us with the possibility of dropping below three bucks a gallon at the start of the year. Industry…
What man hasn’t heard a woman say this? “You guys have no idea how lucky you are to never undergo the trauma and pain of childbirth.” Our comeback? “Well, you’ve never had to fight in a war.” I guess that argument doesn’t hold water anymore since all the big wigs with big stars on their…
“Lonely..I’m mister lonely..I got nobody..for my own”. (Bobby Vinton 1964) Missing Linda a little bit. Can you tell? She’s been in Arizona for the past week and a half (our longest separation in over 30 years) whooping it up in the desert sunshine with daughter Christy and sister, Renee leaving me here to fend off…
Well, once again, South Dakota public schools have, according to “Education Week” flunked the course and rank dead last among all the states in the country. Shame on us for intentionally neglecting our children’s education so. Or are we? Let’s take a closer look at the 6 criteria used in this condemnation of South Dakota…
A rough heart-wrenching few days on the gridiron for this old Norsky. At least my misery wasn’t prolonged. It became crystal clear within a matter of minutes that the Minnesota Vikings, (I can’t believe I’m saying this) WITHOUT Christian Ponder, had a prayer of advancing in the NFL playoffs against the Packers. I didn’t get…
Yay! The Minnesota Vikings are in the playoffs; okay maybe not beyond Saturday’s re-re match with the Packers but it’s safe to say that even the most loyal of Vikings fans didn’t see this one coming after that miserable mid season slump. Of course, all the national attention is on potential MVP, Adrian Peterson, one…
A couple more runs to the airport to send our two warm weather offspring back to their coat-free comfortable climates and that will be it. Christmas is a wrap for another year. All in all, I’d say it was a good one. Our two youngest grandchildren, Zoey and Ella, seemed delighted with the bags of…