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Speaking of dark beer season...Schells announced what this year's Snowstorm is, an Oat Stout. Also, I am happy that their Fort Road Porter is back on shelves. Another solid dark beer for the winter season.

Corporate speak in the construction world is full of four letter expletives. After being in construction my whole life I don't think I would fare well in the corporate world. Also, I don't have much of a disconnect when talking like I do at work when I am around people outside of work...my potty mou...

Viking wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 20 1:47 pm
A plow just went by my house in Eagan...

Blue Earth County plows are out as well. Haven't seen MNDOT on 169 yet though.

From my niece the meteorologist: National weather service increased snow totals. Now 5-7 inches widespread across the Twin Cities. I still think about 4 inches that accumulates, little less for Mankato 2-3 inches She is usually accurate. Her sister lives in Mankato which is why she calls out that a...

Watching my son play football last night probably is the best thing that has happened this year. What's better was that it was tough game vs. @SkiUMahLaw 's New Prague Trojans. :poke: It wasn't the 53-14 drubbing the varsity put down on Friday night but a respectful 25-8 (I believe) win. Rub it in,...

Started the new series The Right Stuff. Not sure how many seasons this will be (I hope only 1) and while it's been a bit saccharine I am sucker for real life space stories and I have enjoyed it so far through 2 episodes. I have enjoyed it so far as well, even with the dramatic additions to the stor...

Watching my son play football last night probably is the best thing that has happened this year. What's better was that it was tough game vs. @SkiUMahLaw 's New Prague Trojans.

It wasn't the 53-14 drubbing the varsity put down on Friday night but a respectful 25-8 (I believe) win.

Someone should check on Hammy.....RIP Eddie Van Halen

I received a phone call from MSU's Assistant AD about ushering for hockey. He said that the schedule is coming together and they are looking to have non-conference games in November/December with conference games starting in January. The Civic Center is trying to work out the details of allowing fan...

Orion wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 05 4:29 pm
John Hill?

I "encourage" the Tommies to make this hire!!!

As I said in my other post about hunting with my son, this year was the first time I've duck hunted in my life. Considering that I do not own any of the duck hunting "essentials" it ended up being a successful first hunting season. We put six ducks total over four days in the bag. We had success hu...

As I said in my other post about hunting with my son, this year was the first time I've duck hunted in my life. Considering that I do not own any of the duck hunting "essentials" it ended up being a successful first hunting season. We put six ducks total over four days in the bag. We had success hun...

One interesting email I received today confirmed that MN Hockey may host a U19 season if the high school season doesn't start on time. There are still lots of moving pieces. MN Hockey has already approved a U19 season. Now individual schools need to come to agreement on how that would work. The ear...

Serious question, couldn't schools just do a Facebook live video? Or something similar? For volleyball, basketball, and wrestling there won't be an option at all to see our kids compete if there isn't a streaming solution. During the virtual parent meeting for football for Mankato West the coach sai...

It was great news from the MSHSL that winter sports will be happening. We've been preparing ourselves that wrestling wasn't going to happen and my son had really started to come to grips with that impending decision, so yesterday was definitely not expected. The main items that are changing in the s...

My daughter started venmo when she started college, it made eating out or grocery shopping with her roommates easier. Couple seconds and each of them send what they owe to the person that paid. I'm not involved in anything that would make it worth my while but I do see the convenience of it though.

This year I made the conscious decision to get back into hunting, I haven't hunted since I moved to Minnesota in 2006. With the help of my daughter's boyfriend I have access to a lot of private waterfowl areas and pheasant land which helps a lot. My son, G-man, took his hunters certification online ...

I remember the novelty of coming up from Iowa to get Mich Golden. The novelty wore off just before I moved up here because they started selling it in Iowa. Alas, I am a typical Iowan in that I usually drink Busch Light at home but I do prefer the many offerings from Schells when I'm in the mood to e...

Fall high school sports are back in Minnesota!! MSHSL reverses their August decision to put off fall sports until spring 2021. Both volleyball and football will start practices next Monday; volleyball gets a 14 game season and football gets a 6 game season. Postseason games are to be discussed at th...

Watched the 4-part series on the Challenger disaster in Netflix. What the families of the astronauts must have felt after the investigation? I can't imagine. This was an easy watch for me since I was a little bit of a space nerd in my youth. I never really researched much into the o-ring thing afte...

gopher6 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 03 8:49 am
KFAN morning show is doing their show at home for most of them due to co worker and family testing positive with Covid 19

I wondered what was with them cutting short their show yesterday. Hawkey kept saying that they all were okay but left it at that.

Both Mankato Brewery and Locale Brewery here in Mankato have done a decent job to have food trucks onsite throughout the summer. Locale has the advantage of being located near downtown for quicker delivery from several restaurants, though most people choose Pagliai's. I don't think either owners of ...

The Nook had a great post yesterday focusing on the closings of businesses this year. I don't know how to link a Facebook post so I will just copy and paste it below: RIP to all of our restaurant friends and family out there! We’ve heard (quite awfully, I must say) time and time again, “well, they w...

Lute Olson, RIP. :( The coach that put Iowa Hawkeye basketball on the map. His Iowa Final Four team is still talked about every basketball season in Iowa. Ronnie Lester is easily the most beloved Iowa basketball player from that team that Lute coached, though I'm a bigger Kenny Arnold fan. RIP Lute.

Thanks everyone this convinces me we need to go auto. I am sure we will use it because we make homemade pizza dough all the time (I realize that's different but neither of us mind spending a little extra effort for the results) and on top of making fresh pasta I know my wife at least will find it u...

Does anyone have experience using a manual crank pasta maker+ attachments? Trying to decide if it's worth it vs. spluring and buying an automatic. I bought my wife the pasta attachment for her Kitchen Aid and she loves it. In the wintertime is when it gets the most work for our noodles for chicken ...

One of my best friends sells seed to farmers in the Cedar Rapids area. He was telling me today about the devastation to the crops but ended by saying, "The positive side is the crop will be much smaller. There are very few grain bins or corn dryers left anyway." I've seen pictures of crushed grain ...

I was in Iowa last week and I saw some of the damage left by the Derecho that ran through the state. Where I saw the damage was between Grand Junction and Panora. There were still some power poles down that had roads closed. The most amazing sight though were entire 300+ acre fields just blown over....

The NSIC cancelled fall sports last week and after a short conversation with MSU's Assistant AD about ushering he told me he wasn't sure if the NSIC will seek to hold a spring season. After that he told me that he is pretty sure that hockey won't start until after Jan. 1....which I think we all have...

Compliments of @Zwak !! Not my favorite opponent...but I would watch it. I agree with SkiUMahLaw that the legal hurdles for these two teams or any DI team to play outside of their conference after it has been postponed would be huge. I don't see any school spending that much money to try to circumv...

My wife had a name for our GMC Envoy..."The Batmobile". For some reason she left the windows down partly on night while she was waitressing. She got in the car after work around midnight she figured out a bat got in the car. She said that she bailed out and almost didn't take the care out of drive! ...

I think it can be safely said that schools have had their way with the student-athletes for a long long time, so I'm very glad to see the students get some say in how they are handled and marketed by the schools. Now in regards to Covid and playing though...I really think they are going to have a mu...

Kwik Trip is the gold standard. As if Super America actually evolved since 1990. Within the city limits of Superior, WI (Pop < 30,000) there are seven (7) Kwik Trip gas station/store locations ☝️🤠 The Mankato/North Mankato area (Pop approx. 52,000) there are eight Kwik Trips here. Currently they ar...

I just read that DII followed the DIII and cancelled all fall sports championships and won't be made up in the spring as well. So the NSIC football conference will only play the eight scheduled conference games. My guess is you'll see the NSIC cancel too. They'll want the tuition revenue but avoid ...

I just read that DII followed the DIII and cancelled all fall sports championships and won't be made up in the spring as well. So the NSIC football conference will only play the eight scheduled conference games.

NCAA Division III has cancelled all fall sports championships for 2020, some DIII conferences have already cancelled their seasons anyway. From what I can tell, canceled really means canceled. No D3 football championship in the spring. Let's enjoy the NHL playoffs, MLB for now, and racing because t...

NCAA Division III has cancelled all fall sports championships for 2020, some DIII conferences have already cancelled their seasons anyway. The NJCAA has already shifted fall sports to spring. This trend seems to be working its way up the ladder.

The MSHSL board only voted on moving volleyball and football, didn't sound like they even broached the subject of moving spring sports. I understand the concerns which mirror those of having in person schooling this fall, but I am upset that many kids will have to choose between one thing or another...

MSHSL votes to move volleyball and football to Spring 2021....

Finally finished The Last Dance (the Jordan thing). Solid. Really solid. Changed my opinion on Scottie's attitude/character, although I have always said that on any other team, he'd be a bigger superstar. Started Fear City, a 3 ep mini series about the Five Families of NYC. Just one ep tonight, goo...

Pretty much a rehashing of what went down in early June. Doyle is gone and now Ferentz is trying to level the field with his team by addressing racial inequalities. This isn't just a Ferentz issue either, this goes back to Fry starting in the 80's. The institution cares more for the program than the...

I have no information to offer here on this. Honestly, I've kept myself in the dark with the football program in Iowa after they chased Chris Doyle out of the door.

The NSIC announced today that all fall sports will be delayed until September 26th. The NSIC, for those not familiar, is a Minnesota based D2 athletic conference with teams like Minnesota State, Bemidji State, and UMD that are members. Football programs will be cut down to just eight games, nothing ...

5 days without Faceplace or Twitland. I do feel mentally better. I've made it my goal to be more positive and this week I feel better for it. On my Instagram account I've challenged myself to post something that makes me happy for 30 days straight. The list I've compiled is actually longer than that...

The Rube wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 23 6:39 am
And I love Rocky IV, but it is not a good movie.

It's a great workout video!!

5. John Deere

I've watched about a dozen of the movies on this list. The one I will make no apologizes for having liked and will still watch if it happens to be on TV is The Whole Ten Yards. It just hits my bad movie funny bone well enough to keep my interest for the entire movie.

First, glad to hear you're feeling better Beauner! Well, I'm back. My exit wasn't pretty but my head wasn't in a good space. I've struggled at times mightily throughout the last four months and social media has been at the heart of it. I shunned FB and Twitland for a while in April/May and I've star...

Cowgirl wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 08 12:04 am
Happy Birthday to @g-manpuck! Our favorite usher at the purple land cow games.

Thanks @Cowgirl !!

This is getting too tin foil hat for me. I'll talk with everyone in the fall. Stay healthy everyone.

The outrage that Marc Michaelis didn't make the Hat Trick is trending here in Mankato. People have disagreed with me for a couple months that Michealis needed other-worldy numbers to make the final three. I think the biggest stumbling block for Michaelis or McKay was their conference competition. T...

The outrage that Marc Michaelis didn't make the Hat Trick is trending here in Mankato. People have disagreed with me for a couple months that Michealis needed other-worldy numbers to make the final three. I think the biggest stumbling block for Michaelis or McKay was their conference competition. Th...

There were wolf spiders at the Mitigwa Boy Scout Camp in Iowa. It seemed like every year when we would set up camp one of those f*** would be hiding in our campsite box at the entrance to our campsite. It became a fun game to torture me with the idea of wolf spiders all week long by my best friend. ...

Snakes...I can deal with garter snakes if I see them first but those sneaky f*** come out of nowhere!

Norm wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 01 4:19 pm
Doesn't a drink have to be a mixture of ingredients to be called a cocktail?

Yep, that's why I said I wasn't a cocktail guy if you stick to the definition of it.

When do we hold the best quarantine hair competition? Who's all in on rocking their best 80's hairband hair? I'm contemplating doing matching mohawks with my son. We last did that about 10 years ago. A five year old can pull off a mohawk...a 36 year old...not so much. Now a 15 year old and 46 year ...

I have always been more a beer drinker so I'm definitely not a "cocktail" kind of guy if you stick to the use of the term. Last year though I did start drinking bourbon. I found that I am a big fan of Buffalo Trace bourbon, three fingers, with diet ginger ale.

Take me for instance. What if I tested negative on both tests but because of that outcome I am asked to self quarantine for 14 days or longer because I am a health risk of contracting Covid because I neither have it nor have had it. Where are you getting the idea you'd be asked to self quarantine f...

But which test would prove to be of greater use? Covid-19 test or the antibody test? You both just made arguments for both tests but which information is of greater importance to know? Then comes the issue of what to do with that information if you are negative for either test? You could willfully m...

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We need to get to widespread testing in order to work back toward some type of normalcy. Hoping we can get there. What results would widespread testing provide? It will tell you if you are currently infected or not, that's it. That's no guarantee that you won't get it or have already had it. Also, ...

My work called and asked if I would be willing to deliver curriculum this week. I declined, as I'm at higher risk from this thing due to the 'beetus. I feel kind of guilty for doing that for some reason. For whatever reason my wife just put together that because of her health over the last 5-6 year...

Another weekend full of work and a break from anything Covid-19 related. I honestly haven't checked the state of anything since Friday morning. I worked for Pepsi this weekend and grocery stores said that Friday wasn't any more busy than any other day in the past two weeks. From what I worked it did...

How I seem to get into minor disagreements daily with my housemates about living in this Covid-19 world in regards to the Governor's actions. I don't think I have a real big anxiety problem but if there is something that gives me anxiety, especially right now, is when some one misinterprets or over...

How I seem to get into minor disagreements daily with my housemates about living in this Covid-19 world in regards to the Governor's actions. I don't think I have a real big anxiety problem but if there is something that gives me anxiety, especially right now, is when some one misinterprets or overe...

Yesterday I ordered a 6'x8' wrestling mat for home. I found a company that sells their defects at a discount. That will help my wife so she can do her Farrell's workout each day at home with some comfort. It will also allow me to kick my son's ass on the mat everyday....look at me the big talker rig...

I would think the main change is that it gives the police more leeway to enforce distancing. I think that is exactly what these orders are meant to do. I read the Executive Order. Maybe I missed it because my eyes glazed over after a while, but I don't see anything in there about police being able ...

Here is the link to the complete order: Governor Order So it's just a continuation of what we've been doing. Nothing more restrictive just with some legal recourse if you get caught breaking CDC gathering guidelines. Work from home if you can or practice physical distancing if you work outside your ...

I would think the main change is that it gives the police more leeway to enforce distancing. I’ve noticed in Wisconsin that there has been a dip in the amount of people I see out since Monday, as if the order kinda gives people a “this $h!t is serious” realization. I think that is exactly what thes...

Thoughtful, well laid out, facts and numbers to back up decision making, and calm in its delivery. I look forward to reading the details of this order. It doesn't sound like it is much different from what we are doing right now, just an extension of current orders and asking to be ever vigilant or s...

Has anyone else read the "Safer at Home" order that Wisconsin enacted? Honestly, it isn't that more restrictive than what we are experiencing now. The big thing that makes it different is that if you are caught breaking one of the rules, it is now enforceable by law and you can be fined and/or jaile...

I guess my son just about walked behind my wife who was on a video conference this morning. He just got out of the shower and per usual was on his way up to his room with only a towel around him. My daughter caught him before he was the star of the show and threw some clothes to him. My wife's co-wo...

Has anyone here watched the Governor's press conferences on Fox9's Facebook page? And then read the Facebook comments during it? I'm glad I'm physically distancing from most of these people!

frozen4champs wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 24 7:51 am
This isn't good news.

I believe Osterholm and Fauci both have said this is what is going to happen, a roller coaster not just one wave.

One thing Walz said about shelter in place and essential businesses was that businesses that keep your furnace running or your water running are essential. There are a lot of businesses that provide services like that that would be essential. He even mentioned mechanics to keep trucks going down the...

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