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Senior moments

June 22, 2020

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Lots of luck, kids — you’re going to need it

June 2, 2020

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Sunday musical offering

May 24, 2020

1 Comment | comfort & joy, musical offerings | Tagged: Moses Hogan, On Wisconsin!, UWEC Concert Choir | Permalink
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Monday chuckles

May 18, 2020

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Monday chuckles

February 17, 2020

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Sunday musical offering

June 16, 2019

2 Comments | comfort & joy, musical offerings | Tagged: On Wisconsin!, UWEC Singing Statesmen, Volckmar Leisring | Permalink
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Sunday musical offering

May 26, 2019

4 Comments | comfort & joy, musical offerings | Tagged: Madison, Ola Gjeilo, On Wisconsin! | Permalink
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Musical offering for Palm Sunday

April 14, 2019

2 Comments | comfort & joy, musical offerings | Tagged: On Wisconsin!, Orlando Gibbons, UWEC Concert Choir | Permalink
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Today’s feel-good story

March 11, 2019

6 Comments | circus of life | Tagged: Jonah Larson, On Wisconsin! | Permalink
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quote of the day

I love long walks, especially when they’re taken by people who annoy me. —Noel Coward
thought for the day

You know you’re getting old when you realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise.
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Home sweet home
birdhouse visitors
- 905,053 visits
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
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squawks from the past
squawks from the past

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