Moose and Ink

… it just seems like it. “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To…

This is a good way to start a day. The rest of it was spent on a garage roof re-shingling.  I am very tired.  

If it’s Labor Day weekend, then it’s time for the Rock Island Grand Prix.  No long post this year (you can check last year’s for more info) but overall it was a fun weekend.  I’m glad it’s over though.  I’m exhausted, tired, and probably going to catch a cold.  The…

School is back in session and the sidewalks are filled with college students bouncing from class to class.  And I do mean bouncing. It appears that the instance class is out, a student is required to text every friend they have.  Even if said friends were just in the class…

Early this afternoon I received a phone call that my Mom was going in for foot surgery.  Sometime last week, she stepped on a sewing needle and it broke off in her foot.  As one might suspect, this is a unpleasant experience. The response from her two youngest children has…

While on my run along the river this morning, I found myself accompanied by one of Decorah’s famous bald eagles.  The eagle stayed fairly close for almost a quarter of a mile, swooping down on the river to hunt for fish, before finally landing on the rocky shore and letting…