FOR FORMER PRESIDENT JAMES EARL “JIMMY” CARTER JR. WE CONGRATULATE YOU ON BEING THE FIRST EVER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT TO LIVE FOR AN ENTIRE CENTURY, AND MAY YOU, YOUR WIFE ROSALYNN, AND ALL YOUR OTHER DECEASED FAMILY MEMBERS ETERNALLY REST IN PEACE. You might have read my “A Spot for the Community” post about The Community Space in my town of Whitewater, which offers stuff like food, clothing, and household items for people simply in need of them. Still, for those of you who haven’t (or would at least like to read it again), this is the link for it: […]
Talkin’ About a Restoration Project
Well, nothing does last forever, right? Yet some things certainly do return to how they previously were. In some cases, they get restored. Before some things do get restored, however, there may be campaigns or fundraisers to make it occur. And if you want to know one that I now is going on in my community right now, this is what it is: one for a couple of tennis courts right on the edge of the field of my former elementary school. In fact, here is a photograph of a sign on the abandoned tennis courts’ metal fence from one […]
Double Dollar Stores
Well, I may have talked about how a Dollar Tree used to be in Whitewater in an older post, but NOW, here is some news…the chain is returning to the community soon enough! That is right, a second Dollar Tree (although not in the same location as the one that used to be in the plaza mall years ago) is being opened soon enough. Where the second Dollar Tree will be is by the Whitewater FortHealth Care Therapy building (the space by there had been an empty grassy field for many years). Anyway, you also remember that Dollar General I […]
A Tribute to the Future Newlyweds…
Well, my older brother Jake and his finance Cynthia have just arrived to our house to visit for nine days this evening! And with that, I figured I am interested in doing a post for them… Remember how a fair while back, I talked about how my other older brother Aidan married Lucy and they now have a daughter named Rita? Well, last December, Jake and Cynthia announced someone rather exciting news: he and Cynthia will become a married couple also! That is right people, both of my brothers will have been married after 2025! On top of that, they […]
Just When it Appears That All Hope is Lost…
Today is my Aunt Sue’s 65th birthday, so happy birthday to her, and congrats on making it six and a half decades! Anyway, you might not remember this, but over half a decade ago, I chatted about how resort hotel chain Kalahari had already opened locations in Wisconsin Dells, Sandusky, Ohio, as well as Ponoco Mountains, Pennsylvania, but its originally planned location in Fredericksburg, Virginia was still in question. Well, I have been looking this up a lot more recently, and I can tell you that status of Kalahari Resorts in Virginia now… Well, I am definitely sorry to say […]
Baby’s 1st Christmas Post for Rita
Well, remember that tribute post for my niece Rita that I posted up? Well, this of course is her first ever Winter holiday season, and I especially just decided that I would do this post for her, as well. Lucky first time baby, eh? By the way, before I begin doing saying else, I would just like to congratulate my ever-loving niece for making her first Winter holidays ever! Well, for MY own first Christmas two decades ago, I received a golden Rudolph ornament from my late Aunt Sandy (you may have seen the tribute post for her which I […]
Wanna Know an Eatery That Flies? Here is One…
Well, certainly I have chatted about restaurants in earlier posts, although have you ever dined at one located in an airport? If you have, then perhaps it was one of those larger city ones. However, did you also know that there can be smaller airports (you know, ones that are mainly used by smaller propeller-driven planes) can have such restaurants as well? That is right, and my father and I have eaten at one such smaller airport restaurant a few times. First of all, where is airport simply is? It is southwest of Janesville and north of Beloit in Wisconsin, […]
A Spot for the Community
FOR ROSALYNN CARTER. YOU WILL ALSO BE MISSED, AND LOVED FOREVER. Now, I am certain that you have heard of things such as fundraising drives for food, toys, clothing and other events related to those. Do you recall participating in a food drive at your school? A toy drive? Something like those elsewhere? Of course, that can occur year-round at places as well, such as Goodwill (mom and I have dropped off things there in the past). Suppose it is NOT any part of a chain though; rather, it is only a single center for the community in which it […]
Shore Vision
We have ALL taken a vacation in our lives. Plus, suppose you have visited a beach a number of times in the past (I am certain you presumably have). However, fewer people might think of THESE details…
A Departing Off the Old Block
Well, this actually was posted 8 years ago, so you perhaps do not remember it, but in an old post of mine, I talk about how the Calvary Lutheran Church (a certain church in my town which my family used to go to) getting replaced with an apartment building named The Element. THIS one will consider a place that ended up having a very similar situation that actually occurred on the same street, but at a corner. Now, what actually got replaced with an apartment building HERE was a former funeral home. It was first built as an Italianate house […]