Good morning from Collegeville, Last week’s note included a message from an unnamed family member who had some trouble with a sticky keyboard on his new laptop computer. Well, Brother Bill will not be sending out any more emails any time soon. The laptop was destroyed in a fire that wiped out his business. […]
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Comments Off on January 29, 2010 Good frosty morning from Collegeville, On this date in 1936 the wind chill was minus 80 degrees in Upsala, Minnesota. My mother and Auntie were teenagers and they had just moved to Upsala from Cushing. Grandma Ramlo wrote that the grocery store that they had purchased was very low on product to sell, but […]
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Comments Off on January 22, 2010 Good morning from Collegeville, We may get a January thaw today or tomorrow. Wonderful! Today would be a good day to count your blessings. My heart goes out to the folks in Haiti. I just now sent a text message to 90999. Simply text the word “Haiti” and $10 will go to the Red […]
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Comments Off on January 15, 2010 Good morning from Collegeville, I celebrated my seventh birthday in Vienna, Austria. I was an army brat. Dad served in the navy during the war and later he joined the army. In 1950 he was a Sergeant in the 5th Army stationed in Vienna. As “dependents” we were housed in an apartment building that was quite […]
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