Good morning from Collegeville, Monday we will celebrate Memorial Day. This national holiday honors the men and women who have died in military service to this country. The first “Decoration Day” was celebrated in 1865 by liberated slaves at the historic race track in Charleston, West Virginia. Another Decoration Day was celebrated in Waterloo, New […]
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Comments Off on May 22, 2014 Good morning from Collegeville, My mother was 36 years old when she had to move back to her home town to raise six children on her own. We may well have been the first AFDC family in Upsala and one of the first in Morrison County. All six of us have paid a lot of […]
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Comments Off on May 16, 2014 Good rainy morning from Collegeville, Yesterday was the first day that the earth worms were out on the parking lot and the sidewalks on campus. The smell of earth worms brings memories of fishing. The annual Osberg fishing trip is 4 weeks from tomorrow and the Minnesota fishing opener is tomorrow. I have never been […]
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Comments Off on May 9, 2014 Good morning from Collegeville, Sump pumps fail. Alarm systems set up to alert you to a sump pump not starting can fail too. I am thinking of having the ancient cistern in the Parsonage filled in with dirt and or concrete. The only question is “where will the ground water go then?”. The person who […]
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