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Celebrate Rosé Wine Day
Anything is possible with sunshine and a glass of rosé wine.Unknown
If you’re a fan of wine, you’re sure to know that a Red Wine is one that takes a great deal of its color from the grapes, whereas a white wine contains only elements from the juice of the grape itself. But what is this mysterious rosé wine we often hear about? Rosé Wine Day is your chance to learn the difference and just how fantastic the result is. Want it? Rosé wine is the wine that contains only some of the color of the grape skins but lacks the rich and robust color of red wine.
History of Rosé Wine Day
Wine, as you may know, has been a part of human history for a respectably long time, and throughout its history, it has come to include many different vintages and techniques related to its creation. Among those wines, we have the iconic Champagne, Red Wines, White Wines, Port Wines, Mead (Which is technically a Honey Wine), and of course Rosé wine. Interestingly it’s likely that the further you go back in the history of Red Wines, the more like the new Rosé Wine they were, due to the difference in wine press technology of the time.
One of the most beautiful phrases one may hear used in reference to Rosé Wines is the term “Vin D’une Nuit,” a French Term which means “Wine of One Night.” This term references the practice of leaving the wine base in contact with the skin for only a single night, producing the light blush commonly seen in these wines. In the years following World War II, however, Rosé Wine would begin to explode into the world’s consciousness as a Portuguese Wine Producer started releasing wines of this make that became much desired and something of a world standard.
The strangest man-made objects have been found
Sometimes objects appear in strange places no one expects to find them, and that can leave archaeologists scrambling for an explanation or even just filing that find away as a mystery that may never be solved.
2012 archaeologists were excavating a communal toilet at the Fontainebleau Palace outside Paris and almost certainly wondering, "How did four years of higher education lead to this?" when they discovered a 3.5-inch gold hairpin embedded in the ancient sewage. After scraping the 500-year-old poo off the artifact, they realized it wasn't just any poo-covered hairpin. It was a poo-covered hairpin that had once belonged to Catherine de Medici, queen of France from 1547 to 1559. The pin was identified by Catherine's signature interlocking "C" design and her official green and white colors.
Sometimes objects appear in strange places no one expects to find them, and that can leave archaeologists scrambling for an explanation or even just filing that find away as a mystery that may never be solved.
Word of the Day
bibliolater
MEANING:
noun:
1. One with extreme devotion to books.
2. One having excessive devotion to the Bible, especially to its literal interpretation.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek biblio- (book) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1847.
USAGE:
“Well trained in the best American scholarly library, and a true bibliolater, [Danile Willard Fiske] was equally well equipped to establish Cornell’s Library.”
Morris Bishop; A History of Cornell; Cornell University Press; 2014.
“Regular readers know that I am no bibliolater. But the remedy I’m talking about is from the Bible.”
Tom Harpur; The Psalms Are Healing Tonic for an Ailing Spirit; Toronto Star (Canada); Jul 14, 1996.
The London Hammer, which was discovered in the mid-1930s by a couple in London, Texas, who decided a piece of wood sticking out of a rock was probably something that should be investigated. They took the rock home, busted it open, and found a hammer inside. The couple gave their find to archaeologists, who dated the rock to 100 million years, which seemed to suggest that the hammer was crafted long before human beings even existed.
Idiom of the Day
1. One with extreme devotion to books.
2. One having excessive devotion to the Bible, especially to its literal interpretation.
Morris Bishop; A History of Cornell; Cornell University Press; 2014.
“Regular readers know that I am no bibliolater. But the remedy I’m talking about is from the Bible.”
Tom Harpur; The Psalms Are Healing Tonic for an Ailing Spirit; Toronto Star (Canada); Jul 14, 1996.
The London Hammer, which was discovered in the mid-1930s by a couple in London, Texas, who decided a piece of wood sticking out of a rock was probably something that should be investigated. They took the rock home, busted it open, and found a hammer inside. The couple gave their find to archaeologists, who dated the rock to 100 million years, which seemed to suggest that the hammer was crafted long before human beings even existed.
Hard as nails -
Meaning - Refers to a person without sentiments and sympathy for anyone.
Example - He has become as hard as a nail after his brother was brutally murdered.
NASA once promised that space junk was not a threat because, the reasoning went, in all the years that had passed since humans first started putting things into orbit, no one has been killed or even injured by falling space junk. That we know of .. Well, there was that time in 1997 when some space junk brushed past the shoulder of a woman in Oklahoma, and that other time when some space junk missed demolishing a farmhouse in Texas by just a few feet.
This Day in History
1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.
1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.
1860 - The Ms. Ann Stevens book "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published "dime novel."
1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen."
1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).
1962 - Tony Bennett made his debut in Carnegie Hall.
1970 - An honorary Doctrate in Music was given to Bob Dylan by Princeton University.
1973 - Secretariat won the 105th Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths and ran the fastest 1 1/2 miles on dirt at 2:24.
2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.
2011 - The world's first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, June 9
You possess considerable personal power, charisma, and determination. You have a magnetic personality with a flair for the dramatic. While sensitive and considerate, you are also very strong-willed and not one to be controlled or directed. It is quite likely that you will achieve financial success. Famous people born today:
1672 Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], Tsar of Russia (1682-1725), born in Moscow (d. 1725)
1781 George Stephenson, English engineer known as the "Father of Railways" (Locomotion No. 1, Standard Guage), born in Newcastle, England
1961 Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor, author, comedian and activist (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf), born in Edmonton, Alberta
1963 Johnny Depp, American actor (21 Jump Street, Pirates of the Caribbean), born in Owensboro, Kentucky
1981 Natalie Portman [Neta-Lee Hershlag], Israeli-American actress (V for Vendetta, Black Swan, Star Wars), born in Jerusalem, Israel
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2nd Wedding Anniversary: my son Adrian and his wife Shiraz
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1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.
1973 - Secretariat won the 105th Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths and ran the fastest 1 1/2 miles on dirt at 2:24.
2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.
2011 - The world's first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
If You Were Born Today, June 9
Dallas Summer at the Arboretum 2019
May 25 - July 31, 2019 | Dallas, TX
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden|8525 Garland Rd
Just minutes from downtown on the shore of White Rock Lake, we feature 66 acres with 11 lush display gardens that offer seasonal color all year long. Home of Dallas Blooms Spring, the Southwest's largest outdoor floral festival, we provide a tranquil oasis where visitors are surrounded by the beauty of all four seasons.
further information: Summer in the Arboretum
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Warrensburg Bike Rally 2019
May 31 - Jun 9, 2019 | Warrensburg, NY
Warren County Fairgrounds
A gang of motorcycles thundering down the street seems like a rare occurrence depending on where you’re from. At the Warrensburg Bike Rally, it’s a sight that’s welcomed for 10 days straight. To accompany some badass bikes, vendors open up shop to show off their best apparel, shades and other motorcycle goods.
further information: Warrensburg Bike Rally 2019
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Chicago Pride 2019
June 22 - 23, 2019 | Chicago, IL
Multiple Locations in and around Boystown|3407 North Elaine Place
Chicago Pride is annual celebration for the LGBT community of Chicago. The fest celebrates the history and accomplishments of the community’s members by organizing a variety of fun events, including activities great for children and families. Attendees can participate in or simply watch the annual Pride Parade and check out other fun events like the “Gay Idol” competition, beach parties, cocktail parties, outdoor marketplaces, educational seminars and workshops, live music, dance performances, drag shows and much more. The event’s main attraction is the high-energy dance party parade on Sunday morning.
further information: CHICAGO PRIDE FEST 2019
SUNDAY'S INTERESTING FACTS
A paraffin candle is easy to put out because only a tiny amount of wax is exposed to heat and therefore burns. Should an entire pool of liquid paraffin catch fire, it would be like any other hydrocarbon fire, like motor oil, and be extremely hard to put out.
The word “Velcro” is derived from the French “velour” (velvet) and “crochet” (hooks), so essentially “hooked velvet”.
The common style of paperclip today was never patented and is known as the “Gem paperclip”. Not surprisingly, it is thought to have first been manufactured by the Gem Manufacturing Company around the 1870s and later introduced to the United States around the 1890s. This is also why the Swedish word for paperclip is “gem”.
At approximately 32,000 species, fish exhibit greater species diversity then any other class of vertebrates.
The Eiffel Tower was not originally meant to be a permanent structure, simply being built to function as the entrance arches to the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. The initial designs were made by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier (and later with contributions by Stephen Sauvestre) working at Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel. Gustave Eiffel bought the rights to the patent on the design, which is why it bears his name. The artists and other architects of France were not pleased about the tower, submitting a group letter to the Minister of Works and the Commissioner for the Exposition, stating, “We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection … of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower … To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years … we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal…” Eiffel responded, “My tower will be the tallest edifice ever erected by man. Will it not also be grandiose in its way? And why would something admirable in Egypt become hideous and ridiculous in Paris?” Today, about 7 million people per year ascend the monument, making it once of the most visited monuments in the world.
PATTERN BOOK SUNDAY
One man-made object we know for sure simply does not belong in the Sahara Desert: A boat. Because why would anyone need a boat in the Sahara Desert? Answer: Because camels can't carry the dead to the afterlife. In 2016, a 60-foot boat made of expensive, imported cedar was found buried in the sand in the ancient Egyptian city of Abusir. The boat is thought to be at least 4,500 years old.
Indriati Iskak (born 9 June 1942) is an Indonesian actress turned psychologist and marketer. Born in Surabaya, she made her feature film debut in 1957, starring in Usmar Ismail's commercially successful Tiga Dara ('Three Maidens'), alongside Chitra Dewi and Mieke Wijaya. Indriati formed a girl group named the Baby Dolls and starred in eight more films before retiring from cinema in 1963. In 1968, she graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Indonesia. After some time working at the Indonesian Air Force's psychological counselling bureau, Indriati began working at Unilever in the 1970s, staying with the company for twenty-six years; she also taught psychology at the Jakarta Art Institute. Since 1994, she has worked for consulting firm Makki Makki as a marketing and branding consultant. This picture is a promotional still featuring Indriati, dated around 1960, published by the Tati Photo Studio in Jakarta.
CALIFORNIA DESERT NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA
Milky Way lying above a lady’s silhouette, at Trona Pinnacles National Landmark, California.
In 2016 a bronze age relic was found in the remains of a 1,000-year-old Inupiat dwelling. The object appears to have been manufactured in a mold and was probably originally a buckle for a horse's harness, though the indigenous Alaskans didn't have any horses, either. Archaeologists dated an attached bit of leather to 900 A.D., though it's impossible to say if that particular piece of leather was added at the time of manufacture or much later. Without horses, though, what exactly did the Inupiat people want with a bronze harness buckle? No one really knows. Maybe they used it as a fastener for human clothing
knit, Father's Day
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Junkies Java Jerkin pattern by Marjorie Walter
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Scientists were in Siberia monitoring permafrost when they found a fragment of a medieval bronze cup in an area where the permafrost is melting, near Lake Parisento, which is well within the Arctic Circle.
Crochet Pattern of the Day: Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
The painting was found inside a hut that had been hidden for nearly a century beneath the accumulated poop of millions of flightless birds (penguins). The hut was once occupied by famed South Pole explorer Edward Wilson, who died on a 1912 expedition a couple months after reaching the South Pole. According to The Guardian, the painting is a small watercolor of a dead bird entitled "Tree Creeper." It was found in a portfolio full of papers and some other totally boring stuff, and is one of around 1,500 separate artifacts found in the hut. Researchers used handwriting samples to identify the painting as Wilson's work.
crochet, Father's Day
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Once upon a time, apparently, a Viking was walking around atop a mountain in southern Norway, probably so he could prove to other Vikings how badass he was, when he up and died. His remains vanished, but his sword stayed up there until a reindeer hunter found it more than 1,000 years later. The sword was sitting on the mountaintop out in the open on small, loose stones, which helped protect it from the sort of damage that might have occurred over time if it had been buried in soil. Conditions on top of the mountain are cold and dry, which also helped keep it in pristine condition.
RECIPE
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One of the strangest things-found-in-trees is the creepy Buddha head in Wat Mahathat in Thailand, which gazes out from its eternal tomb within the roots of a banyan tree. While some objects in trees are more head-scratchy than others, it's not a huge mystery how this particular head ended up in this particular tree. The Burmese army vandalized the 14th-century temple in 1767, and for some reason thought it would be awesome good fun to cut the heads off all the old statues. After it was separated from its body, the head met up with the tree, and the tree grew around it in the most creepy and weird way possible, probably as a warning to humans not to leave their stuff sitting around at the base of a tree.
CROCKPOT RECIPE
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The Antikythera mechanism has been labeled the first mechanical computer mechanical computer. Found in a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, buried under 45 meters of water it was designed to calculate astronomical positions. Consisting of a box with dials on the outside and a very complex assembly of gear wheels mounted within, it’s about as complex as an 18th-century top-notch clock.
SWEETS
thanks, Sara
COOKBOOK SUNDAY
Betty Crocker's Cookbooks for Boys and Girls
The Baghdad battery – a 2000-year-old battery ... This device consists of a 5-1/2-inch high clay vessel, inside of which was a copper cylinder held in place by asphalt. Within the cylinder, archaeologists found an oxidized iron rod. In 1940, Wilhelm König (the German director of the National Museum of Iraq) suggested that these could be galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects. Nobody has been able to prove him wrong, especially since it only needed to be filled with an acid or alkaline substance to produce an electric charge.
ADULT COLORING
The Baghdad battery wouldn’t have been very effective as a battery, but there’s a chance it could have worked. Elizabeth Stone, an archaeologist at Stony Brook University, says modern archaeologists do not believe the object was a battery, and was instead simply a storage vessel.
CRAFTS
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Geology is a relatively “new” science. The progress and developments made through experimentation are absolutely remarkable and have helped in many other fields. Still, there are some things yet to be explained. Though the honeycomb pattern of paleodictyon is already well known, we remain stumped as to the creation of such and more questions are being raised. For example, a fossil of a human handprint was found in limestone estimated to be more than 110 million years, a fossilized human finger with just as much, and the apparent discovery of a human footprint that possibly sported a sandal which dates to more than 300 million years ago. These amazing fossilized imprints/remains have left the scientific community scratching their collective heads. Not to mention the 65 million-year-old semi-ovoid metallic tubes being dug out of France, the unusual block of coal discovered 124 years ago which contained a metal cube that couldn’t have formed naturally within the lump, and many more intriguing things.
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Father's Day
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In 1929, a group of historians made what can only be described as an amazing discovery, written on the skin of a gazelle. After study and research, they found that it is a genuine map drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a well-documented admiral of the Turkish navy. He depicts Europe and North Africa, the coast of Brazil, several islands (The Azores, Canary Islands, and the mythical island of Antilia), and even Antarctica, which was thought to be discovered more than 300 years later. The most puzzling thing is not that it shows we need to rethink the chronology for a number of exploratory discoveries, but that it describes Antarctica’s topography as not being masked by ice and in great detail. The last time that occurred was more than 6000 years ago. Tell me then. How did a Turkish admiral from half a millennium ago map a continent that’s been covered by ice for the last 6000 years?
PUZZLE
The Nazca drawings (or lines) definitely have something otherworldly about them. Discovered in 1930 — when the US inaugurated two new commercial lines — they cover 450 square km and some measure more than 200m in length. They depict lines, geometrical figures, animals, and figures that we haven’t entirely figured out yet (many believe them to be constellations). Whether made for the gods or for some other reason, it’s obvious that they were meant to be seen from the sky. Scientists have had trouble trying to figure out how they could have been designed and created without somebody directing the work from above. We can only marvel at these amazing figures and continue to wonder how and why they were created by a people called the Nasca.
WORD SEARCH
SUDOKU ... medium
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The city of Nan Madol was built between 200 B.C. – 800 A.D., on a coral reef near Micronesia. It consisted of about 100 artificial islands made from huge basalt blocks and connected with viaducts. From the start, it dazzles us with a mix of the bizarre and grandeur. From the start it seems incongruous; 250 million tons of offshore basalt in the middle of nowhere. How were these huge blocks quarried, transported, and placed in the perfect spot? Even by today’s standards, it would an impressive engineering feat. Additionally, the reasoning behind its development remains a mystery. Archaeologists have few clues as to what happened to the civilization responsible for its creation.
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Near the city of Cuzco, more than 3500 meters above sea level, these amazing walls first fascinated the Spanish conquistadors. They were astonished to discover how these people who, according to them, were ignorant and lacked the ability of logical reasoning required to have built such wonders. They are in fact 3 concentric walls, the average being roughly 360 meters in length and 6 meters in height, made from limestone blocks that weigh about 300 tons each. They didn’t use mortar or any other kind of cement to bind the walls, but they are carved and placed in such a way packed so closely that even a sharp knife can’t be wedged between 2 blocks. Scientists have tried to achieve this at a much smaller scale and have failed in their efforts to replicate the tight joints of the Sacsayhuaman walls.
CLEVER
EYE OPENER
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"Check out this obituary"
Sharing this obituary found by one of my children cruising the web. RIP Mr. Schrandt. We need more honest, salt-of-the-earth people like you.
Tim Schrandt was a cowboy born 100 years too late.
That's what his family believes, anyway, according to the hilarious and heart-warming obituary they wrote after he died on March 29.
Here it is:
Tim Schrandt
Courtesy of Schluter-Balik Funeral Home & Crematory
Tim Schrandt, age 63, of Spillville, IA died on Friday, March 29, 2019 at Gundersen Health System in LaCrosse, WI after a short battle with cancer.
A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, April 4, 2019 at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville with Deacon Pat Malanaphy presiding, burial will be in the church cemetery with full military rites.
Visitation will be from 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville and also after 10:00 a.m. at the Church on Thursday morning.
Tim Schrandt (Lynyrd) made his last inappropriate comment on March 29, 2019. If you are wondering if you may have ever met him, you didn't - because you WOULD remember. For those of you that did meet him, we apologize, as we're sure he probably offended you. He was world renowned for not holding back and telling it like it is.
Tim was born to William (Bill) Schrandt and Mary (Schrandt) Manning on June 11,1955 - 100 years too late. Given Tim's demeanor he would have been the perfect weathered cowboy in the old west or rough and tough pioneer, or maybe he just should have been Amish.
Tim was the 4th of 8 kids, the bottom rung of the top tier (the big kids). Instead of taking his place on that rung, listening to the older kids and doing as he was told by his older siblings, he decided to anoint himself "king" of the 4 little kids. Tim spent his childhood and early adulthood ordering them around and in general, tormenting them. He was a great orator, (not like Shakespear, but more like Yogi Berra), as he always had something to say, and always had to get in the last word.
His position as "king" and orator was challenged by the nuns at St. Wenceslaus school in Spillville. He may have met his match. We’re not saying the nuns won, but they put up a good fight, we mean literally - he got into a fist-a-cuff with a nun. In fairness, she probably started it. You didn't take a swing at Tim and not expect one back. Tim's fondness for authority (his own - not others) followed him to South Winneshiek High School in Calmar and later into the Army. This provided for many interesting episodes and stories, detentions and demotions, and a few "run ins" with the law, not just locally, but globally.
Tim worked at Camcar/Stanley Black and Decker in Decorah as a tool and die maker for 30 plus years. Tim worked with many friends and “a bunch of morons”. His words, not ours. Well not exactly his, words because that would have included a bunch of swear words.
Tim leaves behind a hell of a lot of stuff that his family doesn't know what to do with. So, if you are looking for a Virgin Mary in a bathtub shrine (you Catholics know what we’re talking about) you should wait the appropriate amount of time and get in touch with them. Tomorrow would be fine.
In addition to his stuff he leaves behind two great boys who he was extremely proud of, Cody (Jenny) Schrandt and Josh (Lydia) Schrandt were the product of his marriage to Crystal Hilmer. He will be missed by his two granddaughters that he adored and taught to cuss, Peyton and MacKenna. Also left to keep the stories alive (but damn, there won"t be any new material) are his mother Mary Manning and siblings Mike (Rita Dixon) Schrandt, Marty (Clint) Berg, Becky Schrandt-Miles, Bill (Grease) Schrandt, Pam (Rick) Barnes, Peter (Sandra) Schrandt and many nieces, nephews and cousins that wanted to hang out near him, because you just knew he was going to say or do something good. It’s not that he was such a great storyteller, it’s that he WAS the story!
To his siblings amazement he was actually able to snag a good woman, Cheryl Murray, and hold on to her for the past 13 years, and as far as we know restraints were not used. Tim also created great memories and stories for Cheryl’s kids Alex (Christina) Murray and Samantha (Evan) Luedking and grandkids Tatum and Grace.
He will be having a reunion with his infant daughter Ashley, his brother Duke, his dad Bill Schrandt, many aunts and uncles and a handful of cousins that passed before him. Tim was in charge of getting the beer and ice for our family reunions, so they will be happy to see him.
A common line in obituaries is “He never met a stranger”, in Tim’s case he never met a rule he couldn’t break, a boundary he couldn’t push, a line he couldn’t cross and a story he couldn’t stretch. Another common obituary phrase is “He’d give the shirt off his back”, well Tim was prepared to do that, and he could do it quickly, because he always wore his shirts unbuttoned ¾ the way down. Tim was anything but common!
Despite his crusty exterior, cutting remarks and stubbornness, there is actual evidence that he was a loving, giving and caring person. That evidence is the deep sorrow and pain in our hearts that his family feels from his passing.
Tim led a good life and had a peaceful death - but the transition was a bitch. And for the record, he did not lose his battle with cancer. When he died, the cancer died, so technically it was a tie! He was ready to meet his Maker, we're just not sure "The Maker" is ready to meet Tim. Good luck God!
We are considering establishing a Go-Fund-Me account for G. Heileman Brewing Co., the brewers of Old Style beer, as we anticipate they are about to experience significant hardship as a result of the loss of Tim"s business. Keep them in your thoughts
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. -Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (18 Apr 1857-1938)
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