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Have to try the plastic forks in the sun. It's been over a 100 degrees, here for the last month and it's been between a 110 and a 124 for the last 2 weeks. Only 2 more months to go. To get 8 months with almost perfect weather, we pay for it with 4 months of what the weather channel calls extreme heat. We don't need our hot water heater either. Our cold water is a 100 degrees, give or take a couple of degrees. Usually Yuma is the hottest city in Arizona; but, for the last few weeks we have been the hottest.

07/12/17 07:30 PM

#2376

Lauren - Here's a suggestion,

Don't go out when it's 115 degrees just to watch the plastic forks melt. Staying inside with somrthing cool is a much more rewarding activity.

07/12/17 11:06 PM

#2377

Garry Sellers

Hey! I was just looking something up about our school and found according to Wikipedia that Custer HIgh School in Milwaukee was named after Harvey Custer, Milwaukee's first Postmaster General! I guess that is how the street was named too, the one that the original Custer was on but changed to Edison Jr High. I haven't been successful in finding out anything more about this Harvey Custer guy. I'm sure this bursts some people's bubble!

07/13/17 07:58 AM

#2378

Sandy Wachs (Oldham)

We were always called the Custer Indians and our yearbook was the warrior. We always thought that was a reference to George A Custer as in Custer's last stand? Why didn't somebody tell us that before we drew all the Retsuc Indians for the football banners? Talk about being politically incorrect.

07/13/17 11:17 AM

#2379

Our Custer High is in Wikipedia? Wow!

07/13/17 03:39 PM

#2380

One of my daughters gave me a book on early Wisconsin railroads. Harvey Custer was involved in one of the first railroads in the Milwaukee area. For what it's worth, a rich relative had our family history traced. My great, great grandfather called Col. Custer, George. I refuse to call G.A. Custer General. He was a brevet general in the Civil War. When the war ended, he reverted back to his rank of Lt. Col.

Jim, Anything 105 degrees and under is bearable. A 120+ is hot: but, it's a dry heat is meaningless at that point. When it's that hot, you do the same thing that you do in bad weather, in winter, in Wisconsin and Michigan. You hole up. Anything that you do outside, you do before 9am. The heat pumps run continuously during the day. Everything, car, home, work, store, etc. is air conditioned. I find that I can take hot better than cold.

07/14/17 02:49 AM

#2381

Garry, your mention that our school and the street at the north end off the block where I lived were both named after a Postmaster reinforces my opinion that Postmasters were once held in high regard; at least high enough to have stuff named after them.

Although we don't live in the town limits, our address is Quitman, LA. There are Quitmans in several Southern states, including MS, GA, TX and AR. We thought our town was named after a once famious Mexican-American War general, John A. Quitman. He was once very famous and was considered Presidential material He was the governor of Mississippi for a while, and then became a Congressman. We've toured his home, Monmouth, in Natchez, MS a ccuple of times. If you ever get down that way, it's one of our two favorite mansions to visit. (The other is Longwood.) It is open for tours and you can stay there overnight in a B&B environment.

We kearned a couple of years ago from a local historian, who's written several articlas for the local weekly newspaper, that our Quitman was named after the town's first Postmaster. As far as I know, he was never considered presidential material, but I think they had higher standards then.

BTW, Jim, I was surprised to find our little town is listed in Wikipedia also. Even more surprising is that we know four of the five prominent people listed. The last one listed is our daughter-in-law's father.

07/16/17 11:08 AM

#2382

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

It's July, it's 110 degrees, and several TV channels are showing Christmas movies.

07/16/17 02:37 PM

#2383

The world is indeed getting weird.

07/17/17 12:47 AM

#2384

I have a question regarding the dress code for the coming November reunion. In the promo put out by the Committee, it mentions that on Saturday there will be a "banquet." That sound pretty formal, so, what means "formal?" Wisconsin formal or California formal? To us California types, except Garry, who wears a tux when he's playing golf, "formal" means, like, wearing a shirt, probably even with sleeves, long pants, dress sandals or shoes, and most likely, socks. Ugh.

07/22/17 09:58 AM

#2385

Sandy Wachs (Oldham)

At our age, who needs a dress code? We are looking for someone to dress up as 'Hashtag'.

07/24/17 03:16 PM

#2386

When I finally get dressed in the morning, I exchange my sleep shorts for denim shorts. If I'm dressing up, I'll put on a pair of black cargo shorts.

07/25/17 05:52 PM

#2387

Sandy - we've got 'hashtags', clouds, little bird things, et al, none of which I understand, so how could I dress as one. We'd look like a prune version of Custer's Comic-Con.

Lauren - does that mean that you've finally given up on your Hugh Hefner thing wearing your 'jammies all day long?

07/26/17 10:41 AM

#2388

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Jim- Sleep shorts, which can be used as part of the classic tourist garb, in the summer and flannel lounge pants in what passes for winter, here; is the closest that I've gotten to real pajamas in 60 years. And, it's surprising how many people that you see wearing the lounge pants in stores around here.

07/26/17 09:12 PM

#2389

Just found this on Facebook, previewing an upcoming feature on CBS Sunday Morning, this coming Sunday:

"Did you know that Milwaukee is home to the most frozen custard 🍦 shops in the world? Tune in this Sunday as our Mo Rocca visits custard's first stand (if you will) in the city, Gilles Frozen Custard, to get the scoop on the sinfully sweet treat alongside legendary baseball announcer, funnyman, and former player Bob Uecker, who is quite a big fan of his hometown dessert!"

07/27/17 11:01 AM

#2390

http://www.songs-tube.net/

Kopp's is the best of all of them. The one on Port Washington Rd. is 3 miles from the house in Milwaukee. I would go there about 3 times a week, when I lived in Milwaukee. The problem was that I'd eat the pint in one sitting. The scale finally told me to split the pint into 2 servings. I really miss frozen custard. Culver's has a couple of shops in Phoenix; but, that's a 250 mile drive. So, I have to be content with Cold Stone Creamery.

07/27/17 12:18 PM

#2391

Garry Sellers

Sunday Morning is the BEST show on television ... even at 6 a.m. here in California! Jane is okay but I do miss Charles Osgood and Roger Kurwalt (but two families Roger? ... one on the East Coast the other in Montana! Who'd have thunk?)

For another piece of nostalgia, try going to this website for most any music you ever wanted to hear. Thanks to Rich "Gino" Simone for passing it on.

07/29/17 02:39 PM

#2392

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Our favorite custard comes from LeDuc's in Wales. Luckily for me, my wife lived in Wales when we were dating. Her dad always asked us to bring a pint home whenever we went there. He didn't care which flavor. One of my cousins insists Culver's is better, but we don't share her enthusiasm. We were up there last month and weren't that impressed with Culver's custard. We took a pint of Lemon Drop back to our motel from LeDuc's and ate half. The 2nd half went into the freezer in the frridge in our motel room, but thawed by the next day. Not nearly as good when you drink it!

My problem with "Sunday Morning" on CBS is that it comes on in the morning! I used to like Charles Kuralt and Charlie Osgood a lot. Had a couple of Kuralt's books, but didn't realize he had two families, although we'd heard that he had several relationeips other than his wife. We currently can't get CBS anyway; we're living with an indoor antenna that gets only three related stations and seldom watch it. Once we get some other work done, we'll put up our tower again and get TV. We really don't miss it. Now get most news from the radio and internet.

I'll be checking out that music site, Gary.

07/30/17 12:36 PM

#2393

Here's a link to the Milwaukee Custard story for all you Left-Coasters who didn't get up early to see it. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/Y28ORfdmMwc

07/31/17 08:29 PM

#2394

Bill,

LeDuc's - when I was with the Waukesha sheriff's department we'd stop there all the time. My wife's uncle owned the garage next door and would do towing for us. But LeDuc's - and people thought we only liked donuts.

08/02/17 01:46 PM

#2395

Jim,

When were you a Waukesha Deputy? One of our nephews, Charlie Elftman, was a long time deputy there, including a stint as their negotiator.

One of our granddaughters is a 911 dispatcher and dating a Lieutenant on the Waukesha county Sheriff's Dept., Chris Button, but he's younger than you are likely to know.

08/02/17 11:50 PM

#2396

Bill,

I was a deputy out there from 80-86. I pity the negotiator. Of the years I was there,we were actually only under a real contract for about 3 weeks. The county's negotiating position was to give nothing, or less if possible.

08/04/17 02:07 AM

#2397

Jim, I might have used the incorrect term. He wasn't negotiating work contracts, but stuff like potential suicides, hostage situations and other cases like that. I think he was on the force for nearly 30-years and retired a couple of years ago. His eldest son is now a Dane County Deputy.

08/27/17 12:35 PM

#2398