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ASK A TROOPER Minnesota State Patrol Question: Is it legal for me to have a blue soft lighted “RAM” lettering logo on the front grill of my truck? It’s not flashing, but always illuminated. Any answer is appreciated.
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@YOUR LIBRARY
@YOUR LIBRARY The library is hosting an exhibit called “Climate Change in Minnesota” created by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. It will be at the library until Oct.
Honda Highlights
Old adventurer here recently learned that famous Japanese manufacturer, Honda, is once again building its iconic Trail Bike motorcycle for USA sale, resurrecting “Honda Highlights” memories from more than 50 years ago. Following college, this young couple began family and forest products industry career in Virginia’s Alleghany Highlands. Bank account wouldn’t allow second vehicle “mill car”, but bicycle followed by Honda’s 90 cc Trail Bike for $600 provided commuter and mountain adventures. Helmet labelled “Yankee Clipper”, below Mason-Dixon Line, helped avoid injury twice as autos pulled in front and motorcycle went down onto town streets.
My Daughter
BEYOND REASON Friends have asked why I haven’t written about my 4-year-old daughter. Some know me as a dotting dad and conjectured that I was too deeply in love to make fun of her.
HISTORY with Mike Hanson
Frank has it tough Chapter 6 In late January of 1913 Frank Geddes wrote his family in Indiana that he was making progress but since last summer he had been short of breath from time to time; he thought he was improving though he admitted he was more chipper on some days than others. Frank was hopeful but also knew that he couldn’t get any more done on his house until he got more money and time to haul some lumber into his homestead but he was typically upbeat and figured he would get it “proved up” by fall and “ then it will count up pretty fast.” Frank’s son George took a snapshot of Frank with their team and a load of poles with his dad holding the reins, but it was George who actually ran the team.
Ask a Trooper
ASK A TROOPER Question: I have recently noticed several semi-trucks with lug nuts on their front tires that are pointed and stick out beyond the edge of the cab. I’m concerned that they could cause damage to other vehicles.
@ Your Library
It is the last day of September and a good time to check in and make sure everyone is doing a bit of reading each and every day. It can be a good way to wind down at the end of the day and ease the eye strain of staring at screens and make going to sleep easier (unless you get caught up in a good story).
Celestial Clicking
Old adventurer here often notes annual celestial events during annual rides on our Planet Earth’s own annual merry-go-round rides around its Boss Star. Annual rides and events seem of more noted importance these days as their numbers keep growing ever larger. This week’s event of note is our Autumnal Equinox. This year’s Autumnal Equinox is predicted to occur on Sept. 22 at 8:03 p.m. Central Time when Boss Star seems to pass directly over the Equator, with equal sunshine rays directed to Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Hours of daylight and darkness are almost equal, but not quite due to planetary wobble in flight and atmospheric refraction of Boss Star’s light rays. And we’ve long known since Galileo’s time that Boss Star is not moving around Planet Earth; rather, our home planet is circling its Boss Star and at this time during that circle our Equator passes directly below the center of that Boss Star. This event marks official beginnings of Fall in our Northern Hemisphere and Spring in globe’s Southern half. Here, we’ll see more hours of darkness than light each day until next Spring Equinox occurs in about six months from now in March, 2023. Nearest full moon is labeled “Harvest Moon”; following next full moon is “Hunter’s Moon”, old adventurer’s long-time favorite of the year. There are more such annual celestial events, such as Spring, Summer and Winter recognitions. Christmas, fishing opener, morel mushrooms, deer season, anniversaries and more annual events might also fall into a similar category; however, in one’s late-life chapter they all are like ratchet clicks in cogs on life’s drive-gear wheel. This “Celestial Clicking” could represent steps in one’s journey with no backsliding and a question of how many more clicks are there yet to come? That drive-gear wheel and its ratchet clicks may have been somewhat unrecognized while so many family home and career years circled that Boss Star. Late-life chapter brings “
Beyond Reason: The‘90s
Decades are like snowflakes. They’re white and pointy, and all a little different. Sometimes I think about the 20th century and the decades therein. Nobody knows exactly how many decades were in that century, but it almost seems like there’s one every ten years or so.
Monarchy Movement
Our world learned last week that 96-yearold Queen Elizabeth II of England had passed away following 70 years on its throne as the Windsor family monarch. Her son, Charles, immediately became King Charles III at age 73.