MARQUETTE — Sometimes it pays to get up in the wee hours of the morning to enjoy a pastime. For Mike Laituri — who lives in Whitewater, Wisconsin but hails from Palmer and is a 1985 Negaunee High School graduate — getting up early on July 17 resulted in netting, literally, a ...
JANESVILLE, Wis. — Retired teachers Ed and Chris Stried found a simple way to stay fit when the coronavirus ended their normal workouts earlier this year. On March 24, they bundled up and set out from their Janesville home on South Harmony Drive for their first daily walk. Early on, ...
I left the cushions on my patio chairs the night before, forgetting all about the possibility of rain. That is the first thought that enters my head after a tremendous crack of thunder seems to practically shake the foundation of my house early one Saturday morning. And even though it might already be way too late to rescue those cushions from the rain, I decide it is worth a try. I don my rain jacket and run outside, surprised to find only a few light drops coming down. But even in the several seconds it takes me to run to the chairs and grab the cushions, I can feel the rain ...
DEAR ABBY: We were friendly with our next-door neighbor, who owned a contracting company, and we hired him to renovate our bathroom. At the time, we thought he did a wonderful job. It looked beautiful. Unfortunately, he didn't set the tub correctly, and a slow leak was happening underneath it. ...
MARQUETTE — Outdoors art for youth can be more than simply drawing chalk stick figures on a sidewalk. Like adults, they can take part in an idyllic kind of outside art: plein air painting. A creative community called the Artists Network defines plein air painting as an artistic term used ...
Little patches of clover are working their way up between the cracks in the driveway, while grass, weeds and flowers seem to grow and transform overnight with all the recent sun and rain. The warm sun beats down upon me while birds call out, sing and flutter around in the big old cedar tree that stands proud and tall in my front yard. As I take all of this in, a gray squirrel of an impressive size ambles assuredly around the corner of the house holding a peanut in its mouth. I can’t help but smile at the sight. The squirrel notices. It seems to make eye contact before ...
