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caseyc

12-01-2005 14:24:04




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well, last wednesday my wife and i took off to WI for the holidays. visited pop wed. night in sussex (milwaukee area). for turkey day we drove up to sheboygan to the grandparents and then over to cleveland with mom for the night. left friday afternoon for sussex again and the wifes car decides to die. dealer in saukville can't figure out whats wrong and the car starts again, so down the road we go. 10 miles later in cedarburg it dies again. pop comes up from sussex to give us a pull and it starts again. three miles to a shop and it dies again. we leave it at a shop for the night and the gentleman gets right on it sat. morning. after five hours of solid run time and alot of miles driving it will not act up at all. we get back there at noon to pick it up, drive four miles and it dies. now i am steaming! no ore shops open till monday and we have to get back to work so we decide to just buy another one so we can get home. nothing worse than being a mechanic yourself and not having your own tools to fix it!!!! so the wife is the proud owner of a grand cherokee limited now. sat. night we head to st. paul, MN to see her family. we drive back sunday night in a freezing rain storm only to find our first SD blizzard upon us. we wake up monday morning for work and no power. i've never seen so many power lines and poles down in my life. so get the wood stove fired up in the basement so the water doesn't freeze, and there we sat. couldn't go to work cause we leave at 6:30 in the morning and don't get home till 6:30 at night and my stove is small and i didn't want it burning unattended. the house stayed a nice 70 degrees, the wife had hundreds of candles for light at night. the neighbors were all coming over for water because they all have wells(no way to pump) and i have rural water(like city water). after 3 1/2 days of waiting we got power back this morning so i am back to work, back to the computer and finally back to normal.

casey, glad to be home in SD

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David Kronwall

12-02-2005 03:09:31




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 Re: i'm back, finally..... in reply to caseyc, 12-01-2005 14:24:04  
Man! What an ordeal! I wish I could have helped you out too, because I know the frustration of having a car on the fritz--especially when traveling. Your story and locations, plus Dellbertt's mention of Sioux Falls, took me back a while. I lived in Sioux Falls for about three years back in the early 70s...worked at a TV station that was KSOO-TV and then became KSFY-TV. In fact, I met my wife out there, though she was a transplant from Indiana. We had some vicious winters in S.F. Had a blizzard once where several Augustana students froze to death along I-90 when they tried to make it back to the Twin Cities. (You're right, Dellbertt, Sioux Falls is a nice town. Did you try the Stock Yards Cafe?) We moved back to Wisconsin, where I'm originally from, after our marriage in the mid-1970s. In fact, we're in Lake Geneva, about 50 miles SW of Milwaukee. Though we liked the town of S.F., I missed the trees and lakes too much. So we moved back to the Badger state.

Where you from in S.D.?

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caseyc

12-02-2005 06:53:00




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 Re: i'm back, finally..... in reply to David Kronwall, 12-02-2005 03:09:31  
hey david, i transplanted to brookings in 1998 and got my farm bought in toronto in 2002. toronto is alittle east on hwy 28, half way between watertown and brookings. i was born in north prairie WI and lived in cleveland and sussex before moving out here to SD.

casey



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P Backus

12-01-2005 17:36:40




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 Re: i'm back, finally..... in reply to caseyc, 12-01-2005 14:24:04  
Hi Casey,
Sorry to hear you had so much grief here in WI. You could always call on your buddy in Valders for help in a time like that, although I was doing field work, so I don"t know how much help I"d have been!
You"ve got to admit- it must have been kind of relaxing staying at home with only the wood stove and a good shop manual for company the last few days.
BTW, did your mom ever find some decent hay?
Paul

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caseyc

12-02-2005 07:03:16




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 Re: i'm back, finally..... in reply to P Backus, 12-01-2005 17:36:40  
hey paul, i thought about calling you for a visit but we ran out of time on friday. mom did finally fill her barn by finding a few here and few there kinda thing. glad to here you finally got your field work done. hope that magnum turns out better than worse.

casey



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Dellbertt

12-01-2005 17:28:00




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 Re: i'm back, finally..... in reply to caseyc, 12-01-2005 14:24:04  
this summer I took a fella to Sioux Falls, SD (to repo a semi). That is the cleanest darn town I ever seen. Theres just something about that town that feels good. Everwhere you went the people were nice and friendly.



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williamf

12-01-2005 14:34:04




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 Re: i'm back, finally..... in reply to caseyc, 12-01-2005 14:24:04  
Glad you're back, too. And after reading about your weather, that I'm in SC and not SD. We had our ice storm for this decade two or three years ago. Look forward to another after I retire and have time to deal with it.
Wm



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