Screen Play for Public Enemies becomes available

JUST IN CASE you were looking for more Public Enemies - THIS LINK will download a PDF of the original Screen Play, all 191 pages (meaning it's big)!!

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What is better then a barrel full of Monkeys?  . . Well . . .actually pretty much anything I suppose but on Sunday the grandson of Frank Hess(Frank J. Hess and Sons Cooperage) will have a presentation on the making of Oak beer barrels at the Senior Center in Columbus.  Columbus was the home of the largest beer barrel manufacture in Wisconsin and made barrels for the Fauerbach, Kurth (the largest brewery in American for awhile) and many other Brewery's in Wisconsin.

The program is a fund raiser for the Columbus Library Expansion and for $15 you will have a meal (12:30 Sunday)  with four varieties of soups made by Alice Schmidt who seriously makes OUTSTANDING soup and sandwiches along with a sample tasting of three other soups.  After the presentation the Kurth Brewery will have a rare Sunday opening.

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On the way to work today I was thinking of a project that would involve every Mayor of Columbus!  Of course some of them have passed.  But  . . . hmmmmm . . . there has to be a joke in there somewhere but . . . . perhaps I'll pass on this opportunity.

ANYWAY - I have this idea floating around in my head .

Not only do I have the Badger Motor Car Company rattling around but now I have all the Mayors!  Getting crowded in my brain. (Photo on right is a 1911 Badger touring car, 4-cyl 30 hp - "Pleasing color, Classy in Outline, a Hill Climber with Power to Burn"). A total of 237 Badgers were built. 

If you are ever looking for the History of Columbus check out the library for the reference books called "Fred Stare History of Columbus".   It's rather dry with minutia details of everything so it's a little hard to find the BIG things but it's all there for the insomniacs.   

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My very first flowering perennial have  . . begun to flower.  Our rock wall is taking shape.  This is one of the hardest types of walls to get plants started.  Because the boulders on stacked vertically you have to fill in all the cracks which sometimes seem to be bottomless.

When we moved in there was zero dirt between the boulders and picking the right plants has been more of a live or die process.  If it lives it stays!  this is facing almost due east.  In the next few weeks I'm going to plant periwinkles (vinca minor) under the deck. Perfect for shade and it will slowly kill all weeds.

These are on top of the boulders and have doubled in size.

The next shot looks straight down from the deck (cloudy early morning . . not a glamor shot).  The exciting thing about this shot is the ground cover that is going around that rock.  We planted two tiny sprigs last year and now it's traveling around the rock.

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On a fantastic side note about Columbus is that the City Council authorized that the Columbus Development Authority go ahead with their TIF#4 and TIF #5 plans.  TIF#4 is the area near the Cardinal Ale House area and the more exciting TIF#5 is the area around Uday dam. Making that area a "go to" destination with parks and maybe little stores? (probably insurance stores LOL).      

When I get the actual plans (which I can't seem to find at the moment) I'll fill you in.

Now if we can get the Columbus Chamber of Commerce to get off their ass and do something. Don't businesses pay to be represented by Chamber?  What do they get out of that? What am I missing, is it just a good ol boys club?   Certainly no recognition that Columbus is a place to set up a business.  Do they just keep the money for parties?  WHERE IS THE WEBSITE!!!

Come on Chamber - get off your butts and do something for Columbus or let someone else be in charge if you can't handle it.  The website has been broken for years - It's embarrassing.  I know some people that are on Chamber they do a lot work but the leadership seems to be dropping the ball and not caring.

You have a town that is moving forward and all cylinders are clicking but Chamber seems to be in their own world of not doing anything to promote Columbus (website).  

 Fall River has their act together!!  Well done guys!  Can you take over our chamber?

rant over!  If I'm wrong please let me know and I will rescind the rant but seriously . . . . . .I'm just telling it like I see it.

Have a Tuesday.

OH - I will not speak of all the confidence I have in Doug Davis right now!  Bring on Suppan!

Rod