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All you guys that live in Madison or other larger then 10,000 towns get your weekly newspaper type fliers with car deals and so forth right?  In Columbus (pop 4,500) we get them but they seem to have a slightly different feel.  The one we got a few days ago had this front and center.

I guess there is no pickups on Sunday's.
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So I find out that Columbus Wisconsin was name AFTER Columbus Ohio! Seems Elbert Dickason and his wife Obedience (great name, I'm sure that would go over well now) liked Columbus Ohio so much they decided to call their new town Columbus.

Then I find out from my good friends that write the Cbus Transit blog (Moving People in Ohio's Capitol)  that "the state legislature created Ohio's capital in 1812ish it happened because there was a big uproar over whether it should be Chillocothe or Zanesville. When they (finally) decided, they were just gonna name it Ohio City, but one state legislator loved the stories of Columbus as a child and convinced them to change the name." 

So Columbus Wisconsin COULD have been named Chillocothe (from a Shawnee Indian name Chalahgawtha, meaning "principal town).Or we could be Ohio City Wisconsin but actually there already was going to be a Ohio Wisconsin - however when the dude took his horse to Washington to register the town they could not read his handwriting so the town became Rio Wisconsin! (true story).

Then I find out that the Cbus Transit is NOT going to have Street Cars but it was Cincinnati getting Street Car funding. They were just touting the victory for Cinci.

So now that Cbus Wisconsin has adopted Cbus Ohio and we anticipate revenue sharing (in theory)  I feel I should talk the Capital of Ohio into getting rickshaws and dumping their buses!

I've already ask the Transit company if they have any OLD buses Columbus WI could have and I believe they might or might not be taking me seriously.  So if our City Administrator Boyd Kraemer wakes up some morning and sees a bus or two parked on his lawn he can thank me!

I have not gotten any official confirmation on the bus deal yet but I'm sure there are meetings and paperwork going on as I type..  

WAIT A MINUTE - in the below clip - - - - - did I see a rickshaw at the 9 second mark??



Everything is moving back downtown? Isn't that what black holes do? Hands on Children? is that wise? And . . .what street????

ANYWAY - as I was looking around for the history of Columbus Wisconsin I found this site.  The History of Columbus City which oddly says "Elbert Dickason, constructed a home and lumber mill on the western side of the Crawfish River in 1839".  What a freaking coincidence. He did that in Wisconsin also!!!  WOW!!!  Life is to weird sometimes!
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I was talking to a woman today who was going on a vacation to Peru. Doing a lot of hiking and so forth.  THAT would be on my bucket list for adventure vacations!  So I was looking around and found this blog Heike's and Martin's adventure as they circumnavigate around the world! . . although now I see it happened 4 years ago LOL

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I was reading the Garden Web and there was a thread about the "dumbest mistakes you have made" while gardening.

Well, most of the comments were about putting the black landscape fabric on the ground. Most people will tell you that  landscape fabric is a scam and it really does not work at all.  Been there, done that, waste of money. 

Then there is the cutting of lines while digging.  But I believe MY experience is one of the best! 

Elweed and I had a wheelbarrow loaded with dirt - it was super heavy so we decided it would be smart if both of us took a side of the wheelbarrow and worked as a team.  So we each grabed one side and counted off,  1, 2, 3 LIFT!!  
That lasted no more then 1/2 second as we assumed each of us would lift at the exact same time with the exact same amount of lift.


In less then 1/2 second the barrow was on it's side and we were on the ground laughing.
And we wonder why my DJ worries about us?


I was at the farmers market Wednesday and took some more photos of some of the flowers for sale and found another Pandorian Perennial.

That had nothing to do with anything but I like the image.

Have a GREAT sunny weekend!

Rod