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Hi Suzanne. Dyersville had very deep German-Catholic roots. There was a thriving Catholic grade school and high school, but the 5% of non-Catholics in town had to be bused 10 miles to the nearest public school.
When my family moved there we were Catholics--but Catholics of French ancestry. We were lucky to be accepted and even more lucky to have been able to barely afford the tuition.
On this visit I did see they now have a public grade school.
Great to hear from you.
Impressive! Yes, very much like the brick gothic in north Germany.
5 years agoThank you for your response, William. I had fun writing up this page. The quantity of roadkill was uncanny. As a non-fisherman, I don't know the difference between a DuPont spinner and a Lindy Rig which seems to be the favored lure up here in Minnesota, but I assume different lures work better for bass than the ones used for walleyes.
5 years agoI must say your roadkill finals laid me out. Having ridden acrosst Mississippi oncest, the (lack of) shoulders bothered me until I realized its a trap -luring indigenous species of wildlife and slurppie cups onto two lanes. Give a guy a fish pole and he can find a way to stay drunk weeks on end. A real fisherman uses DuPont spinners. Same principal. Make it easy.
5 years agoThank you.
Hey, I knew you were getting very close to leaving Taiwan but I didn't realize you were home yet. Congratulations on a most excellent five months of touring and blogging. I hope you get settled in quickly so you can finish up the journal. I might have a couple of comments and another congratulatory note for you.
Lovable buffoon! Too great. Looking forward to following along.
5 years agoGreat to be home again. I look forward to spending the next few weeks hanging out in coffee shops reading someone else’s blog for a change!
5 years agoI can see you're right, Bill. Darn it, that not only shows my ignorance, but it also kind of ruins my little joke.
5 years agoNotice the seed heads are more upright and smaller seeds.
https://www.maxpixel.net/Field-Sky-Bluegrass-Spring-Blue-Landscape-Green-1436383
Looks like maybe a crop of oats.
https://www.heritageseeds.com.au/field-crops-2/winter-crop-varieties/kowari.htm
Thank you. I absolutely love that name. "Cypress Knees" is such a cool name that I was just now inspired to write this short poem:
Stubby little stumps,
Bumby little bumps,
Not baby cypress trees,
They're little cypress knees.
Those are known as cypress knees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_knee
Yes, it's a Twilight Zone classic: William Shatner is an airline passenger who thinks he sees a man out on the wing during a storm. Nobody else sees it. Later, he sees the man is actually some kind of gremlin looking at him through the airplane window. He panics and starts shouting and sweating in fear. The flight crew still doesn't see anything out there and they have to restrain him. He goes crazy.
5 years agoThank you Bill, as always, for the identification.
5 years ago
You are correct. Technically, that is a dewberry, but blackberry is close enough!
5 years agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewberry