Walnuts to beat the band!

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2013 Walnuts (pile)
This is what 200 gallons of walnuts look like…

I spent last weekend picking up walnuts.  I lost count on the number of buckets, but I’m estimating I picked up over 200 gallon.  I was too lazy to drag them up and weigh them, but they weren’t light.  We have four walnut trees and we had a bumper crop.    I have a Nut Wizard that works pretty good for picking them up, but this year they were so thick that even that was a challenge.  It does well with one nut, but when you are running across a clump of 5, it doesn’t have the opportunity spread out and pick them up.

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Culver Coffee Company Oktoberfest Beer Garden

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This Saturday, October 19 from 6-midnight is our OKTOBERFEST BEER GARDEN at the Brockey Insurance Parking Lot. This is what’s in store! 

  • 6:00-8:00 Live Entertainment-Hutch!
  • 8:30-11:30-Live Entertainment by Acoustically Speaking!
  • Randy’s Famous Brats! And the ‘heart-attack special’ burger that he says you won’t want to miss!
  • Firepits, Hay Bales, Pumpkins Galore
  • BEER AND WINE! Including our local brewery- Evil Czech’s beer in the mix!

           Glass of Beer

      It’s going to be the biggest and best beer garden yet, you won’t want to miss it!

Come check out our addition to a great fall festival weekend in Culver. Our 7th Annual Oktoberfest Beer Garden is sure to be a memorable one!

“The Culver Coffee Company” & “Brockey Insurance”

MUST BE 21 or Older with Valid ID

Cover Charge of $3 from 6-10

*  This post is reprinted from an email from The Culver Coffee Company and is posted here in support of their local business.

What’s a WECS?

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Depiction of the large scale WECS’s that the Concerned Citizens protested at the County Level

Representatives from the Concerned Property Owners of Marshall County requested that Culver change their zoning ordinance regarding WECS’s and as a result, the Culver Plan Commission held a Public Hearing on an ordinance change at their August 2013 meeting.   (WECS is the acronym for Wind Energy Conversion Systems and applies to any device that takes wind energy and converts it to usable forms of energy.)  The initial request was for Culver to match the County’s zoning requirements which currently bans commercial WECS’s and allows residential systems with a Special Use Permit in selective zoning districts.  Unfortunately audience members requested that the ordinance be tweaked to further restrict residential systems as well.  At that time I spoke up and reminded the Plan Commission that they had recently created an A1 – Agricultural District with the intention of mirroring Marshall County’s A1 district.  This was done to eliminate discrepancy protests to extending our Territorial Authority.   The Commission agreed with my argument but still had some reservation so they decided to table the issue.

At the September Culver Plan Commission meeting the topic came up again. Russ Mason, Building Commissioner, had conversations with some farmers and had made some minor tweaks to the height restrictions for WECS’s.  Audience members also spoke up and protested the allowance of WECS’s in residential areas even under the special use requirements.  I again spoke up with two points:

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Audiologist Humor

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I was at an Audiologist conference with my wife, Becky, the last few days.  Below’s a sample of Audiologist humor from the Resound blog.  You’ll see what I’ve been putting up with for the last few days.  Putting up with it at a resort retreat wasn’t bad though.  If I’d been healthy it would have been better.  I came down with a cold the day before we left and I’m still fighting it now.  Unfortunately for Becky, all of her quality time with me has resulted in her catching it now too.

One thing I’ve decided.  Audiologists like corny jokes… and Alcohol…  Lots of Alcohol!  So here you go…

Audiologist Pick-up Lines:

  • Want to come over and study forced oscillation and resonance factor?
  • Trust me, I am a doctor.
  • I bet no one can put you in a supine position faster and better than me.
  • Want to learn the log roll?
  • Two words: Fixation denied.
  • Ask me about down ten up five
  • I know the Sabine’s Reverberation Equation. Want to come and test it out in my boudoir?
  • We do it periodically with frequency and great amplitude.
  • Between you and me, we can make Longitudinal waves and Transverse waves.
  • Let’s measure how loud and how far your voice can propagate via simple means of compression and rarefaction.
  • Bone oscillation. Need I say more?
  • Audiology. We bring the “Oooo?!” in Otolaryngology
  • Allow me to find your natural frequency
  • Does the word tinnitus ring a bell?
  • Someday I will find the cure to tinnitus (that ringing noise you hear in your ears) and win the “No Bell” prize.