During the hot temperature days known as dog days, the Minnesota Twins baseball park has a cooling-off area for fans. The area can hold about 750 fans at one time with a suggested cooling time of no longer than five minutes. The entire room is concrete with overhead cool-water mist faucets. There are several floor drains. There are Twins’ personnel to supervise the premises. A big sign and also Twins’ personnel to warn you — you’re on your own with no responsibility by the Minnesota Twins.
For those of you on the bus Aug. 5 to Lutheran Night at the Twins, I suggest you check out the fans’ cooling-off area. By the way, this is a fact or fiction — you decide. In case you’re not on the bus, the area is scheduled to close Sept. 9 after the last three home games with the Cleveland Indians.
The following area citizens were born July 20, 1969: Ole Olson, Gunnar Gunnarson, Pete Peterson, Tollef Tollefson — as so named in Kathy Paulsen’s July 20 column. If my math is right, they are 50 years old. As I looked at the full moon July 16, I recalled 50 years ago on the 20th a man from earth was walking around on the moon. Wow! (The names of the Irishmen were included to give the guys a reason to celebrate their 50th birthday.)
It was so hot at the New Richland Farm & City Days pancake breakfast this year, the fire department was on stand-by alert, dressed in tank tops, shorts and flip-flops.
The state of Minnesota puts out fishing regulations yearly through the DNR. It is a wealth of information about fishing activities in Minnesota. For example, this year there’s a page on the removal of Y bones from northern pike and the facts of how to prepare and cook the fish. Rather than ask questions of the DNR, you are suggested to view an online video put out by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department! (Maybe Minnesota should have a video promoting the fixing of pheasant shot in South Dakota.)
The results are in from the University of Tennessee. Genie was not awarded a doctorate degree and I was not awarded a master’s degree in volunteering. (We both applied for the next step in our volunteer’s degree based on our volunteer activities from June 2018 through May 2019). They sent a nice decline letter, politely stating, “As a volunteer, if you don’t succeed, keep trying.” Genie and I plan on applying again after May of 2020.
The University of Iowa Veterinarian School at Ames held its annual convention the last week in July. The main topic was hoof and mouth disease, which in the human population is “foot in mouth disease.” The suggestion to prevent foot and mouth disease as a Republican was to play it cool in the use of words until after the 2020 election because of the current President.
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Bob is a retired AAL (Aid Association for Lutherans) agent, currently working on his master’s degree in Volunteering. His wife, Genie, is a retired RN, currently working on her doctor’s degree in Volunteering. They have two children, Deb in North Carolina, and Dan in Vermont. Bob says if you enjoy his column, let him know. If you don’t enjoy it, keep on reading, it can get worse. Words of wisdom: There is always room for God.