Our home is on 4.5 acres that features nearly 800' of frontage on a Class 1 trout stream. We can't see any neighbor's houses from any window of our home. Here's a view out our kitchen window, looking east early on a June morning. Two large dogs and 4 cats (all indoor pets) have us looking into buying stock in vacuum cleaner bag manufacturers. Did I mention the 4 indoor rabbits, the Fire Skink, the 2 salamanders, the 3 African Clawed Frogs or the 4 aquariums?
K9UW's Other Passions
Family
XYL (Lara, ex KB9CRU) knows my faults but still lets me come home every night. She sees that I'm making a feeble attempt to clean the ham shack and says "Who's coming over?". 10th and 12th grade harmonics are slightly interested in what goes on in the shack. Time will tell!
Community
Service : Elected to my 11th term on the Board (this time as Chairperson) of the Town of
Lanark (Portage County, WI) in April 2017. Brought to Wisconsin by settlers, Wisconsin's form of Town government is patterned on the New England model and it is hard to imagine a more democratic form of government. What other form of government allows citizens to directly vote on how much to tax themselves? I also serve (initially elected in 2001) as the Chair of the Portage County Unit of the Wisconsin Towns Association. In this role, I select topics for and run bimonthly educational forums for elected officials from 17 towns and 5 villages. I also represented over 30,000 Town residents on the County's EMS Oversight Board from 2006-2016, serving as its Vice Chair for several terms.
Family
XYL (Lara, ex KB9CRU) knows my faults but still lets me come home every night. She sees that I'm making a feeble attempt to clean the ham shack and says "Who's coming over?". 10th and 12th grade harmonics are slightly interested in what goes on in the shack. Time will tell!
Community
Service : Elected to my 11th term on the Board (this time as Chairperson) of the Town of
Lanark (Portage County, WI) in April 2017. Brought to Wisconsin by settlers, Wisconsin's form of Town government is patterned on the New England model and it is hard to imagine a more democratic form of government. What other form of government allows citizens to directly vote on how much to tax themselves? I also serve (initially elected in 2001) as the Chair of the Portage County Unit of the Wisconsin Towns Association. In this role, I select topics for and run bimonthly educational forums for elected officials from 17 towns and 5 villages. I also represented over 30,000 Town residents on the County's EMS Oversight Board from 2006-2016, serving as its Vice Chair for several terms.