Milwaukee Midget

[fordboy628]

Patience Grasshopper, patience.

My best advice is:  "Don't fix something that isn't broken."

At least find out if there is room for improvement first, before committing to spending the big bucks.    

There would be no valid reason, that I can think of, to take a perfectly good cylinder head, spend ~$$$$.00, and not have it be significantly better.

Oh wait, I have seen several examples of that before, one BMC specific.   Nobody was ever happy afterward . . . . . . . .         GO FIGURE . . . . . .

Fordboy

[Milwaukee Midget]

Patience Grasshopper, patience.

I thought I had graduated from "Grasshopper", to some other higher form arthropod.

And speaking of shrimp - I'm in the middle of milk cow county, about 3 miles from the EAA Museum in Oshkosh.

Just had shrimp alfredo at 2 Brothers resturant.

Milwaukee is sometimes called "Cream City", but tonight, I am clearly in a margerine free zone.

[Tman]

Looks like good progress!

[4-barrel Mike]

From Wikipedia:

The Milwaukee Bridge War, sometimes simply the Bridge War, was an 1845 conflict between different regions of what is now Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the construction of a bridge crossing the Milwaukee River.

By the 1840s, there had grown a great rivalry between Juneautown—east-side Milwaukee—and Kilbourntown—west-side Milwaukee—mostly due to the actions of Byron Kilbourn, Kilbourntown's founder, who had been trying to isolate Juneautown to make it more dependent on Kilbourntown.

In 1840, the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, finding the ferry system on the Milwaukee River to be "inadequate", ordered the construction of a bridge. Kilbourn and his supporters viewed the bridge as a threat to their plans. Furthermore, the two towns disputed over the funding for the bridge; ultimately, this led to Kilbourn destroying part of the bridge in 1845. Mobs formed on the east side of the river, but further violence was prevented for two more weeks when two smaller bridges were destroyed by men from Juneautown in an attempt to cut Kilbourntown off from the east and south side.

Eventually, skirmishes broke out between the inhabitants of the two towns; no one was killed, although several people were injured, some seriously.

It was in the aftermath of the Bridge War that Juneautown and Kilbourntown began making greater attempts at cooperation, ultimately resulting in, on January 31, 1846, their unification as the City of Milwaukee.

   

Mike

[Milwaukee Midget]

And we still have a geographic anomaly of that war . . .



To prevent the possibility of uniting the east and west sides, Kilbourn had the street grid on the west side set up in a way which would discourage a bridge.  So now, there is a kink in the path right over the river.

And while the rest of the streets are pretty well aligned, this winter has torn up the roads well enough that keeping a car in alignment is virtually impossible. 

[Stainless1]

It's a rye night, tonight.


Picked up a bottle of this - #253 of 544 produced - saving it for Speedweek -

http://www.greatlakesdistillery.com/spirits/menomonee-valley-rye/?age-verified=ad8cf7ea36

Saving    Surely you tasted it to ensure it is good enough for your friends to drink...

edit, kept displaying wrong, windows is smarter than me... so it thinks

quite tasty

[Milwaukee Midget]

It's a rye night, tonight.


Picked up a bottle of this - #253 of 544 produced - saving it for Speedweek -

http://www.greatlakesdistillery.com/spirits/menomonee-valley-rye/?age-verified=ad8cf7ea36

Saving    Surely you tasted it to ensure it is good enough for your friends to drink...

quite tasty

I HAVE tasted it!  My good neighbor Chris Surek stopped by before Christmas and brought over some.

I learned my lesson at Bonneville in 2010 -

NEVER SHOW UP WITH ANYTHING THAT'S UNTESTED!    

[Milwaukee Midget]

WHOA! You found a bottle in KANSAS!

You are wise, Stainless - VERY WISE!

Drinkin' from the same barrel, I see!

[Stainless1]

got the pics to work, in previous post finally... mine is #172...
Sorry guys, it will never make it to Bonneville alive  


The internet is a wonderful thing 

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Speaking of the Milwaukee MIDGET - - here's Chris and his not-quite-as-tall-as-he-is wife Kate. 

[Milwaukee Midget]

Somebody's been peeking at Nancy's Facebook page.

The picture is not color corrected - it's really that cold in Beerhaven this winter.

[Geo]

Seems Chris has been distracted. I hoped he would find a way to get some rye my way and he has been working on it:

http://news.yahoo.com/craft-brewer-39-drone-delivery-hopes-put-ice-223417847.html

How's that Lakemaid?

Geo

[Milwaukee Midget]

Seems Chris has been distracted. I hoped he would find a way to get some rye my way and he has been working on it:

http://news.yahoo.com/craft-brewer-39-drone-delivery-hopes-put-ice-223417847.html

How's that Lakemaid?

Geo

Oh, good lord -

Geoff - not only do I owe you an apology, I owe you beer.

Last year, when I was preparing for my speech at the Kimber Festival, Geo graciously sent me a scan of an article written by Goldie Gardner regarding their efforts at Bonneville in 1952.  I promised him "compensation", but completely forgot about it.

Let me get the omelet off of my face, and I'll run down to Rays and get that handled.

I am SO SORRY!

Poor guy - stuck in Kansas - no real beer . . .

Regarding the Kimber Festival for 2014 -

My friend, Dick Knudson, is a co-founder of the New England M.G. T Register, and was a personal friend of Captain George "E.T." Eyston - one of the initial members of the 200 mph club.  He will be presenting a talk about "The Captain" on the weekend of April 4-6, 2014, at The Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine.

http://www.nemgtr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=267&Itemid=286

The Owls Head Museum includes about 50 vintage automobiles, and 5 pre-Wright Flyer aircraft.  I'm fighting scheduling issues at work this year, but from those I know who have been there, it is a "must see" for anybody interested in transportation history.

http://www.ohtm.org/index.html

[Milwaukee Midget]

There just comes a time and a place when a guy has to say, "Enough is ENOUGH!"

Today is Ground Hog Day – the day when the Ground Hog digs up out of his burrow, pokes his head up, and determines if we will have 6 more weeks of winter, or if spring is right around the corner.

If the Ground Hog does not see his shadow, spring is right around the corner.  If the Ground Hog sees his shadow, then we have 6 more weeks of winter.

So I got up bright and early on this clear, sunny, yet bitterly cold February morning, and welcomed the Ground Hog . . .



. . . and I'm happy to report that the Ground Hog DID NOT SEE HIS SHADOW.

[fordboy628]

Patience Grasshopper, patience.

I thought I had graduated from "Grasshopper", to some other higher form arthropod.

Patience, Cicada, patience.

I just walked back in the door from the kingdom of Harland Sanders, where it was 62 degrees yesterday.

I have come home to 4" of white crap on the driveway and 17 degrees Fahrenheit . . . . .


On the upside however, Matt is back from Afghanistan, physically unscathed.