Running Bear’s April 2026 Coffee Shop

[RhB Michael]

better ask if he's a digger or a jumper. You might have an escape artist on your hands. Don't want to brin him home, then have him run off to Tumbuktu.

Lisl was a jumper. She could scale a 6' wall, and climb on top of an 8' wall.

This wall is 8' at the point she climbed and stood on it. It's a retaining wall at my pharmacy where we used to train.

 

[Rubicon]

Tomorrow, I pick up my rescue dog Murphy. I finished installing the dog door and his bed in my room. Interesting why do all these dog door ads have woman doing the installation. It's not that easy of a job to get done. Swal

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Best of luck tomorrow and I love the Murphy bed.

 

[DeaconKC]

Theft becomes felony after a certain amount?

Yup, Illinois is $300 as the break point.

 

[Snowman]

Mountain Lions (Puma) aren't uncommon here, even on the streets bordering the hills on the west side of town. I've seen one myself, chasing a HUGE buck one night who crashed into the front of a Subaru, got up, shook it off and trotted off down the street. The young cat saw me and aborted the chase (all of this on a no-moon but streetlit night). One also killed a deer in the alley behind my sister's house a year earlier.

But the neighbor then got lucky. He was on his second floor front balcony one night looking down at a big cat, licking its chops looking up at him from the front sidewalk of my sister's house next door. He said after the fact "I'm standing there gawking, and only found out later that a twelve foot vertical leap up to where I was is easy for a cat like that. I was a snack and didn't even realize it."

 

[chadbag]

A year ago someone in our neighborhood got a video of a cougar (mountain lion ) running down the street and then jumping the fence into a back yard.

 

[TLOC]

BREAKING: Wisconsin has officially been divided into regions… and honestly, nobody from Wisconsin is arguing too hard with it.
Up north? Pretty Much Canada. Once you get far enough in, the accents get stronger, the winters get meaner, and every gas station starts feeling like the last checkpoint before the wilderness.
Right below that is Real Wisconsiners. No gimmicks, no tourist brochure energy, just folks who’ve been here forever, know all the back roads, and can tell what kind of weather’s coming by how the wind feels in a parking lot.
Over by the lakes? Fancy Lake People. Cabins, boats, polished docks, and enough “just heading to the lake for the weekend” energy to make you wonder if everybody owns at least one cooler and three folding chairs.
In the middle-east you hit Packer Fan Zone. This isn’t just football territory… it’s a full religion. Game day is sacred, jerseys count as formalwear, and somebody’s emotional stability absolutely depends on what Green Bay does on Sunday.
Down south is Dairy Land. Cows, cheese, curds, barns, and people who take their supper clubs, creamery stops, and Friday fish fries very seriously.
And out west? Way More Farms. Not complicated. Just open land, long roads, tractors doing 22 in a 55, and enough fields to make you forget what a traffic jam even looks like.
And no matter where you are in Wisconsin… there’s always a guy in a hoodie in 38-degree weather, a pickup that’s seen some things, and somebody casually saying, “Eh, it’s not that cold,” while standing on a frozen driveway holding cheese and judging your jacket.

 

[Snowman]

So I flew up to Appleton to take possession of the truck I bought...from Colorado, but in Appleton. It's just inside the PackerFanZone, I think?

That said, I grew up a Bart Starr fan myself, so I get it.

 

[santafewillie]

I was in a casual conversation with two ladies after church this morning, and the subject of dishwashers came up. One asked me how often I run ours to clean it? I was taken aback because I thought that it was self-cleaning every time I ran it! What say you???
Sadly, I am still on standard time or I wouldn't be up this late.
Good Night.

 

[chadbag]

I was in a casual conversation with two ladies after church this morning, and the subject of dishwashers came up. One asked me how often I run ours to clean it? I was taken aback because I thought that it was self-cleaning every time I ran it! What say you???
Sadly, I am still on standard time or I wouldn't be up this late.
Good Night.

I didn’t used to but with our new one I run a “all natural” cleaning tablet through it empty twice a month. They’re made to be used twice a Month. There are other ones that are once a month. Supposed to clean out hard water deposits, fats and greases that get stuck in corners, etc.

no clue if it actually works.

 

[Kusojiji]

Illinois is $300 as the break point.

Wow, that's quite low, which is good IMO. I was thinking over $1K.

 

[Kusojiji]

then jumping the fence

She wasn't too old then... haha

 

[Kusojiji]

I thought that it was self-cleaning

That's what I would think as well. Let's see, soap, hot water, jet spray, clean! What else is there? Maybe a screen trap for the chunkies?

 

[Kusojiji]

easy for a cat like that

And then there was that tiger that cleared the elephant. Must've looked like the elephant was carrying meat around to the tiger.

 

[Bruette]

Don't want to brin him home, then have him run off to Tumbuktu.

Spoken like a man who knows Beagles and Beagles are not the only escape artists. Some dogs simply follow their nose wherever it takes them.

 

[bnsf971]

Good morning. It's clear and 59.

 

[Bill Tidler Jr.]

Good morning Coffee Shop, it's Monday! The temperature is 68°F (20°C) and partly cloudy.

Have a great day!

 

[migalyto]

I was in a casual conversation with two ladies after church this morning, and the subject of dishwashers came up. One asked me how often I run ours to clean it? I was taken aback because I thought that it was self-cleaning every time I ran it! What say you???
Sadly, I am still on standard time or I wouldn't be up this late.
Good Night.

Me personally, I know ours has a self cleaning cycle but I've never run it. I felt like you, and thought it cleaned itself every night. I do
clean the screen thing in the bottom periodically.

Our washer has a self clean feature too, but Ive also never used that.

 

[migalyto]

Good Monday morning all!

Its an unusually warm April morning. Currently its 62F under mostly cloudy skies/ The rain has pretty much left the area. It started
raining last night around 7:30 and was still coming down as a light drizzle when I went to be. High for today will be more like an
early summer day at 78F. Should see some sun later.

Usual stuff around the house today. Hopefully nothing big crops up.

Not too much else going on at the moment!

Have a safe day everyone!

 

[Patrick]

Morning all,

69° and cloudy going for 86° later. Humidity you can wear this morning.

Today I start to clear my stuff out of my office as I have to move to the old Senior Center while my current office gets taken to make the break room nobody uses larger. There is some rule of thumb that the architect uses to calculate the number of people to breakroom size. So as part of the shuffle, I need to vacate. I'll get a shiny new office once the first phase of the City Hall remodel is complete. Then they start phase 2 which brings the municipal court to the City Hall building. I avoid the PD building on Thursdays due to the weekly zoo that is the city court. Once here they're looking at adding Tuesdays as city court as well. It may be time to retire... (I have at least 2 more years).

The bidet works fine. Couldn't tell you what style, simply an attachment that mounts under the toilet seat (uses the seat bolts). I don't use it, never have as something about cold water on my tushy seems wrong. I only have to put the TP holder in place and seems I forgot the knobs on the cabinet. I'll have to drill the holes, but the knobs are one of the reasons I got that cabinet. My hand strength isn't what it used to be.

 

[troyphoto]

Well, howdy there internet peeps and those with dirty dishwashers.

The bane of Willie's existence!

It's Troy again.

Supposedly, one is supposed to put a bowl with 1-2 cups of vinegar upright in the top rack, and run the DW empty. This is after removing and cleaning drain screen around the rotator arm in the bottom of the tub.

Have I ever done that?

Nope. But I have cleaned the screen before.

Up today is laundry, the dishwasher, taking the cat to the vet for his monthly shot, and a trip to Costco.

In between. all of that, I need to disassemble the frame for old gaming table:

Got the top removed yesterday. I won't say which idiot, glued, brad-nailed, and screwed the top plywood to the under-structure, but it was more painful to remove than I expected. NO GLUE on the rebuilt ones.

Got the top sheet cut of nice plywood down into the various sections for the new tables. Cut the bottom sheet of OSB in half - one piece is needed for one of the new tables. the other is destined to move to the garage for make a "from the rafters" storage platform.