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Bob Felderman and all the 365 friends and advertisers. { dubuque365 / 365ink } 401 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 All contents © 2011, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Where’s Wando? We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find the master of movies buried within these pages? 2 { july 21 - august 3 } 365ink www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } two bowls of split-plea soup to go, eh! The summer days are melting away, literally it would be a nice low-impact break from lately, and my Things-To-Get-Done-Around- all that mulching. The tendonitis in my left The-House-This-Summer list is proving wrist apparently does not like squeezing the more daunting than it seemed in May when handle on the power washer for that long. It the cold wouldn’t break and I was sure told me so during an agonizing two hours summer would never get here. of throbbing during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. It’s not so much that I’m not getting anything done. It’s just that each job seems to be So as summer is slipping by and my list still exponentially bigger and more involved than I has some pretty significant items left on it, expected. I call it the metric conundrum. I blame I have decided that it’s time to take some Canada. On their Great White North album, Bob broad strokes in dealing with the house. & Doug McKenzie explain the metric system For starters, we’re going to see if deck sealer in a very simple, easy to explain way: “Double will go on with a roller instead of a brush. it and add 30.” They were talking temperature We’re also going to address those heavily conversion, but then extrapolated that to overgrown bushes in the side of the house donuts, as in a dozen American donuts = 54 not with an electric hedge trimmer but with a Metric donuts, or more accurately, crullers. Who damn chainsaw. The kidding around is pretty am I to dispute that kind of beautiful math? Plus, much over as Carl Spackler would say. You Iw as listening to Rush while I mulched. know, the greens keeper from Caddyshack. So I extrapolate that logic to measure the And speaking of Carl, it also time to say “au actual workload of house remodeling and revoir go-pher” to that groundhog living it yard work. Thus we can assume that 1 hour up like Jabba the Hut under my deck. He’s of mulching my yard will take me (double it taken to coming up from hiding while and add 30)... 32 metric hours to complete. I’m standing right there, just taunting me That feels right. According the pain in my with his presence. I guess it’s pretty much back, I think I spent about 40 hours working just a matter of pumping about 15,000 in my yard Saturday afternoon. And the gallons of water down there, to teach three cubic yards of mulch that fit into my him a little bit of a lesson. Can I do that pickup at the Dubuque Mulch Company with a power washer? We should find out. should convert to 36 metric yards (those Because I had dreams of a new kitchen silly Canadians would call them meters and a retaining wall in my front yard this or something stupid like that). Except the summer and this fuzzy little foreigner conversion must work in reverse with mulch, is not going to keep my from achieving because my vision of a yard beautifully my dreams. But then again, if my dreams covered in mulch ran out after the front yard. for summer involve humping tons of Though lovely, it takes a lot more of this stuff limestone, I probably have bigger issues the cover a square yard than I expected. Did than one pesky groundhog. I mention my back is killing me? I carried it all in a bushel tub, one load at a time. Oh, and in case Sara does not share this tidbit in her Steve’s Ace article this issue, Okay, so I know everything about math I have one other piece of advice. Don’t try that I just explained above is complete to assemble a deck swing by yourself in the hogwash. But when you are on your fourth dark when the only light you have to assist day of power-washing your deck, you’ll the process needs to be activated by waving start to look for any explanation you can your hand in the air to trip the sensor every to justify spending 4 days power-washing sixty seconds! It’s a great way to turn a 30 your deck. Especially when you thought minute assembly into a nightmare. www.Dubuque365.com 365ink { july 21- august 3 } 3 { community briefs } i once had a greasy pizza and giant bag of powdered donuts with santa, but that was after a bender. movement when it approved the right to prior to the wreck. She doesn’t even know her vote for African-Americans, and a computer real name. Cyril tells Felicity that she is his wife program that allows visitors to research Civil but Cryil’s nefarious schemes are thwarted War ancestors by person, town, township or to the delight of all. Plan to come cheer the congressional district. For more informa- hero, boo the villain, and encourage the hero- tion, visit www.iowahistory.org/education/ ine. There will be surprise olio acts between history-on-the-move.html. acts of the play. Dates for the play are the evenings of July 21, 22, 23,28,29, & 30 at 7:00 Galena Art Theater: p.m. with afternoon matinees on July 24 and .The Fiery Trial: Caught in the Villain’s Web or 31 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door. Iowa and the Civil War More Sinned Against Than Sinning Through July 24 July 21-31 Mathias Ham House Turner Hall The historic Mathias Ham House hosts Galena Art Theater (GAT) celebrates 24 21-31 JULY a special traveling exhibit The Fiery JULY the organization’s 50th season with Trial: Iowa and the Civil War now through eight performances of Caught in the Villain’s Sunday, July 24. Unveiled earlier this year in Web or More Sinned Against Than Sinning conjunction with activities commemorating written by Herbert E. Swayne, and made the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, this available by Samuel French publishers. Felic- mobile exhibit is housed in a 32-foot trailer ity Fair, down trodden heroine, is a nurse sent as part of the State Historical Museum’s edu- to the Larkfield mansion to attend a hard- Pancakes With Santa to that carried by the gallery. Watercolorist cational outreach program to serve Iowans hearted society matron who is pretending to Saturday, July 23, 8 p.m. -11 a.m. Roseann Derks will be featured on Saturday, in their communities. The Fiery Trial exhibit be ill to force her son, Malvern, to marry the Westminster Presbyterian Church July 23. Other upcoming artists in the Sat- includes a visual timeline of Iowa’s participa- scheming Nella Hargrave. Malvern takes one Christmas in July... and with this urday series include mosaic artist Stephanie 23 tion in the Civil War, panels about Iowans look at Felicity and falls in love. When Mal- JULY heat, not a minute too soon. West- Failmezger on July 30 and oil painter Nancy and their Civil War experiences, information vern proposes he is unaware that villain Cyril minster Presbyterian Chursh will host Pan- Lindsay on August 6. For more information, about Annie Wittenmyer, a Sanitation Agent Bothingwell is behind a screen listening. Felic- cakes With Santa on Satuday, July 23rd call (563) 583-9343, or visit: www.otlag.com. for Iowa who oversaw the needs of Union ity sadly informs Malvern that she can never from 8 until 11 a.m., as a fundraiser for St.