Grutz says, "Kate Smith is much, much faster than you." or "Saints are better than Gamblers." or "Sports, sports, sports, sports."

You're a Champion, Kate!

Kate celebrating with her Wahlert teammates at the Iowa Class 3A Championship.

Hot damn!  Little cousin Kate is a State Champ!  I couldn't believe my eyes reading the Telegraph Herald.  Dubuque Wahlert Girls won it's first team title, on the back of their sprint medley win on Saturday.  Kate ran the third leg and the team finished 1:49.13, just beating out Mt. Vernon/Lisbon by 0.73 seconds!  All the hard work and dedication payed off for Kate and the rest of the Wahlert team.  Give Kate a shout out.  We're so proud of you, Kate!

Dubuque tops Green Bay, 6-1 to with the Clark Cup.

.....and we'll keep on fighting to the end.  'Cos we are the Champions, we are the Champions!

And continuing with the sports theme... The Dubuque Fighting Saints won the USHL Clark Cup last night in Dubuque, over Green Bay, to win the best of 5 series, 3-1.  This is the first title for the Saints in 26 years (mind you, the Saints left Dbq for about 9 or 10 years).  It's been an amazing first season back in Dubuque at their new rink.  Of course, I don't want to take credit for anything, buuuuuuuuut......

A Fighting Saints promo back in August.  Who's giving the lucky, Clark Cup Champion high-five?  Nick is, that's who.

Well, I'm bushed.  That's my Dubuque sports fix for the week.  Have a beautiful Sunday, and once again, WAY TO GO KATE!!!!

Grutz says, "Aw yeah! Guess who's back in the TH?"

When the Saints go marching in...

The Dubuque Fighting Saints are in the Championships versus Green Bay and the Telegraph Herald is all over it. And guess who's all over the Telegraph Herald?

Uh-huh, it's me, again. Thanks Jon for the heads up.

Grutz says, "It's about time....."

Okay, okay, okay. I've been dragging my feet about this here blog. The thing about not having a job is that you have all the time in the world, yet it seems there's a reluctancy to tackle all those things that you'd like to do when you are slaving away at a job and battling Chicago traffic on two wheels. Well finally, here I am. Blogging. Yipee.

The dapper man at work.

And I'm also here, too in the ........(wait for it)...............TELEGRAPH HERALD!!! The tall, handsome man in red, yeah, that's not me. I'm the other fellow, on the bike. The shot was taken a week or two ago when Carleen and I were on route to the post office downtown. We saw a guy decked out in Saints hockey gear and gave him a shout out and the next thing we know, we're doing multiple takes for this commercial. Before you ask, the Dubuque Fighting Saints are back in Dubuque playing hockey again and the front office was doing some promotional shots and commercials for the up coming season. So all you tri-staters, keep on the lookout for a some dandy bicyclists in up-coming Saints commercials.

That's kept me busy, so has looking for a vehicle for our trip/journey of biblical proportions.

And lo, we will travel far, visit many, and, well, camp alot.

It's been challenging finding a car and giving up on the ol' pickup truck. I'm going to miss it something bad.

And for the Hawkeye Nation........

Need I say more?