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SAVE OTTUMWA POST But this vernal equinox brought us a gorgeous sunny day with temperatures in the midforties.
Clean Glasses Ah, March. The month comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. This year March came in like a lamb, so traditionally the month should go out like a lion – weatherwise, but we’ll have to wait and see. There’s a lot to celebrate in March; Saint Urho’s Day, Saint Patrick’s Day, Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, followed by Lent, and of course spring. Fat Tuesday came early this year, catching me off guard, and we didn’t really do anything festive. But it did cause me to yearn for New Orleans, and some good Cajun style food. It took me two weeks, but March fifteenth I finally got around to making some Louisiana Red Beans and Rice with Andouille sausage; a spicy little dish with a nice glow. (Beware the Ides of March.) We enjoyed this meal with a cold Yuengling beer, which we bootlegged into Minnesota from Texas. The month moved along, and we came to the first day of spring. Normally, I consider spring in northern Minnesota to be the second coming of snow.
Melissa and I put on shorts and went out to the deck to bask in the sun; I even took off my shirt to catch some rays – good ole, natural vitamin D. Our black cat Edgar Allan, and dog June Bug, came out to join us. All our patio furniture was still snowed in, stored underneath the deck. So, we laid blankets and beach towels out on the wood top, and enjoyed the day laying out in the sun – just as a southerner may head for the beach on an exceptionally nice first day of spring. Sunbathing in forty-five-degree weather may sound crazy to some of you, but you’d have to understand the warmth and intensity that comes with the Minnesota sun. Around one-o-clock, a few clouds rolled in with a breeze. Just that quick, forty-five-degrees was way too cold to be out in just a pair of shorts. My arms and legs were covered with goosebumps. We gathered our blankets and retreated indoors. Melissa walked into the living room with a broom and a vacuum. It appeared she was going to start cleaning, so I tried to quietly slither back into the kitchen. I could escape out the back door and resume goofing off elsewhere on my first day of spring. It was too late – she already spotted me. “You could take these
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in the bucket of hot soapy water, then squeezed out the mop head and began swabbing the floors again. I laughed, “Spring in Minnesota – the second coming of snow.” Looking out over the yard gave me an idea. I decided to open a few windows to let the fresh air make its way through, airing out the house as part of our spring clean-
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a few feet away, checking our decoys will be on a wet log behind a etched in our minds. thorn bush with the cold More than once, I have rain beating down on sat with one of my sons me only to have a big in the early morning old gobbler sneak up light, talking in hushed behind me and scare tones, as gobblers me half to death with a called from the trees loud gobble from a few and the hens answered feet away. There is a from the ground. The thrill when the prey gets adrenaline flows and the better of the hunter. the excitement mounts A person remem- as we watch for a gobbers times like this, bler to fly down. In since so rarely does a the dim light the faint person get so startled shadows appear as the in the outdoors. I have light grows brighter and been in a blind in a the feeding birds get comfortable chair on a closer. A tom rattles off warm sunny day with a gobble and struts into my son when a gobview. Times like this are bler sneaked around remembered for a lifeour blind and appeared time. directly in front of us. I Sometimes you can honestly say, I do get your bird, and not remember if we got sometimes you don’t, that bird or not. I do but the hunt is always know, both of us will there. It is about being remember the experithere during the early ence. It is impossible to days of spring. It is forget the thrill of calleven better if you have ing a wise old bird in so a chance to share this close. special experience in The green grass, the outdoors with family warm sunshine coming or friends. in the tent, and a turkey
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306 N. Weller Street, Tilford Stanley Manary to Delbert L. Manary, $59,000 108 N. Vine Street, Jeffrey to $59,500. A. England to Lamis Farms Inc., $95,000 to $95,500. 1228 Greenwood Drive, Richard W. Schlotter to 615 and 617 N. Court Shane Patrick Frazier and Street, Jeff L. McCall and Jade Glosser, $65,000 to Dana E. McCall to Daniel $65,500. A. Tucker and Jason D. Tucker, No Amount Listed 730 Lillian Street, Ricky L. Rachford and Michelle February 24, 2022 Rachford to Kale C. 12003 118th Avenue GerCritchlow and Emery A. aldine Anderson to Robert Neer, $70,000 to $70,500. Barnett and Kelly Barnett, $155,000 to $155,500. March 03, 2022 651 Hamilton Street, John February 23, 2022 A. Sholes to Travis Decker 814 Ogden Street; 354 N. and Colleen Decker, McLean Street; 1003 Ches$83,000 to $83,500. ter Avenue; 1421 Chester Avenue; 1514 Chester Av430 N. Weller Street, Lisa enue; 409 S. Davis Street; Post to Roger Brownfield 1025 Boone Avenue; 620 and Krista Brownfield, S. Davis Street; 132 S. $55,000 to $55,500. Ward Street; 217 Wildwood Drive; 229 Wildwood March 02, 2022 Drive; 534 Lillian Street; 330 and 332 E. Main 521 S. Milner Street; 246 Street, Fred Zesiger and S. Schuyler Street, Charles Timothy Schwartz to GeBaird to Nathan D. Overvock Real Estate LLC, turf, $300,000 to $300,500. $330,000 to $330,500. 5581 Cemetery Road, 411 Appanoose Street, Brent Edel and Kari Edel Andrew Watson to Alyssa to Anthony J. Weber, N. Fangmann, $105,000 to $320,000 to $320,500. $105,500. 207 Carter Avenue, Timo416 N. Jefferson Street, thy L. Hall and Christine L. John A. Sholes to Hallie L. Headington-Hall to Rodney Kirby, $77,250 to $77,750. A. Requena and Whitney R. Requena, $210,000 to March 01, 2022 $210,500. 319 Waverly Street, Debbie Karfis and Panagiotis 207 S. Willard Street, RipApostolopoulos to Theopling Waters to Jeffrey Cox, poula Hasapis, $32,000 to $145,000 to $145,500. $32,500. Vacant Ground in Wapello 6553 Camp Arrowhead County, Wayne Burl ScherRoad, Agency, Eric James er to Douglas M. Flynn Walter to Marsha Wright and Fletcher M. Flynn, and Katherine Toom, $600,000 to $600,500. $190,000 to $190,500. February 22, 2022 109 W. Main Street, Agen- 7627 Cliffland Road, Gary cy, Dacota LLC to Kathleen W. Applegate (executor Boyd, $46,000 to $46,500. of the Estate of Goldie M. Applegate) to Nicholas 2-4 Michelle Drive, DA InC. Riedel, $150,000 to vestment Properties LLC to $150,500. EHCTET Properties LLC, $165,000 to $165,500. 314 E. Main Street, Villeda’s Property Management February 28, 2022 LLC to Appanoose Rapids 200 Selma Street, Eldon, Mercantile LLC, $30,000 to Estate of Shelly Jean $30,500. Miller to Charles C. Knott, $15,115.37 to $15,615.37. 22271 Bluegrass Road, Benjamin Taylor and Bri233 S. Schuyler Street, Ty anne Taylor to Taylor Land Van Nguyen and Phoung Holdings LLC, No Amount V. Nguyen to Noemi Ruiz, Listed. $37,500 to $38,000. 15075 Al-Jon Avenue, 614 Wabash Avenue, Con- GGS Land Holdings LLC to nie J. Brackett to Federal MTP-15075 Al-Jon AvNational Mortgage Assoenue LLC, $10,090,000 to ciation, No Amount Listed. $10,090,500. February 18, 2022 304 W. Mary Street, Jose 709 Church St., Eldon, N. Gonzalez Ulloa and Ju- Cole A. Smith to Ronald E. dith V. Hernandez Resend- Pauls, $50,000 to $50,500. iz to Like Home Properties LLC, $35,000 to $35,500. 114 N. Hancock Avenue, Miranda B. Ferguson to February 25, 2022 W/Y Real Estate Invest313 W. Division Street, ments LLC, $60,000 to Mark McVey and Karen $60,500. McVey to Jennifer Rysdam, $33,000 to $33,500. 505 Lynwood Circle, Ah Tun Than and Thae S. 8461 Fox Hills Road, Yee to Aaron Archibald S.
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A. Goode and Janice C. Goode Revocable Living Trust dated Sept. 28, 225 Northview Avenue, 2001) to Brent Edel and William M. Ash to James Kari Edel, $104,000 to M.H. Clingman and Judy $104,500. J. Clingman, $70,000 to 719 McKinley Avenue, $70,500. Function Four LLC to Hailey J. Beeson, $99,900 to 430 S. Davis Street, Estate $104,500. of Louise Orlena Fenton to Cecelia Lizalde Velascos, February 15, 2022 $97,000 to $97,500. 209 E. Woodland Avenue, Angela Green to Spen45 Schwartz, Drive Joshua cer Staton, $100,000 to A. Reynolds and Jennifer $100,500. L. Reynolds to Heather Jorgensen, $187,000 to 1624 W. Second Street, $197,500. Ashley Dawn Jennings to William Kahl and Megan M. 117 W. Rochester Road, Kahl, $3,500 to $4,000. Biegler, Puckett and Kuhlmann Investments LLC 457 S. Ward Street, Seven to Midwestern Investment Seas Properties LLC to Group LLC, $3,920,000 to Cindy L. Murphy, $89,900 $3,920,500. to $90,400. 732 N. Green Street, Bluebird Holding Trust to Ana Guzman, $40,000 to $40,500. February 17, 2022 7167 80th Avenue, Agency, Gale Dunkin and Terry Dunkin to Karl Duane Johnson and Patricia Ann Ferrie Johnson, $155,000 to $155,500. 13688 Angle Road, Ryan D. Lefeber and Katherine E. Lefeber to Christine Savage and Terence Savage, $228,000 to $228,500. 1018 E. Plum Street, Natalia Mena to Leslie Salas Villatoro, $47,000 to $47,500. February 16, 2022 Unimproved Land in Wapello County, Darl A. Goode (trustee of Daryl
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(Just the Other Day con’t little bottle of glass cleaner, and clean the affected on from 2) area. ing. “This glass could use Dad was the same way a good cleaning too,” I with his glasses. He was said as I lifted the sash. constantly cleaning them. Our windows tip inward, making the panes easy to clean. I thought about my I started wearing glasses dad cleaning the windows when I was about two years old. As a kid, my when I was younger. dad was always taking my glasses from my face, First, he would remove the storm windows. Then “How can you see through climb his stepladder with a these?” If we were outside, he would huff a small pail of soapy water couple of times, covering and a rag. After washing the window, he would my glasses with steam from his breath, then polclear the water with a squeegee. Then, he’d pull ish them with his handkerchief. On a rare occasion, a clean soft cotton rag, if he didn’t have a hanky, usually on old cloth diaper, from his back pocket he would use his soft cotand polish the glass. Dad ton shirttail. would carefully inspect the glass to assure there were I liked it when Dad no smudges or worse yet, cleaned my glasses in the house. He would go streaks. to a sink, let the water run until it was hot. Dad If he found one, Dad would soap his hands with would huff his hot breath on the spot, then move his bar soap, then clean my glasses with the suds on rag in small circular motions, cleaning the defec- his hands. He’d wash the lenses and the frames; tive area. He’d come off even the bows. He’d rinse the ladder to inspect the my glasses, then set glass from the ground. If it was sparkling clean, he them on the edge of the would go back up the lad- sink. He’d dry his hands, der to put the screen over then use the towel to dry the window for the upcom- my glasses. After they were dry, he’d polish the ing warmer days. lenses with his hanky. Dad always expressed the imDad was always a stickportance of having clean ler for clean glass. The glasses. windows on his car were always spotless – inside and out. On occasion, one When he put the glasses back on my face, they of the kids would touch a were warm. He’d work window in his car. “Dog the fitted bows around the gone it. Look at that. You back of my ears with his left fingerprints on the window.” He complained, warm hands. His touch was gentle and felt good. “You don’t need to touch The world always looked the glass to look out the window.” Then Dad would like a whole new, brighter place after Dad cleaned go to the truck, get his
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my glasses. Then, he would pull his black plastic comb from his pocket to groom my hair. Those were beautiful memories. I have those same memories with my daughter Delaney, who also wore glasses as a little kid. I would take them from her face, hold them up to the light, “How can you see through these things?” Now I do the same thing with my granddaughters. I wonder if someday they will have the same fond memories. The spring weather was still around when we finished cleaning the house. I put a chocolate cake in the oven, and fired up the Weber grill. Melissa asked if I’d like a beer with dinner. After the incident a few nights earlier, I decided to just have water. Several nights earlier Melissa asked if I’d like to share the last Yuengling beer. (Bootlegged in from Texas) “Sure,” I said. She poured half the bottle of Yuengling into a small glass for me. I drank the
brew before we ate our Louisiana Red Beans and Rice dinner. Then I rinsed the glass and set it on the kitchen counter; or, at least I thought I did. Later, after dinner, Melissa and I split a Snickers bar while watching a movie. I wanted just a couple of swallows of milk, so I went to the kitchen. There was no need to turn on the lights, the light from the fridge would suffice. I also didn’t see the need to dirty another glass – I’d just use the glass I rinsed out after my beer. I poured a little milk in the glass and drank it. “YUCK! This milk is spoiled.” I declared. Then I remembered, I never drank the rest of my beer. I poured the milk in the glass that still had beer in it. Yuck! I’m trying to decide if I should close this story with a reminder from Dad of the importance of always having clean glasses, or write it off as Beware the Ides of March.