Mongo's blog

Int’l Falls welcomes the Big Union guys currently refurbishing the Boise plant from stem to stern. For sure, local merchants get a well needed boost, especially the folks who sell booze. These boiler makers not only repair them by day, they drink them by night. “We work hard and we play hard,” slurred Daryl Pettibone (not his real name) as he staggered from his truck totin’ a half gallon of Wild Turkey from the front seat. “I’m back BOYS!”

It seems UFO’s are reported more frequently these days. I believe the “snicker factor” has been falling at the same pace reports rise. The fear of people making sport of a citizen making such claims is less inhibiting. Five decades ago, when I was a youngster of eleven, (1958) my brother and I saw one. It was early summer at about ten in the morning. A beautiful, warm day in Amery, Wisconsin. Together, Jim and I stepped out of our house with a can of worms and our cane poles.