MAP and CHEESE: 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025

Snoopy's Cat Fight

The GoComics Peanuts strip has been featuring Snoopy and Linus trying to retrieve his blanket from the cat next door.

Found a YouTube video depicting the story!

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Highway to Heaven Halloween Episodes

There are so many great Halloween episodes out there and plenty of lists. For me personally, several come to mind.

Roseanne, Home Improvement, The Office, My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Modern Family, American Horror Story, Beavis and Butthead, The Middle, Newhart.

But one show that doesn't seem to be as popular on the Halloween lists is Highway to Heaven. Surprisingly, there are a couple great Halloween episodes that I highly recomend.

The Devil and Jonathan Smith - Season 2 - Episode 5

I was a Middle Aged Werewolf - Season 4 - Episode 5

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Air Force Services Bowling Directory

https://myairforcelife.com/bowling-directory/

Iolite

Iolite is known as the “Viking’s Compass” and symbolizes vision, intuition, and journeying together.

Pleochroic. When you turn iolite, you'll see three distinct colors in three crystal directions.

Strongly pleochroic iolite has been incorrectly called “water sapphire,” as it can display a blue to violet hue in one direction and pale yellow to colorless in another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordierite

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Monday, October 13, 2025

Halloween Advent Calendar 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Census OnTheMap

Ben Muldrow's Empty Building Economic Impact Calculator and Retail Business Calculator

Monday, October 6, 2025

Minnesota Candy Store

44.654530458999275, -93.6830485234003

https://minnesotaslargestcandystore.com/

https://who13.com/news/iowa-news/minnesotas-largest-candy-store-draws-people-north-from-iowa/

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Oskaloosa Election November 2025

http://oskynews.org/oskaloosa-prepares-for-november-city-and-school-elections/

School Board:

The two-year term will be decided between Katie Johnston and Crystal Jimenez-Boender.

The three four-year terms include James Feudner, Aaron Hinnah, Tyler Wilson, Tasha Janssen, Kathy Butler, and Scott Van Veldhuizen

City Council:

Three candidates are seeking the two at-large council positions: Andy Holmberg, Javin Sword, and Nicholas Ryan.

Mayor David Krutzfeldt, Janet Hermsen, and Ronda Almond are running unopposed.

School Board Candidates Forum: September 30, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Pella Fibre recorded and presented video of the forum

City Council Candidates Forum: October 7, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Candidate pages I can find:

https://www.facebook.com/people/Katie-Johnston-for-Oskaloosa-School-Board/61581020129502/

https://www.facebook.com/people/Crystal-Jimenez-Boender-for-OCSD-Board-of-Education/61581079187970/

https://www.facebook.com/people/James-Feudner-for-OCSD-School-Board/61580191636512/

https://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Wilson-for-OCSD-School-Board/61578271948566/

https://www.facebook.com/JanssenForSchoolBoard

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056323989751222/

https://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Holmberg-for-Oskaloosa-City-Council/61577871973037/

https://javinsword.com/

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

AI made me chuckle

Asked AI: could one use marplot and cameo data manager to map and manage their cemetery?

Response: Technically, yes—you could use MARPLOT and CAMEO Data Manager to map and manage a cemetery, but it’s a bit like using a firetruck to water your garden 🌱🚒.

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Friday, July 18, 2025

Oskaloosa Special Election August 5

Osky News Article

Mahaska County Elections Page

Residents will have an opportunity to get to know the candidates during a community meet-and-greet.

Tuesday, July 22, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Bridget’s Public House, 208 1st Avenue East.

Promoted as “Speed Dating for a Councilman,” the event will feature a rotating-table format, giving voters the chance to engage in short, personal conversations with each candidate. Additional time will be set aside at the end of the evening for one-on-one follow-ups.

Andy Holmberg

Nick Ryan

Manny Garcia

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Casey's Article and Maps

Here is a nice article about Casey's with some nice maps:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/retail/2025/07/15/how-common-caseys-kwik-star-kum-and-go-are-in-iowa/84538330007/

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Summerween Color Palettes

Candy Corn

Monday, June 2, 2025

FEMA Flood Pages

https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/national-flood-hazard-layer

https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home

https://hazards-fema.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=8b0adb51996444d4879338b5529aa9cd

Scenic City Wood Carvings

Scenic City Wood Carvings - Iowa Falls, IA

Iowa Falls Chamber

PDF Map

Story Map

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Fun Discovery for the Day

I never realized that there was a cat in the Peanuts comic. His name is World War II.

"World War II, also known as "The Cat Next Door", is an unseen cat character in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. The Cat Next Door is first mentioned in the strip from November 23, 1958 but is not given the name World War II until October 20, 1976.

He is an extremely vicious cat who terrorizes Snoopy and Woodstock. Whenever his rival, Snoopy, mocks him from across the yard, the cat slashes Snoopy's doghouse, or sometimes, Snoopy himself… Charlie Brown usually ends up having to buy another doghouse as a result."

https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/World_War_II_(cat_next_door)

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2025/04/15