Dave and Nancy came down to visit us for the last two days- we did a little sightseeing, ate a lot of good food, and talked a ton- it was great to see them. We visited the Pabst Mansion (http://www.pabstmansion.com/) and did the Sprecher Brewery tour (Read more... )

We had a huge storm last night, like 8+ inches of rain in two hours kind of huge. A ginormous sinkhole opened up on the North/Oakland intersection, swallowed a car- fortunately the driver was rescued. Many Milwaukee homeowners are dealing with sewer backup into their basements (yuck)- portions of Milwaukee has a combined sanitary/storm sewer system ( Read more... )