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What Is Your Partner Cheap About And It Drives You Crazy? – #TQOTD One of my favorite debates with Connie and Steve is about toilet paper. I can actually see her rolling her eyes at me as I shared Alicia’s (my wife) obsession with saving money on toilet paper. It sometimes makes me wonder if she grew up using newspapers to wipe. The poke thru ratio on cheap toilet paper is terrible … GOOD LORD!!! Anyway here is your TQOTD: TEXT QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is your partner cheap about and it drives you crazy? My husband won’t change our coffee filters daily. He waits for about 4/5 da...

Scientists read centuries of history in tree rings     PLATTEVILLE, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal ) — Some people use clocks and calendars to track time. Evan Larson and Christopher Underwood use trees. Across a valley, they can recognize the contorted, reaching branches that distinguish an old oak from the more plentiful variety that sprung up around 1850 as European settlers moved into southwestern Wisconsin. A pencil-sized rod pulled from a tree trunk is like a weather almanac. Larson and Underwood, both geographers at UW-Platteville, divine the history of the land from tree ri...

UW-Platteville geographers sampled oaks across the Driftless region, including some that have been growing since the 1700s. They sampled rafters from historic homes and barns built from locally harvested timber