Duane Ausherman BMW motorcycles
What I can remember after decades of working with BMW motorcycles
I loved popcorn after my first bite. I don’t know how young that was. I would beg mom to make popcorn. She decided it was time for me to quit asking and make it myself. I was five years old. I was so short that I had to stand on a footstool to reach the …
I learned to shoot my father’s bolt action rifle when I was nine years old. For my thirteenth birthday, I got a Sears single shot 22 rifle. It had been $14.95 and was on sale for $9.95. My grandfather loaned me his 410 shotgun. It, too, was a single shot. In the winter, I would …
At age 7 in the spring, I learned to ride my bike to the Wichita city golf course and caddy. That summer, I turned 8. Years later, my mother insisted that I started at eight and turned nine that summer. She may have been correct. The requirement was to pay a caddy $.75 for nine …
I remember walking to Ingalls, our elementary school. It was two blocks from our house. For lunch, we walked home to a meal my mother had prepared. There were no free lunches for poor people. I walked back quickly to be on time for our class. We had to buy our books. The school purchased …
Kansas integrated the school system when I was in the 5th grade. Most of the black students continued going to the same school as before. Only a few transferred to Ingalls, the formerly white school. One of those was Edgar Lee Blackman. Edgar wasn’t in my class; I only knew what I had heard. He …
I compiled a list of parts sources for your bike. It is now 2023, and many are out of business. If you know about a trusted source or dealer that is not listed here, please let me know. USA Sources Toastertan Custom Airhead Parts Website: www.toastertan.com ———————————————————— Re-Psycle at 240 West Columbus Street, P.O. box …
Today, Thursday, was very good. I slept very well and didn’t have to hassle with the black infusion bag. I went to my Kaiser appointment to get the Pic line removed. I was a bit early, and they took me quickly. The pic line got pulled out in one second with no feeling of any …
I watched the Sunday morning TV show from 7-8:30 am. 8:30 am, I started making split pea soup 9 am, I noticed blood in my urine Google told me I must see a doc I had five bowel movements in 10 minutes I vomited once. I was running a high fever and was shaking uncontrollably. …
“A Münster of Our Own Making: Religiosity in Portland” Joseph Bottum, Ph.D., is director of the Classics Institute at Dakota State University. His most recent book is “The Decline of the Novel.” A violent gang of radical Anabaptists—now that’s a phrase one doesn’t get to use often, but there it is: In 1534, a violent …
Lovely Jackie Villasenor I met Jackie a few years ago while she was working as a MAC artist in the Sears store at Somersville Towne Center. By age 18 she had earned her black belt in Taekwondo. When a person is highly successful in any challenge at such a young age, that person will be …