Fred Lone's A's hardware and garden stores brings you garage logic podcast number 367 April 20 2020 83 degrees was a high that occurred on this day in 1980.

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They had eight and a half inches of snow on this day. Very slim ice outs today. Nothing white bear Lake white bear Lake 1957.

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We're getting to the conclusion. No, I'm thinking I mean we all have curves imprinted on our minds, you know, and I think we're on the downward side of the curve. Got it. That's where I was trying to say that brought to buy a side.

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And now from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake. It's garage logic with rookie on production Chris Reaver's director of social media.

John Hyde in the newsroom and occasionally Kenny from the crabby coffee shop here is your flashlight king fireworks commissioner and keeper of common sense your mayor Joe Sushire.

Many G Lers wanted to alert me to a piece that appeared in today's pioneer press after a three year fight. A guy who lives on Portland Avenue in St. Paul can finally finish his driveway.

Hell, I know the guy I did a column on him two years ago almost to the day. He's a guy name. He's a guy named Ray Meyer and the heritage preservation commission that watches closely over the buildings in the cathedral hill neighborhood.

For example, denied him permission to finish a stamped mosaic driveway, a beautiful driveway that was already done in the back of his house.

But I guess when Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda walk by they couldn't see that so that was okay with the story preservation commission. And then he and then in the front was just cracked old run of the mill concrete and all he wanted to do was remove that run of the mill concrete at an expense of 60 grand to him by the way.

And finish and finish the driveway which had a red tint and people were upset that the red they didn't like the red and they didn't think it was well by their thinking you couldn't replace a sidewalk in that neighborhood that had been uprooted by tree roots.

I mean that's what it came down to so their reasoning was just the aesthetics of the aesthetic of it. They didn't think it was original. Well, you know what the guy Ray and I figured out shooting the bowl one day I went over there.

You know what the original probably was dirt. Yeah, it was probably groomed dirt or groomed gravel. And these precious this guy by the way has won awards for the restoration of his house that was built in about 1890 in other words he intended nothing aesthetically displeasing at all nothing the guys you know 81 years old he just has a sense of his own history of the place.

And the even the even the concrete driveway that he wanted to fix was not original construction. No, that's where we arrived at the idea that it could very well have been in the first few years back then dirt or sand or oil sand or gravel or whatever in any of any finally one now. Well thank goodness.

He finally won I don't know what that cost him he got a six old vote from the same Paul city council.

Good to well why did it take three years for God's six. I have a question. Yeah, are you sure about the 60 grand to remove concrete. What is it five miles long.

He was halfway through the 60 thousand dollar project when the preservation commission halted work on the final 90 feet to the sidewalk. Okay, okay.

The panel voted 11 to nothing to block the project in November 2017 and had Meyer taken out of their meeting room for arguing. Yeah, what's he going to throw carpets, you're going to throw carpet samples into the guys at the time he was 79 years old.

He wasn't going to cause any disruption. In fact, he had previously served on that same commission really. Yeah, yeah, but so we don't I don't know what was at stake there or what what the behind the scenes complaint was but thank God he finally can do it now.

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