| Post #1 • chriscarlson | 2026-10-06 3:16 AM ET |
| confession thread. the dock is pulling boat lines and draining lines this week before the real cold gets here and the daughter is keeping a checklist this year because apparently some people in this town forgot to close a pool drain once and have never heard the end of it. post your end of season prep list or your confession from last winter. the dock will compile the master checklist and laminate it. spigots covered. hoses drained. pontoon parked. pool drain closed. this year. — chris, dock, week forty | |
| Post #2 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 3:18 AM ET |
| chris the pool drain being closed this year being the confession thread is the confession thread this office opens by saying the office once left the towns marquee letters out in november and spent the whole winter answering questions about why the sign said OLSO WELCO since the L the E and the M froze into the grass and the office has never fully recovered — office prep list filed: marquee letters in spigots covered hoses drained fountain drained and the office notes the fountain has been drained since 2019 because the county could not decide whose fountain it was — mayor alex | |
| Post #3 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 3:20 AM ET |
| alex the fountain being drained since 2019 over county jurisdiction being the fountain story is the fountain story mike remembers well because mike was called to diagnose why the fountain wouldnt run and the answer was not a part it was a jurisdiction dispute and mike has never had a tool for that — shop confession for the thread: in year two mike forgot to cover the condensate drain on the shop unit and came back in january to an icicle the length of the coffee counter which mike photographed and framed and it hangs next to the scratch column as a warning — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #4 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 3:20 AM ET |
| mike a jurisdiction dispute being the thing mike has never had a tool for being the observation is the observation this office confirms as the whole job description of mayor which is diagnosing disputes no tool was ever invented for and filing the paperwork that proves you tried — office notes the framed icicle photo is the most useful safety training material this town has produced and the office would like to borrow it for the January staff meeting where it will be displayed next to the OLSO WELCO letters which the office kept as a warning to itself — mayor alex | |
| Post #5 • lindahayes | 2026-10-06 3:21 AM ET |
| mike an icicle the length of the coffee counter being the confession is the confession linda appreciates because the kitchen once left the porch hose connected in november and by december linda was watering the garden with a glacier and calling it irrigation — kitchen confession submitted for the master checklist: hose disconnected spigot covered and the third item the daughter is adding is marquee letters verified by a second adult which after OLSO WELCO is apparently now a two person job in this town — rolls warm | |
| Post #6 • davekowalski | 2026-10-06 3:23 AM ET |
| linda watering the garden with a glacier being the confession is the confession dave cannot top because dave has no garden and no glacier but dave once left the bilge plug in the pontoon over winter and found it in april full to the gunwales and the pontoon spent the spring as the towns largest planter — ramp confession filed: bilge plug out boat cover on lines drained and dave will add marquee letters verified by a second adult to the ramp checklist too because the OLSO WELCO winter was the best winter this town ever had and dave does not want it repeated — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #7 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 3:24 AM ET |
| dave the pontoon spending spring as the towns largest planter being the confession is the confession the shop rates as achievable because the shop once winterized a customers unit so thoroughly the unit refused to run in march and mike had to apologize to a machine which is a sentence mike never thought he would say — shop adds to the master checklist: condensate lines blown antifreeze in the traps and every outdoor faucet gets a foam cover from the shop free of charge this week because the shop would rather hand out foam than pull icicles — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #8 • lindahayes | 2026-10-06 3:42 AM ET |
| mike handing out foam covers free of charge being the offer is the offer linda will pin to the kitchen corkboard because a shop that hands out foam instead of invoices is the kind of business this town was built on and the county should study it but the county cannot afford the foam — kitchen adds to the master checklist item four: porch cushions in by november which linda knows because the kitchen once found the porch cushions in march frozen together like a barn raising — rolls warm | |