Common Ground
A homeowner in Waukesha for 20 years, Steve is president of the Waukesha Dog Parks Organization and enjoys motorcycling, fishing and staying on top of politics.
ART
By Steve Bukosky
Sunday, Oct 29 2006, 08:49 PM
Art is my Grandfather. It can also be an acronym. Awfully Rough Thoroughfare, comes to mind. But I'm speaking of artistic art. My Grandfather Art thought that art was a well designed rifle or a piece of farm machinery that was not only repaired well but was clean and well painted. Art was also seeing the rows of corn growing in perfectly straight rows. Did you know that John Deere makes a tractor guided by GPS which assures the path is straight within four inches from end to end? That's would have been his paintbrush while the land was the easel.
But back to the acronym that you are likely puzzling over. You see, Grandview Avenue was recently reworked and repaved. Now gone is the plop keplop that I've been acoustomed to hear from my tires for the last 20 years. Smooth asphalt now makes the tires hum. That kerplop could have been a form of art. The road was the record and the tires were the Victrola. No, I'm not that old but I'll let the kids guess about that one. But it is not the new improved pavement on Grandview that prompted me to write this. To explain would take a thousand words. So, dig the Sunday paper out of wherever you have it and look at the front page of the Waukesha section W. On it you will see an ART.
