Rosary Ladies Weekend

This weekend the Rosary Ladies were finally all together again, because Anna Banana II is visiting from the vast expanse of North Dakota. So it was the whole gang: Anna Banana II, Jilly Moose, Luxuli, OK Cap, and me, Famous Hat. Friday night we went to a Mallards game (Mr. Luxuli and Travalon came too) – the Mallards won, but the score was only 2-0. It was a very quick game because of all the defensive playing. They were playing the Wisconsin Woodchucks, and Travalon was wearing a Woodchucks hat, but nobody even noticed to heckle him.

Saturday morning I met the ladies for coffee and a trip to the Farmers’ Market, then Jilly Moose, OK Cap, and I grabbed lunch at a Mexican restaurant and did an hour of adoration together. So we prayed the rosary together, even if it was silently, and after all, isn’t that a big part of what the Rosary Ladies are about? Besides having fun, of course! In the evening, the three of us went to a fake Irish pub and had half-priced cocktails. There was a very loud two-man country band there, so we moved to a back room where we could actually converse. You’d think they’d have an Irish band at a fake Irish pub, right?

Yesterday the ladies and I went hiking with our guys and Richard Bonomo at Devil’s Lake State Park. Travalon brought Rodney, who had such a good time that he smiled the whole way home. Really – poodles can smile! It’s very cute. It was a perfect day, exactly the right temperature with just a slight breeze, so there were a ton of people there. As Travalon and I waited for the others to arrive, we sat looking out at the lake and listening to someone play Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” on the guitar. Plenty of other dogs were there too, including one half the size of Rodney, who is pretty small himself. Travalon and I were kind of pokey because Rodney liked to stop and sniff everything, so we joked that we were on Central Dog Time. Of course, this meant that we didn’t get back in time for my band rehearsal… We did stop for dinner at a charming Mexican restaurant in Sauk City.

Famous Hat