I hope my readers had an enjoyable weekend. Saturday morning
Jilly Moose and I drove to Watertown in Chartreuse Bruce to attend a coffee
class at Beres Brothers Brewing. We learned how coffee is roasted, and the
different ways you can brew it, and we tried samples of the different brewing
methods. I preferred most of them to the old-skool drip method, but they are
all more expensive and labor-intensive. Chartreuse Bruce gets satellite radio,
so on the way there and back we were listening to R&B and hip hop – it was
fantastic! We had healthy salads at the Nau-Ti-Gal, since we are doing that
health app and have to enter everything we eat into the app. Travalon,
meanwhile, was at a heartbreaking Badgers basketball game; they lost by three
points. In the evening he and I joined some Slow Food people to tour Bos
Meadery and try some mead, and then we walked not even a block to Julep, a new
Southern food restaurant. Travalon and I split the shrimp and grits and a slice
of sweet potato pie, so after we got home, he put on a Steely Dan DVD and I ran
for two hours to work off that dinner, according to the health app. I may not
be eating any healthier, but I sure am getting more exercise since starting
this app!
Yesterday was so much fun. Travalon and I drove to
Oconomowoc for his mother’s 90th birthday party (her actual birthday
is today); he hired the live music, a guy who plays the steel drum, and one of
his brothers brought cupcakes for everyone. The whole family was there, as well
as many residents of the place where my mother-in-law lives. The steel drum
player was a huge hit, because his music is not so loud that people can’t carry
on conversations, but if you want to be up close and listen, it’s such great,
cheerful music. It made us feel like we were in the tropics, even on such a
cold day. The day continued to get better when the Vikings lost their playoff
game. The Packers started out the way they have lately, with no offense
whatsoever, and I was afraid they would do that thing they do when they come to
life in the fourth quarter and almost make a comeback. However, they came to life
in the second quarter, in plenty of time to handily defeat the Redskins. In the
evening, the Rosary Ladies (and associated husbands) had a birthday party for
OK Cap at the Nitty Gritty. We even had party hats and Mardi Gras beads, thanks
to Luxuli and Prairie Man. They have the cutest little sundaes there, and they
aren’t very many calories due to their tiny size, so most of us indulged. That
evening I only needed to go my required 10,000 steps to burn off what I’d
eaten, not almost 15,000 like the previous two days. Is that improvement?
Famous Hat
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