Sorry for the long silence. I hope my readers had a good
Thanksgiving – mine was very relaxing! Wednesday evening Travalon and I started
off our four-day weekend by going to Octopi for their Trivia Night. Our team (“Famous
Hats”) came in fourth out of eleven, and that was just the two of us versus
teams with about six people. We want to try it again sometime!
Thanksgiving Day Travalon and I spent a few hours with his
mother, then we went for a hike on Tivoli Island in Watertown, and then we went
to Rich’s crazy dinner. There were about twenty people there, including most of the Rosary Ladies, two
little kids and a whole enclave of vegetarians at one end of the table. A
political discussion did break out among the vegetarians, but I was able to
avoid it from where I was sitting just at the edge of their section, and some
random singing broke out too, but that I don’t mind as much. I spent much of my
time talking to a delightful woman from Nicaragua. As always, I provided the
turkey and other people brought all sorts of things, including at least three
types of sweet potatoes and half a dozen pies.
Friday Travalon and I took the day off of work, slept in,
and made chocolate croissants for breakfast. We drove to Reedsburg to visit the
Corner Pub and took a long hike in Mirror Lake State Park. Anna Banana II was
in town briefly from North Dakota, so we met her, Jilly Moose, and OK Cap for
dinner at Himal Chuli. Some of them went on to Rich’s house for leftover dessert,
but by then Travalon was really not feeling too well, so we just went home and
had a quiet evening.
Saturday Travalon was really under the weather, so we did
not travel to Ma and Pa Hat’s house. I met the Rosary Ladies and Rich for
brunch at Crema Café, then we went to the craft market and the pottery place in
the same strip mall. I had been hoping to get Kathbert to come up to Cherokee
Marsh because I knew she would remember how to get to the boardwalk, and indeed
she did! We went for a long hike in the marsh, running into a bandmate of mine,
then we went to Rich’s for leftovers. Thanksgiving Part Two!
Yesterday we went to brunch at Sofra in Middleton, then
Travalon was feeling well enough to go on a gentle hike in Cherokee Marsh, so I
was able to show him the boardwalk. We also went to a memorial concert for Doc
DeHaven, a local jazz trumpeter and high school music teacher who had died this
summer at the age of 85, and that was great. Different groups played all sorts
of jazz, and it was all the kinds I like. (True confession: I am not an Ornette
Coleman fan.) So it was a wonderfully relaxing weekend, and Travalon was recovered
enough to go to work today.
Famous Hat
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