I hope my readers enjoyed the hot weather this weekend,
maybe our last taste of summer. Sorry that I have no update for you on the
missing sculpture. Hopefully the officials are really looking into this and
weren’t just blowing me off.
Friday evening I went down to the Union Terrace after work
and listened to live salsa music while watching sailboats, until Travalon and a
Slow Food person joined me for a Q&A with a writer from the Colbert show. He
went to graduate school here and actually got into improv with a local troupe,
so it was interesting to hear that Madison produces some comics of note. After
all, we can boast Chris Farley.
Saturday Travalon had caught my cold, so we had a quiet day
and then decided to head to Fort Atkinson, where Bahama Bob and Banana Wind
were performing at a bar on an island. Sounds like a perfect venue for tropical
music, right? They had posted on social media that the gig was called off
because flooding had made the island inaccessible, but then Friday they had
reposted the gig, so we assumed it was back on. We should have called first,
because we got out there only to find that the road was indeed under water.
Travalon figured we could salvage the trip by going to a new brewery in town…
but it had already gone out of business. We did have a wonderful dinner at an
Irish pub, then we were going to walk on the River Walk, but it too was under
water because of the floods, so we headed back to town and checked out a
Mexican Fest. We thought about going to the Willy Street Fair but were too
tired and just headed home.
Sunday we didn’t feel well enough to come all the way
downtown for Mass, so we went to the local church, where the parishioners are
not very friendly. They won’t shake your hand during the sign of peace, and
they don’t talk to you afterwards. (OK Cap says this has been her experience
there as well.) We took the boat out for a short ride, and the heat on the
water seemed to bake our colds right out of us. Then we went to the Willy
Street Fair, but it didn’t seem as crazy as some years. Good food, though.
Jilly Moose came over, and the three of us went on a hike by the Yahara River,
then we met the other Rosary Ladies at Drumlin Ridge Winery for Jilly Moose’s
birthday, which is actually on Tuesday. I got her a wine tasting with a commemorative
wineglass, as well as a wine slushie for myself. Was that ever delicious! And
it went straight to my head. Each of us bought a different snack plate, so we
had cheese and hummus and chocolate-covered pretzels, and Luxuli got Jilly
Moose a slice of cheesecake with wine sauce that we each got to sample. Afterwards Travalon and I watched
the Packer game that we had taped, since it was too beautiful to sit inside and
watch it live, and it just went on forever. They kept almost beating the
Vikings, but the Vikings tied things up, they went into overtime… and then
nobody scored, so after all that it was a tie. At least they didn’t lose…
Famous Hat
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