This morning Travalon and I had arranged with our neighbor to bring our boat in for the season at 10:30, but it was raining. We rescheduled for noon, but there was suddenly rain in the forecast at that hour too. However, around 12:30 it was clear, so we took a chance and brought the boat in with no issues at all. At 1:30 it started raining again, so our timing was good. We drove through the rain to Cross Plains and took a walk on the Ice Age Trail in town, which is all sidewalks and boardwalks, since it was too wet to hike out in the woods. Afterwards we had coffee at Crossroads Coffee House to reward ourselves, although Travalon actually had the "Apple Crisp Mathca."
In the evening I met Kathbert at our old church. Check out the fixed-up steeple!
It must almost be ready to get put on the tower. I took Kathbert out to dinner for her birthday, and we wanted to go to the Globe, but it was packed, so we went to Himal Chuli. Then we walked to the Hamel Music Center for a talk on Atomic something or other, which was actually two short talks, one on the patterns of atoms in crystals, and another about computing that I slept through, and then the main talk was on scales in klezmer music. We ran into the Former Professor Formerly Known as Lute Player (she's now Emerita) and her husband, so we sat with them, and right in front of us sat (I swear it was the same kid) the Hell Child from the health club. He kept bumping into me as we made our way to our seats, and then he wiggled and talked through the whole event, and of course his mother did nothing. Two musicians, a woman from South Africa who had a very creative way of playing the piano, and a New York City Jewish guy who played the clarinet, played some modern klezmer for us, and then something that really hurt our ears, and finally their last piece was a traditional klezmer tune. I did enjoy that. Afterwards we ran into the Daughter of Denni and her mom, who had been sitting a couple of rows behind us, so we talked a bit, and then Kathbert walked me back to my car (a harrowing walk full of homeless people asking for money and crazy college students wearing skimpy Halloween costumes), and then I drove her home. Here is a photo of a book talking about klezmer scales, from a display outside of the auditorium.
Tomorrow Travalon and I just have to walk a little over four miles altogether, so that's a fraction over two miles for each of us. Then we will have done the whole Mammoth Challenge. Since we got lots of bonus miles, even for something we hadn't realized we'd get them for (hiking at a state park), we are technically done with the challenge, but we always like to get all the actual miles from hiking. We needed forty-five this year.
Famous Hat
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