Tiffy's Birthday with Goats and Half a Grasshopper

 

Today I left somewhat early to meet Tiffy and our college friend at a creamery on the east side of Lake Winnebago. We were meeting at 11, so I left some extra time for bathroom breaks along the way and got there at 11:02. At the creamery there were baby goats we got to pet, as well as baby chicks we could watch but couldn't touch. We had lunch there, and I had a sandwich with goat cheese, natch.

We went to our college friend's house to pick up her dog Pluto, then we all went for a hike at Ledgeview Natural Area. Shoot, for some reason Blogspot is not letting me post photos right now (although it let me post a random video that I then deleted), so I can't show you the beautiful ledge or the selfie of us in front of it. Hopefully this is a temporary issue... Pluto the Dog took us at a quicker pace than we had planned, so we got quite a workout. There are caves at the park too, but you can't go in without a guide present. 

Next we went to the Sheboygan Marsh and took a drive around it, but we were too tired to get out and hike more. We went to Elkhart Lake, hoping to go to the tiki bar there, but everything is closed this week because it's a resort area, and everyone there needs a break after the busy summer. So we took Pluto home and went to Schwartz's Supper Club, where I had the smallest Surf & Turf option available but still took half of it home, and then Tiffy and I split a grasshopper, because what's a dinner at a supper club without an ice cream drink afterwards? Or at least half of one? Since we arrived so early, we got in right away, and that way we could head home in a timely manner.

My drive home was very pleasant. I could see Lake Winnebago spread out before me, under the last glow of the sunset. As I drove home, Venus was before me in the sky. When I was near home, I could smell the tantalizing aroma of the bakery on Highway 151. Everything went so smoothly today, until I couldn't post photos. Hopefully this issue will be cleared up by tomorrow.

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Getting a Filling and Putting Up Posters

Today I worked from home, then I left work a bit early to go to the dentist to have a cavity filled. That was not a lot of fun, especially since I need more anesthesia than the average person, so they kept having to pump more Novocaine into me when I kept saying, "I can feel it!" My mouth is still sore. Then I went to Adoration, and then Travalon and I ran around to the three Kwik Trips and the co-op up here on the north side of town, hanging posters to advertise the Shamrock Club's upcoming ceili next month. Will anyone even notice them? That's another question.

Here are screenshots from a local train that went by while we were up North that had lots of fun graffiti: 

And this, from another train that had no other interesting graffiti:

The train in our neighborhood went north just after I left for Adoration, so I missed it, but the guy who always makes a video of it got it.

Is this the same as the one from the train with only one good piece of graffiti? I think maybe it is.

Just now, as I was blogging, our neighborhood train came back south. Our line just runs up to Reedsburg, but Wisconsin and Southern has plenty of other lines. That little Tomahawk railroad just has one line. I just keep thinking about how cute that engine is, and I wonder what it was going to pull, because the cars in the rail yard there were way bigger than it was. They were for Fox Valley & Lake Superior Railroad. I'd love to see the little Tomahawk engine pulling some teeny cars - how cute would that be?

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Firefly Lake and Trains in Tomahawk

 

This morning we went back to Dixie's Coffee again, and I love their pillows.

They also have a statue of Dixie in the doorway.

We went down to the beach again. Here's a photo Travalon took with his cellphone.

Then we packed up and took a hike around Firefly Lake, which is small and very beautiful.

As is our tradition, we stopped for lunch at the Thirsty Whale in Minocqua. We didn't see a loon from the deck this year, but we did see a pair of bald eagles.

Next we went to Sara Park in Tomahawk, on the Wisconsin River.

We saw a tiny engine for the Tomahawk Railway go by.

Isn't it cute? Travalon remembered seeing train cars near Sara Park, and we found that there were many of them, and they had beautiful graffiti.

The rest of our trip home was fairly uneventful. There was a bit of a traffic slowdown on I90, but it didn't last too long. When we got home, my print had arrived of that painting of a train with graffiti spelling out the lyrics to "King of the Road." I don't think it would work to take a photo, since panning out to get the whole thing would make it too small, but trust me, it's very cool. Then I had a condo board meeting, while Travalon went out on the dock and took photos of the sunset.

We both are back to work tomorrow, and I also have to go to the dentist and get a cavity filled, so tomorrow will not be fun like the last three days. That's okay, if there's nothing to blog about, I can post more screenshots of train graffiti, or more photos from our trip.

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