Beautiful weather
06/12/06, 12:05 pm.
54º F, Partly sunny, NNE wind 6 mph.
Good afternoon,
A couple of really nice days. The temperatures have been very comfortable during the days, but I did turn on the furnace, reluctantly, yesterday morning so we could get ready for church in the warm. Otherwise the weather has been perfect. Wish it would stay this way until September 1st when to daily snow fall should begin. Would be nice. I keep saying that, but the weather doesn’t hear me apparently. Supposed to get hot, into the 80's, again toward the weekend. Have to get out the sweat-dehydrant again!
The road between Muskrat City and the main highway has a new surface now. Friday, the crews added some real blacktop to the portion which was torn up by the pipeline construction, the put a coating of tar over the whole works to Muskrat City then covered it with pea-gravel. The runners and cyclists will not be happy about the pea-gravel during the Trout Fest later this summer. But it seems to be the road surface of choice in these parts for secondary roads. The "rough road" sign is still up, but it is a whole bunch better than in the past. Good to see that portion of the project is finished and it will not be too long before the suburbs of Green Bay will be getting Lake Michigan water to drink.
I think my little brother will again be heading south today or tomorrow. I have my calendar marked both ways and not sure which is right. I suspect they will know! Meeting them in Chetek this year was really a good idea I think. We had more of a chance to swap lies than just over a meal in a restaurant somewhere. Most of our time was spent at Kaye’s and I think the thee gals really had a good time (they are better at swapping lies!) Maybe next year we can do something similar. We also had a chance to catch up on things in Chetek through Kaye and really had a good time spending more or less a whole day with her. Not sure if we will have a chance to stop to see her this fall when we head to the Holy Spirt Conference. Time will tell.
Being the nice guy that I am, I made breakfast this morning, bacon and eggs. When I fry eggs, I usually fry the bacon almost done, the make a couple of circles with it and crack the eggs in the middle. The bacon normally finishes cooking while the eggs fry. This morning, as they were close to finishing, I turned off the gas, since the cast-iron frypan holds the heat. Well this time instead of turning off the gas, I turned the valve to wide open. A minute later I was trying to figure out what the clicking noise was, when it dawned on me what I had done. The clicking noise was the igniter which only operates when the valve is open to it’s fullest. Once I finally did turn off the gas, I discovered the contents of the pan had some very hard eggs and some bacon with carbon formed in it’s place. I hear carbon is good for an upset stomach, so we are ready for the next upset!
We really spent a lazy day yesterday. After church we went to Sloven Country Inn for lunch. They were much more busy than we expected, so ended up heading to Kewaunee and Grandma’s. Out of our normal character, we had a walleye fish basket with potato pancakes. We normally don’t buy anything that expensive as it usually is too much for us to eat. At $6.00/basket, I guess is really not too high a price, and the portion was just about right for us. Food was good too.
Afterwards we went home. There was a Formula 1 race on from England and it overlapped the scheduled NASCAR race. Before the F1 race was finished, my eyeballs decided to they needed to close, so took a nap. When I woke up, watched the NASCAR race. I had no idea who won the F1 until this morning when I opened the news from the BBC! The NASCAR race was a good one taking all of the afternoon. Almost missed the news! After the race, there really wasn’t all that much on TV of interest, at least not for us.
One of our tomato plants has blossoms! Don’t think I will have tomatoes on the 4th of July! Been working on a fence to keep the critters out of the garden. I have been using the sawhorses of my Dad to build it on. They are a bit too low to be comfortable working at and I have a real kink in my lower back. Wish they were about 6"-8" taller. In the process of building I am using a lot of staples and ran out. Went to the lumber yard to get more and did, except they were not the right staples. Size was OK, but the width of them was too narrow. Will need to pick up some in Green Bay tomorrow. For some reason I had a hard time finding them the last time I needed some. It is an old stapler, but uses heavy gauge staples so I like it.
Time to get a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
54º F, Partly sunny, NNE wind 6 mph.
Good afternoon,
A couple of really nice days. The temperatures have been very comfortable during the days, but I did turn on the furnace, reluctantly, yesterday morning so we could get ready for church in the warm. Otherwise the weather has been perfect. Wish it would stay this way until September 1st when to daily snow fall should begin. Would be nice. I keep saying that, but the weather doesn’t hear me apparently. Supposed to get hot, into the 80's, again toward the weekend. Have to get out the sweat-dehydrant again!
The road between Muskrat City and the main highway has a new surface now. Friday, the crews added some real blacktop to the portion which was torn up by the pipeline construction, the put a coating of tar over the whole works to Muskrat City then covered it with pea-gravel. The runners and cyclists will not be happy about the pea-gravel during the Trout Fest later this summer. But it seems to be the road surface of choice in these parts for secondary roads. The "rough road" sign is still up, but it is a whole bunch better than in the past. Good to see that portion of the project is finished and it will not be too long before the suburbs of Green Bay will be getting Lake Michigan water to drink.
I think my little brother will again be heading south today or tomorrow. I have my calendar marked both ways and not sure which is right. I suspect they will know! Meeting them in Chetek this year was really a good idea I think. We had more of a chance to swap lies than just over a meal in a restaurant somewhere. Most of our time was spent at Kaye’s and I think the thee gals really had a good time (they are better at swapping lies!) Maybe next year we can do something similar. We also had a chance to catch up on things in Chetek through Kaye and really had a good time spending more or less a whole day with her. Not sure if we will have a chance to stop to see her this fall when we head to the Holy Spirt Conference. Time will tell.
Being the nice guy that I am, I made breakfast this morning, bacon and eggs. When I fry eggs, I usually fry the bacon almost done, the make a couple of circles with it and crack the eggs in the middle. The bacon normally finishes cooking while the eggs fry. This morning, as they were close to finishing, I turned off the gas, since the cast-iron frypan holds the heat. Well this time instead of turning off the gas, I turned the valve to wide open. A minute later I was trying to figure out what the clicking noise was, when it dawned on me what I had done. The clicking noise was the igniter which only operates when the valve is open to it’s fullest. Once I finally did turn off the gas, I discovered the contents of the pan had some very hard eggs and some bacon with carbon formed in it’s place. I hear carbon is good for an upset stomach, so we are ready for the next upset!
We really spent a lazy day yesterday. After church we went to Sloven Country Inn for lunch. They were much more busy than we expected, so ended up heading to Kewaunee and Grandma’s. Out of our normal character, we had a walleye fish basket with potato pancakes. We normally don’t buy anything that expensive as it usually is too much for us to eat. At $6.00/basket, I guess is really not too high a price, and the portion was just about right for us. Food was good too.
Afterwards we went home. There was a Formula 1 race on from England and it overlapped the scheduled NASCAR race. Before the F1 race was finished, my eyeballs decided to they needed to close, so took a nap. When I woke up, watched the NASCAR race. I had no idea who won the F1 until this morning when I opened the news from the BBC! The NASCAR race was a good one taking all of the afternoon. Almost missed the news! After the race, there really wasn’t all that much on TV of interest, at least not for us.
One of our tomato plants has blossoms! Don’t think I will have tomatoes on the 4th of July! Been working on a fence to keep the critters out of the garden. I have been using the sawhorses of my Dad to build it on. They are a bit too low to be comfortable working at and I have a real kink in my lower back. Wish they were about 6"-8" taller. In the process of building I am using a lot of staples and ran out. Went to the lumber yard to get more and did, except they were not the right staples. Size was OK, but the width of them was too narrow. Will need to pick up some in Green Bay tomorrow. For some reason I had a hard time finding them the last time I needed some. It is an old stapler, but uses heavy gauge staples so I like it.
Time to get a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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