Hot and more of it.

June 17, 2006, 6:00 A.M.
59º F, Cloudy, S wind 5 mph.

Good morning,

Welcome to Mad-Town! This bovine welcomed us as we left the parking ramp when we started our walk to the museum. There were many along State Street and Margriet had a ball taking pictures of almost all of them. I guess they were interesting. Different for sure.

Margriet had a good time walking State street, even though it was under construction for some of it. This is about as close as I have seen in this country to a "European" style shopping street. Only bicycles and buses are allowed on the street proper (and a bunch of construction equipment at the moment) so pedestrians can walk anywhere, dodging the buses! There are many different shops and restaurants along the street. Some of the restaurants specialize in ethnic foods I have never seen in restaurants before. The other shops have just as much variety of merchandise. A real mix of everything imaginable. Kind of cool. We decided there was not much there for us to buy as it seems to be aimed at people with a significantly different lifestyle or tastes than ours. We didn’t walk the entire street that is blocked off as we both were feeling our ankles really were about at our knees. We headed back to the parking ramp and headed for something to eat.

Yesterday was very much a down time day. Margriet did a load of laundry, but I did little for most of the day. We did stagger uptown to the post office and a couple other errands. Both of us were hurting physically. This morning the aches and pains seem to have lessened a bit to a more tolerable level. The heat and humidity are a huge factor in our pains I think. While it was 15-20º F cooler here than Green Bay all day, and still is, it was still hot! Hotter today is the prediction. The humidity at the moment is reasonable, but that will not continue and there are predictions of thunderstorms this evening/night. Not really looking forward to the humidity or the heat.

The farmers in the area are sure making hay while the sun shines and afterwards. The farmer who plants the closest field to us was making hay all day and into the night yesterday. As a result, there was a lot of traffic on Winding Road, almost all tractor though. The farmers sure can use some rain. Hope it comes tonight, but not in a deluge. Slow rain would be good. The corn fields, for the most part, are not in good shape. Don’t think most will have it knee high by the fourth of July this year. When we were in Chetek, the corn there at the time was better than most of the corn here now! They were complaining of being too dry. We still have some being planted yet, thanx to the wet spring.

Plans today are to get some things done around here. Not much too physical I think. There is a lot needed to be done. The lawn is a prime job, but I am sure it will be done in small doses. I need to get the outhouse some organized too. Seems it has become a "dumping" place for to many things. Maybe the van will get some attention too.

We also have some things to wrap and get into the mail. We have a present for my brother’s wife, Mary, intending to give it to here when we went to Chetek. Instead, it remained here when both of us forgot it. We remembered it, actually Margriet remembered, when we were about 50 miles west of Green Bay! Didn’t go back as we figured the postal service needed some work! Hopefully it will go out Monday sometime.

Time to get the day a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,


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