An Uneventful Week - 6/15

Uneventful is pretty much what I was shooting for. We visited our bucket of wine to see how it was going. Terry looks much like a proud father at the window of a hospital nursery. Come to think of it the situations are pretty similar. They both involve new arrivals generating a lot of waste while all you can do is hope things work out OK.

We visited our first Wisconsin cheese factory. I briefly considered a cheese cowboy hat but thought better of it.

We went to the first of what will be many free concerts. The rock bands (like this one) always end up disappointed with the audience. Most people attending are either old geezers like us looking for free entertainment or couples passing the time while their kids work off energy in the nearby playground. Ultimately the young families leave early at their kid's bedtime and the geezers start to nod off - neither is a response the band was looking for.

Java Dock has become my coffee shop of choice. Some folks will realize how important this is. The upstairs room is usually not this empty. It was about 6:45pm and at 7 on Monday nights it's reserved for chess and Scrabble tournaments. My days playing games requiring that much thought are long gone so we left. If they ever have a Yahtzee night, I might consider it.

A three-masted schooner tied up in the harbor. Actually I have no idea what the true definition of a schooner is so it could be a sloop or a frigate. It could be a jet ski for all I know. I don't know who they were or what they were doing but I overheard they were just going to change crews and head back out.




A new city park opened about two blocks from us so I went to check it out. It's called Harborview Park. While you can see the harbor in the distance you have a much better view of a funeral home/crematorium and its associated parking lot. I noticed a 15' yellow circle in the driveway entrance. I didn't grasp it right away since it was upside down from my vantage point, but it was a giant, winking smiley face. I cropped and rotated it so you can see it better. I'm not sure what I would expect to greet me if I were pulling in for a funeral, but a smiley face would be pretty far down the list. The yellow face may be a custom somehow be related to Wisconsin cheddar cheese, but that's pure speculation on my part.

I'm not sure how often I'll be doing updates. You've pretty much seen what my life will be like for the next 2 1/2 months. Festival names and towns will change. Band names and venues will change. Other than that things will be about the same. I'll post some periodic updates, but I doubt they will be more than weekly at best.