Lack of blog material

First - Wis. Public Television, WHA Channel 21 in Madison viewing area, will air a segment on Badger Honor Flight's DC trip that took place April 2. Airs on Thurs., May 19, 7:30 PM. this is the one DJ's dad went on - a very very moving experience and one of the greatest days of his life.
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Well - catching some flak for not blogging! Actually I AM blogging - every day but it's all about the Brewers and most are not that interested in Brewer blogs! You see I told a friend that with my extra free time (which seems to be a retirement fallacy) I could obsess over the Brewers and I would bet for or against them EVERY GAME this year! So far I'm 22-19, up 3.02 units. You can see those at Grinders Warehouse. I'm getting paid for that blog BTW - I would appreciate it if you went to the blog and clicked on the International Year of Chemistry link on the right side.  It's to get kids excited about science through baseball.
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Anyway I golfed last night and had a rough night.  Not that I really golfed hideous, it was just one of those night where when the ball finally goes in the hole you count the strokes and  REALLY?  6 AGAIN?   I dressed very poorly.  Had a heavy floppy sweatshirt on, I was way to warm and cumbersome.

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Then there was the Stoughton Art Fair fiasco - some of you get my news letter so this is a repeat.
I want to apologize to all that might have been looking for me in Stoughton at their


Art Fair. I was suppose to be in booth #89 but all went horribly wrong.

If any of you watch Amazing Race you will understand this.

The cameras are filming DJ and I as we just successfully completed a challenge. Packing the UHaul with our mobile store and we are saying "that was the best, most organized packing job we have ever done", we are pumped to go to our first outdoor fair of the season. We are full of confidence and vigor. NOTHING CAN STOP US.

As we jump into the car and race off the camera slowly pans to two little unnoticed 2 foot, highly specialized aluminum pipes with special connections sitting in the corner!

We drive the hour to Stoughton and begin setting up when . . something is wrong! Where are my extender bars that will hold up the roof of my canopy!!!! OH NO!!!!!!

EZ Up canopy's are like umbrellas - hard to mess up, go up in seconds but in ANY kind of weather they also act like umbrellas in the wind. My Trimline canopy is mega study and awesome . . .except unlike a EZ Ups, every single piece is important for structural integrity.

SO - we could drive back and get the pieces wasting two hours, then spend the normal 2 hours setting up and be ready by noon. But the weather looked crappy, windy, cold, rain - we VERY disappointingly bailed out and took the $$ loss! NEXT YEAR. It looks like a good Fair.

So what did we do?  We drove 200+ miles to Door County and delivered 6 canvas prints to the Decorators Gallery in Egg Harbor AND - signed up for the 2 day Pumpkin Patch Festival in October.

481 miles later we are back and by 8:00pm and two humans, two cats and a dog are fast asleep in the living room with the Weather Channel on. It was a very long day.

Next Art Fair is June 4th in Deforest at the Dragon Art Fair which looks like a very very good Fair.


I've also been accepted into the Fitchburg Agora Art Fair August 20th and I'll find out about Lake Mills this week.

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Things are blooming in the backyard.   This is a shot of two Saxafraga with the purple Periwinkle

I've also been going over older files I have not looked at - here are a couple shots from Miller Park.

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I did a little roofing the lats few days helping Josh put on a new roof.  Not that I did THAT much but I did do a little deconstructing ripping shingles off and so forth.

Today is the big carpet cleaning day so I have to get all the furniture off the carpeting.  Once it's cleaned we going to but an actual  carpet cleaner so we can keep it clean. 

Weather is looking pretty good for the next 10 days - a little system going through the middle of next week but we should not have to worry about frost again and will be in the 70s for the most part.  Unsettled with a passing shower off and on but no all day rain or anything.

Nuff said!

You know when I'm not surrounded by coworkers for 8 hours a day I lose content!  Sort of miss the work family . . . . at times!  NOT THAT I'M COMPLAINING!!!

Rod