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Fall Road trip

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   The weather was crazy unseasonable, we packed shorts and made the mad after work dash across the state towards UWL. It was parent's weekend, and we essentially hurried, sped, and hustled just enough to get to the field for the final pictures of the alumni game.  It was all good thought, Grace was chomping hunger so we texted Merrick to meet us after work and headed for the Distillery for some nosh.  With our fill of brussel sprouts and a to go bottle of watermelon gin we headed for the exits and dropped some frozen chicken off at Merrick's apartment. We made plans for breakfast in the morning and then Amy and I headed back to our Hotel bar for some cocktails and the some unexpected entertainment.  The Queen of all country bars was talking loud enough for all to hear as she sent back her "I'll try a fancy cocktail - an old fashion" after a single sip in exchange for a Busch in a bottle.  All this while she was trying to set her daughter up with the bar te...
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Birthday Girl

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  Amy likes a birthday month, and with such an early birthday she tends to get it.  While not officially her day, we did start to honor her additional trip around the sun on Friday night.  Waking from our now required Friday post work naps and after a brief discussion of options we headed back to one of her favorite restaurants, a' Bravo.  Sadly, it is clearly on its way out, without major changes, but we gladly headed to Plae Bistro for desert and another drink at the bar. We ended the night with a little couch and movie time. Birthday ended up having a bit of a theme.  We stumbled on a great band, Clay Street Unit, over the summer and their merch became available again so Amy scored a new shirt and album to this we added concert tickets for January (The Last Revel) and eventually made our way to the French Clay house to make some coffee mugs...so from Clay Music to Music and Clay.  We did spend a beautiful fall morning walking around the Farmers Market an...
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W is for Wine

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Wednesdays are seemingly meant to share wine. The vineyard was ready to be harvested, there was woodsmoke in the air to accompany the crispness of the season.  We had to pick up our monthly wine club allotment anyways...so might as well share a bottle and take a mid-week breather.  We had our eye on some spots near the outdoor fire, but were beat to the seats and after sitting outside for a little while we decided to head indoors.  We grabbed the nook near the indoor fire place, sat elbow to elbow and enjoyed our Malbec.  The host cum sommelier  walked us through each of our 6 selections and were were pleased at the appearance of the TLR sangiovese.  Amy's old principal happened upon us and spent some time catching up and generally lamenting on the state of affairs in education before we headed home for a quasi-charcutier board for dinner.
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Brew Crew Bus

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  It was our first bus trip and honestly was more evidence that "old people know things." In truth most of the people on the bus were about our age...but we were way outclassed in drinking ability and it made sense that they were all on the bus.  Lynn had invited us along with her, Dave and Jan and Ron to watch the Brewers take on the Minnesota Twins.  It was a late game but that gave our busy crew plenty of time to tailgate before the brewers ultimate loss.  We did see some home runs and Bernie slide down the big shoot as we sweated our way through all nine innings.  Amy got her brat late in the game and we took the long way around the stadium back to the bus...but were still not the last ones back.  We were ready to be home, but I was grateful to not have to drive all the way back home.  By the time we did get home we were both pretty sore from sitting...lots and lots of sitting was a hard on the body.
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It's a Big Circle!

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  A plan came together quickly, Becky and Brad had some time off and didn't know what to do so we all meet online, tossed around a few plans and ultimately did the classic Lake Michigan circle tour.  They headed to our place on Wednesday night and then we caravaned to Manitowoc for poor lunch at Lates, a drink at the Wharf and then several cosmos on the Badger.  The lake was glass smooth and we arrived in Ludington about 8 pm local time.  Amy created a new survival strategy for the loud sound of the blast horn.  Arms out, squat low; this would become a funny gag all week. Amy and I had, Pearl, and she was literally the last car off the ferry.  We even considered the possibility that maybe she was left behind on the Manty Side.  It did give us time to watch an irate man with a new truck chastise an employee for all the coal dust coating both he inside and outside of his vehicle.  The other two were already checked in to their hotel room by a very b...
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basic Saturday

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Pretty normal Saturday, the air was clear after multiple days of Canadian wild fire smoke and it wasn't showing signs of oppressive heat.  We had coffee on the patio and played the various words games before heading to the farmers market.  We scored some blueberries, Amy had a horrible brown sugar shaken espresso and we split some stuffed chicken wings.  We wander the market and ultimately the trail back towards the car, stopping off at Fox harbor's patio.  We split some fries and each had a drink as we discussed plans for the rest of the day.  It was pretty windy on the water so we nixed kayaking and instead drive to Dicks and bought Amy a set of golf clubs before heading to the TR par 3 course.  She worked out the kinks on the range and broke in her new new gear on the links.  Easily making par on the first hole.  It is a nice course and had the right amount of challenge for us. A few sausages on the grill to round out th...
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we do stuff...

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"we do stuff" has become a reoccurring phrase the past few weeks.  We are adventuring and having fun but they are small, daily, and often have day decisions; not large grandiose events that will wow anyone at a party or teacher in service week. Friday morning we awoke workout a plan.  By noon we were in the car heading to Rosholt to drop off the books for Ella... As long as we drove this far we might as well head to EC.  We took some back roads and eventually hit 10.  We grabbed some fresh curds from a small dairy and munched as we drove through the hills, fields and turns off the central forest. We met up with Bob& Nancy at there place before going to check out the skills competition at the Kubb championships.   It was some legit tossers and Amy immediately picked her favorite player "glitter shoes" from San Francisco.  We stopped at heartbreaker's off J for a drink and some more cheese curds before heading back...
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