Recreation 2017

Minooka Park, Area 5, Tuesday August 16, 6:00pm, will be an all skills level ride led by a prestigious member of Metro Mountain Bikers. A chance to see what the mountain bike trails at Minooka are all about, if you don’t know already. And don’t forget about the Wednesday Night Races which will finish out the season at the Alpha Trail.

Or if you are looking for more immediate gratification The Warrior Dash is tomorrow at The Rock in Franklin Wisconsin. I hear they have heats going off every half hour.

I haven’t gotten down to my race weight yet, but, believe it or not, I have gotten out to ride. And I have found myself not out of shape. Comes from good living.

My wife said to me the other day. “Let’s take a weekend off and go on vacation.”

“That’s a lot of chocolate.” I answered in a most serious of tone.

“What?” she looked bewildered.

“The money we would lose from not selling and what we would spend on vacation…. That’s a lot of chocolate.”

“You’re right.” my wife sighed a moment later.

Take heed young men. The learning never stops here. You have to speak to woman in a language they can understand.

 

This was our vacation; baseball and The state Fair. Okay, I had to wait fifteen minutes for a hotdog at the stadium, or in other words until every other line had been completely worked through. The guy was working hard, he just gave everyone else their orders, including some guy who kept walking over from the drink concessions, before he would give me my hotdog. Then he tried to hand me three. “One hotdog.” I said and then, “Thank you.” Not sure if the two people waiting behind me for the other two hotdogs thanked him.

One of the hottest most humid days of the year and we went to The State Fair. we did out culinary rounds and struck up a conversation with a couple at a shared table. The gentleman looked familiar. I saw on Facebook one of my high school classmates was at the fair at the same time.

We watched some fat pigs attempt to make it around a race track and then hit all the vendors. Thank God for air conditioning. I bought some glue. The We Energies facility had a nice educational garden but their Solar Speedway show was cancelled because of clouds. So much for solar energy. This globe, one of many was in their garden display. I bowled with a guy whose daughter made those, with some autistic group, out of old bowling balls. I had given him a couple. …could be?

They were changing out the animals in most of the barns so we couldn’t see much in that regard. I think the DNR display facilities improve every year.

I looked for the dog shows on the State Fair site but couldn’t find the K9 activity stage listed (it was under family entertainment). But we caught a show no problem. They are pretty much continuous.

Getting cream puffs over to my parents house before they melted and home to watch the Olympics rounded out our day. Watching the women gymnasts I imagined anorexics everywhere were cheering for the Chinese.

I really know how to plan a vacation.

With the heat, the 4th of July and thunderstorms Ike our dog has been stressed and is still having seizures though far fewer than before. We bought a second round of “thuja” a homeopathic medicine. There seems to be some marked improvement. Perhaps the first  round had been energy depleted somehow. That’s how those homeopathies work.

Don’t be calling me homeophobic.

I think I will bring an end to my “40 Below” Yahoo group site. I will print out my exercise journal from that site for posterity. I started a new exercise journal on excel on a really old Internet non-compatible computer.

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