Another annual meeting

First up is the weather, we went from blistering hot and humid to absolutely gorgeous weather all in the space of a day.  We were absolutely sweltering for almost a week as temperatures hit the 90's while the dew point was up in the 70's.  We caved in and turned on the air conditioner although it certainly made me wonder what people did before someone invented it.  They were probably a lot tougher than we are today.  Anyway, on Saturday the temperatures dropped 20 degrees and most importantly the dew point fell back into a more comfortable 50's.  Made my run on Saturday morning so much more enjoyable.

Most of the rest of the week was taken up with painting (there is always something that needs painting on this house) and Northwestern Mutual's annual meeting.  This year we had five straight evenings of dinners/events we needed to attend.  So while filet mignon is always good, night after night of it does tend to wear.  The 5K/10K race that it is held with the meeting enjoyed the milder temperatures so we both had a nice run along with 8,000 other participants.  The only dark cloud on this year's event was the rain storm that started 20 minutes before the start of the garden party at the Milwaukee zoo.  We managed to stay dry under the tents although we didn't stay as long since it was so moist.  This meant that I only downed 2 Sprecher root beer floats this year (not like my 3 last year, I still have the goal of trying to get to 4 one year).


This year's concert entertainment was Tim McGraw.  I only knew one of his songs so it was hard to really get into the music.  It doesn't help that country music isn't my favorite music genre.  But even with all that, he did put on a high energy show with almost no breaks.  But I also must be getting really old as I felt the music was being played entirely too loud to really understand the words he was singing.  I must admit that Northwestern certainly gets some big stars to put on their concerts.

For the rest of the weekend, we worked out and piddled around the house with various chores.  We have managed to harvest a few more peas and some lettuce.  The first crop of beans are looking ready so we hope to have some fresh beans with our weekend dinners.