Fall Football Season

Not much news to report from last week.  The weather has been on the warm side as the end of August/beginning of September is trying to make up for all the cool weather in early August.  We are still plugging along with our daily runs and exercise and Jo has been relatively busy at work.  Most of my outside projects have finished up so I' have been concentrating on getting the gardens cleaned up for the coming winter and a few chores inside.  Otherwise nothing too exciting happened in Milwaukee last week.  Our garden continues to chug along and is producing copious numbers of cucumbers right now and the green beans keep on coming. 

We spent the weekend in Madison enjoying a Badger football game.  Kathy had some friends who were tailgating before the 11 AM game so we joined them bringing along some excellent monkey bread (thanks to Linda and John - mostly Linda - for introducing us to this quick to make dessert).  Since we aren't likely to get a picture with the actual Wisconsin mascot, we settled for his blow-up version.  I must say that some tailgaters really get into these before game festivities - such as bringing along a generator to blow up your inflatable Bucky.  But that paled in comparison to the person who purchased an ambulance, redecorated the outside in Wisconsin colors and emblems and used it as a mobile tailgate. 


We had a great time at the game although it was incredibly hot throughout the first two quarters as the temperatures was in the high 80's-low 90's and naturally, the humidity was high.  Fortunately, some clouds built in later in the game to cool the fans down a little.  Wisconsin won which is always nice when you attend the game.  For those who haven't experienced it, Jo made a video of the Wisconsin student section rocking out to Jump in the third quarter.  The video doesn't do justice to seeing all those students just jumping up and down in person.  After the game we enjoyed some Rocky Rococo's pizza which is my favorite U of W pizza (although it can't hold a candle to U of I's best pizza - Papa Del's).