Busy weekend for us as we entertained, took in some baseball and hiked ourselves into blisters on our feet. But to start, I felt it was time to start including some vegetable garden photos. Our lettuce, spinach, and Brussels sprouts are starting to work their way upwards. Although the cool temperatures we are experiencing this year is slowing down everything. Friday started with us having over Jean and Ed and Marcia and Daryl. Jo worked with Jean and Marcia before they both retired within the last year. We whipped up a vegetarian pasta along with our favorite French bread (yes, we make it a lot, but it is so simple and easy to make -just yeast, salt, water, and flour - and delicious hot out of the oven). It was interesting to hear how the two couples are adjusting to retirement and we got to hear some funny stories about their work history that they hadn't shared while working.
Saturday morning we did our usual exercising to try and stave off the ravages of aging and then headed over to Miller Park to take in a Brewer's game, with some of Jo's HR team, in the Northwestern Mutual suite. We decided to try something new and biked to the stadium which worked out really well and certainly made handling the post-game traffic a breeze. It was a perfect day for baseball with temperatures in the 70's and sunny but unfortunately our Brewers couldn't generate enough offense to win. We enjoyed the usual sausage race and in keeping with my Milwaukee baseball posting tradition - a picture of the famous racing sausages is attached. Our neighbor's daughters are inside two of the sausages, the Polish (that is the one with the red striped shirt) and Italian (the one that looks like a chef). 
Sunday morning we rolled right out of bed and after a short drive we hiked one of the segments of the Ice Age trail (a 1,000 mile trail across Wisconsin). For this week we did the Holy Hill segment which is an ~6 mile hike to the namesake, Holy Hill. We started out with cloudy skies and cool temperatures and by the end the skies cleared and the temperatures/humidity shot up. We got to see the monastery on Holy Hill although there were services going on when we got there so we weren't able to see inside. The trail was interesting with multiple kettles and moraines (kettles are depressions and moraines are small hills both made from when glaciers covered Wisconsin) along with a mix of hiking through forests and open grassland. Also some very nice vistas at various points along the trail. After about four hours we made it back to the car although each with a few blisters on our feet.
The remainder of Sunday was lazing around reading the newspaper and nursing our sore feet and legs. Then all too soon it was time to start thinking about the week ahead.
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