Farmer's Market

While Jo jetted off to Guadalajara for business last week, I held down the home fort tending to the garden, removing weeds from the flower beds, and mostly, watching the Olympics.  I'm fascinated by dedication some people can put to their sports and their ability to reach a level of physical fitness that is quite amazing.  I'm quite disappointed that the Olympics only last a couple of weeks and are only every four years.  I'm also fascinated by the varied sports that people engage in and the sets of arcane rules that evolve for any sport after time (e.g., check out rugby and field hockey).

On a more social note - my sister visited on Friday and Saturday.  We started out on Friday, with a light lunch of tacos before hitting Boswell's bookstore (it is a theme for the weekend).  This is almost a ritual for Cheryl's visits and she is actually member of their book club - where the person who actually lives a mile from the store isn't.  Afterwards, we picked up Jo and headed over to Madison for Cheryl's first visit to our condo there.  After a dinner at Paisan's, where I enjoyed a graduate school favorite of a porta salad, we hit Kilwan's for a some excellent ice cream to top off dinner while we sat on State Street and people watched.  Afterwards, we caught up with each other while we enjoying a lightening storm from our balcony.

Saturday morning we were up early to hit the Farmer's market.  The weather cooperated by holding off on the rain as we picked up some fresh corn, vegetables, herbs and, of course, a cinnamon-apple pull apart loaf for us all to enjoy (although I was talked out of an additional delicious looking long john by my in-house nutritionist).  Then we shopped our way down State Street to the Memorial Union again fortunately missing all the major rain storms as we progressed.  We met Kathy, John, and our great niece Maggie at the Union where we enjoyed lunch and Babcock ice cream (pick up the dessert theme yet).  Then it was time to shop our way up State Street this time hitting all the bookstores - UW, Paul's, Browzer, and A Room of One's Own.  I must admit I certainly enjoyed the up State shopping more than the down State.

Then it was time to head back to Milwaukee for a quick dinner of squash, beans, and rice before sis caught the train back to Chicago.  Sunday morning, Jo and I biked out to the State Fair grounds for our bit of aerobic exercise, hit the gym for a bit of lifting and then watched the last little bit of the Olympics.