It Might Be Fall

The weather took a turn towards fall this last week.  Our temperatures late in the week fell into the comfortable low 70's and leaves have started to fall from the trees.  Now wether that is due to the fall temperatures or our lack of rain this summer, I sure don't know.  But regardless of the cause, it is time to pull out the rakes and start moving the leaves around the yard.

As you might guess, we were in Madison again this weekend.  Jo had a board meeting for the chemistry department and I spent the day working on projects around the condo.  This meant getting up a new drying rack in the laundry room, installing some shelves in the closets, and doing a general overall cleaning to get rid of the last of the construction dust.  Fortunately on this visit we didn't have any of our appliances squirting water everywhere, but I realized we haven't tried out our new grill - so maybe we have a chance at a fireball in our future.  Kathy and John came over for dinner - bringing my favorite Rocky's sausage pizza - and to enjoy eating at our new dining room table that came that day.  So in case you are keeping track, we now have living room, dining room, and family room furniture - almost becoming a real house.

Saturday morning dawned bright blue and comfortably cool.  After hitting the Farmer's market for Jo's weekly gallon of apple cider and a few ears of sweet corn, we headed out for a lovely stroll along the lakefront to Picnic Point.  Great walk, but it did us leave us a bit sore later since it was about six miles - and that doesn't count the three miles we walked later in the day.  We also had tickets to a volleyball game, since we wouldn't want a weekend to pass without attending some sporting event.  It was a great game with the Badger women defeating the Rutger Scarlet Knights in three sets.  We decided then to come home early so we could spend a weekend day at home.

Sunday we decided on a bike ride in the morning, mostly to justify heading to Culver's for a concrete mixer (their version of a DQ blizzard) for our lunch time treat.  We then spent some time catching up on reading the numerous newspapers that have accumulated and preparing BBQ ribs with mashed potatoes and our farmer market's sweet corn for dinner.  Great way to end the week.