There Should be a Law

Winter in Wisconsin is usually a long drawn out affair.  Starting in mid December and often going into late April.  Where the temperatures are at or below the 30's.  Living here, we know this and try our best to not complain - too, too much - about it.  But snow at the beginning of November is just wrong.  As I said, I realize we live in the snowier part of the country, but can't we at least slowly ease into winter with slowly (as in very slowly) dropping temperatures throughout November - for example, starting in the 50's at the beginning of the month and then maybe getting to the low 40's at the end.  Not below freezing temperatures in the first week.  Anyway, long winded complaint about the fact that we got several inches of snow last Friday that actually required me to shovel the front porch so that the newspaper and mail could arrive safely.  I will at least add, it was a really pretty snow clinging to all the trees and bushes.

With that fun under our belt, we saddled up the car with another load of books and misc. items from one house and headed to Madison to load up another house.  We had volleyball tickets for Friday and Saturday nights and the games did not disappoint with a nail biter Friday night in which the Badgers were able to stage a come from behind win after losing the first two games.  For Saturday night's game we were joined by John and Kathy and afterwards celebrated the last home game of the season with some drinks at a local bar.  The picture of John is to deliver on my promise to post a photo of his "cute pink" drink (it actually contained bourbon but it came out looking quite pretty). 

For the rest of the weekend in Madison, we did a little shopping and picked up the last of our furniture we had ordered.  Our condo now has coffee and end tables in front of all the new sofas and chairs we had bought.  We think we are finally done with all the major furniture purchases with the remaining furniture to fill the place sitting in our other house.  We also enjoyed a Geno's lasagna dinner with Kathy and John before the game.  Anytime you visit us in Madison, you should feel free to insist that we feed you Geno's lasagna.  It is the best lasagna around and Jo has even agreed it isn't worth her making her lasagna when we can just buy Geno's.

We came home early Sunday and enjoyed a morning brunch (as opposed to an afternoon brunch?) in downtown Milwaukee with our friends John and Linda.  They were in town visiting their daughter who moved here this year.  It was great catching up with them and enjoying the "bacon flight" at brunch.