It's Beer Garden Time

Jo took Friday off to enjoy some of the summer here in Milwaukee.  That of course would assume that summer actually comes.  It has continued to struggle to get into the low 60's much less the high 70's it is supposed to be.  We started her day off with our first long bike ride of the summer.  We got for a little over two hours and certainly noticed it the rest of the day.  Afterwards it was a haircut for Jo and then it was off to do some shopping.  We stopped first at Ethan Allen to pick up a lamp for the condo and to the container store where we spent several hours.  What a fun store especially for those of us that feel you can never be too organized.  We picked up some items to get our drawers a bit more orderly along with a few things for the kitchen.

Saturday we decided it was time to visit our favorite beer garden and the weather cooperated with a nice sunny day.  We made the beer and pretzel our lunch (aren't we eating great!) and we were going to head for frozen custard when we found that Jo's bike had suffered a flat.  So after pumping it back up we decided the smart thing was to head back to the apartment before it went flat again.  Shame to miss the custard though.

Our old neighborhood had a block party on Sunday and it was nice to catch up on the neighborhood doings since we left.  Also talked with the new owners of our house.  The garden beds are still intact and the strawberries are about three weeks from being ready for picking - too bad we won't be there to enjoy.