This evening our friend Michael Allocca is coming up from Chicago. (There are so many Michaels around that we call him by his full name -- Michelangelo.) Michelangelo is a doctoral student at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, teaches Latin and theology at St. Rita Catholic High School and is very active in the parish I lived in in Hyde Park, St. Thomas the Apostle. He and Tom have known one another for about ten years and worked together at the parish in a number of things. He also teaches in the Basic Program, a liberal arts education program offered for mature adults by the University in which Tom's former father-in-law teaches and which Helen took. Michelangelo taught a course about one of the founders of the Carmelite community, so that is one of many interests we have in common.
He is coming up here to go to the Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw tomorrow in Prairie du Sac. Last year our friend Karl came from California for this. He moved with his family to Texas this year and is going to college in Houston, so I guess he is getting enough cow manure slinging without having to travel this year. I will post some pictures if I can after the event. On Sunday we are thinking about going to Ho-Chunk pow-wow at Black River Falls.
The cow chips for the contest -- and the ones that they throw out of this giant wooden cow in the parade beforehand -- are the real thing, well dried, of course. The winners here go on to the nationals in Oklahoma. The candy pictured is from a candy company in Baraboo that I drive by on the way to work every morning. They do look a bit like the real thing, but made with chocolate, caramel, pecans, milk and butter. I also bought some licorice saltwater taffy at another local candy shop -- it has black and white markings like a Holstein.Tom has already made lasagna for Saturday night and is making beef stew for tonight. I think Sunday he is making Chinese. I get to goof off!
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