I took Buddy the Dog for a walk and we saw two sandhill cranes circling and landing in the field just up the road. They make a very strange sound. Tom and Michelanagelo got all the light bulbs needed for the car, and we managed to get to Prairie du Sac in time to catch the parade. This was the biggest crowd in quite a while by all accounts, possibly the largest ever. It was a beautiful day to be out, it is the Labor Day weekend and the weather having been so unpleasant lately, especially in the southern part of the county, I think everyone wanted to take advantage. We watched the beginning of the chip tossing, but didn't hang around for the entire event.
Tom and Michelangelo each had a pork-chop-on-a-stick -- a "traditional" fair food around here. Deciding to eat something healthier, I chose a turkey sandwich on pita bread. It was undoubtedly the only healthy item available and also pretty tasteless. They bought t-shirts -- "Chips happen" -- but did not buy the cow-chip shaped hats that were going for fifteen bucks apiece.
On the way back we stopped in Baraboo to discover that everything downtown -- not that much to begin with -- closes by 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. We managed to sneak under the wire to get something cold to drink at a candy shop where Tom got some plain licorice and Michelangelo got a chocolate bar. I was too cheap to buy anything but gracious enough to sample theirs.
Then home to fix the car lights (them), eat lasagna (all of us), sit out talking on the deck (all the humans, Buddy the Dog and Sundance) and bring this up-to-date (me).
And to all a good night.
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