Saturday, the hot-th of July

Greetings, earthlings.
Out late last night practicing music for a couple of upcoming gigs. On the 20th of July I will play flute and pennywhistle with Paul and Suzanna Gilk for the wedding ceremony of Kyle Lord and Laura Larson. Kyle is the younger son of a good buddy, Ivan. This should be a good time, as Paul and Suzanna and I have played quite alot together over the years. We played a similar event a few years back when Angie Blennert got hitched to Dean. In fact, that's Angie playing the bass during one of our gigs at Mondeaux Flowage Lodge!!

As Paul and Suzanna will have to leave immediately after the wedding ceremony (playing on the cruise boat on the Willow Flowage), a different musical group will play later for the reception. That will consist of Angie and Dean, Russ and Laurie and me. Angie will play the bass for a few songs and her new Dobro for some others! Dean plays acoustic 6-string (self taught over the last few years) and sings. He knows a ton of the "classic country" stuff, honky tonk, etc. Russ has taught himself the bass, he got a nice Fender early model Precision bass (like Dusty Hill Plays :-) ). That's it in the pic of Angie. He also recently acquired a Fender acoustic bass with built in pickup. Sounds good. Laurie is a singer and mountain dulcimer player. Also doing quite well on pennywhistle. I think I heard mention of her taking some lessons on a fiddle.... me, I just haul along the Epiphone Sheraton electric thinline semi-accoustic and irritate everyone by goofing around with leads whether there is anyone singing or not. So we will play until everyone leaves or we have too many beers to continue. Should be good.
Of course, Dean made a deal to play for this wedding if I agree to play at his parents Labor day party. So we'll be in Burlington, Wi, over labor day. Liz?? Kate?? Anyone feel like a short trip to a 'fabulous musical event'? I told Dean I was going to invite some people.....


This morning I finally got around to installing an air conditioner in Lucy's bedroom. I needed to put in a suitable outlet in that room, run some wire from there back to the breaker panel and terminate the wire in there. Then went through the install procedure for the unit and got it going. It will make a big difference on these hot, muggy evenings.

Only a week to go until the fishing trip to Lake of the Woods! I'm going with several of the Lords, relatives and friends.
Here's a cool, interactive
map of the general location. Check out the zoom feature..... Here's another that has a little
closer view. I think we are going to the area of the Souix Narrows. I assume we will be catching numerous finny creatures like the one in he photo. We will eat countless Walleye fillets and consume untold numbers of cold beverages..... This will be my first such trip in quest of the elusive Canadian Walleye, so I'm not sure what to expect other than bunking in a large cabin, traveling many miles via boat to fish, shore lunches, evening fish frys and someone mentioned that there may be a tavern somewhere near...... We will travel back on the following Thursday. The following morning I will travel to Slinger/Hartford area for the infamous Pool Week, second in popularity only to Bike Week at Daytona Beach. Should be a hoot!!!!!

Sigh an are ah, dudes.......

Just went back to the blog to see how this looks.
O.K., I guess, it's the first time I've had the patience to put the photos right in the text. I like the effect better but it takes quite a bit longer for some reason..... any input????