2012- Week 46

1. I was in the office last Friday when Russel, from the OHP, stopped by to talk to a co-worker.  He was mentioning some musicals he was interested in and I told him I really wanted to do Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for the HS, but was afraid of content.  He told me Waukon was doing so that night, so I rearranged my schedule a bit and went to show.  It went well and sealed the deal on me doing it for the high school.

2.  Bryce's parents, after leaving Door County, went to Minnesota for a few days and then stopped at our house for the weekend.  We had fun playing more board games.  It was a very rainy weekend.

3.  Bryce and I went to the Harvest Dinner in Prairie.  It was delightful.  We had a totally local meal from the wheat in the buns to the beer and everything in between.  We also had great company at our table.   I loved meeting my boss's husband (Kevin) who owns a locker and had some interesting stories and The Austins, who were some of the farmers of the meal, were great keeping conversation fun.

Joleen with a class who just got their new t-shirts.

4. We are doing Pumpkin as the Harvest of the Month for November.  I got Joleen Jansen, who hobby farms pumpkins, to come and speak with the classes as well as provide all the pie pumpkins needed for the schools.  I have been a puree making machine.

5.   Both the van and the car overheated this week so we had to borrow two other cars.  The belt broke in the van and had to be taken to the shop.  It was too big of a job for my dad and the car just has a small leak in the antifreeze so we just have to keep a close eye on it until we find it.

6.  I had another overnight in Wisconsin for the AmeriCorps opening ceremony in Madison.  It wasn't totally worth the drive, but I liked seeing the Wisconsin State Capitol and meeting someone who had met Eleanor Roosevelt and I got plenty of shopping done for Whimsy Market.

7.  As I just mentioned, I got lots of stuff up and redecorated for Whimsy Market.  A lot of my merchandise had sold over the fall and I hadn't been out on many shopping excursions so the place wasn't looking as nice as I wanted.  Now it is looking good.

8.  I went to see Argo at the theater by myself.  It was really good.

 9. Stocked up on glow sticks in the Halloween clearance aisle and Link got a glow bath.  He loved it. 

10. On Friday my parents' agri co-op had a fancy customer appreciation dinner for the whole state in Waterloo at the Casino.  So they brought us all.  It was yummy and afterwards my siblings and their spouses and my parents gambled, but Bryce and I went shopping with Link instead.  We had forgotten that they still allow smoking in casinos in Iowa.  Instant headache.