Good Times Around Here Last Weekend-- Part 1: Wisconsin, Trivia, Bars, $1 Pints, Flowers, Fish Fry and What a View

Again, the Summer is no time to leave this area. Lots of fun going on all over this part of northeast Illinois.

WEDNESDAY,  JULY 7

Met Kevin and Kelly at Donovan's in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, for Jeff's Smart Ass Trivia in the afternoon, then went to BB*Q on US-12 in Spring Grove, Illinois for their excellent wings and plenty of $1 pints of draft beer to wash them down.

THURSDAY, JULY 8

Finally flowers on sale at Menard's so really stocked up.  50 cent geraniums, 50 cent six packs of annuals, $1.25 for six wave petunias. It was all sorts of fun at check out and I still don't know if I ended up over or undercharged.  Oh, well.  Those flowers found a good home for the rest of the season.

FRIDAY, JULY 9

Every morning, I sit out on the front porch for breakfast coffee and to read the Chicago Tribune.  I doubt that anyone in the subdivision gets more use out of their front porch.

Went back to Menard's and bought even more flowers.  Hey, on big sale.  Last year, with the pandemic and folks staying home and planting stuff around those house, there weren't many sales at all.  Usually, by July stores start putting their nursery stuff on sale.

We went to Cuda's on Grasslake Road in Antioch and met Kevin and Kelly and had their beer-battered fish fry, always a delight, even if we like to froze because the air conditioning was hiked up way too high.  Then, adjourned to Lake View on Grasslake and enjoyed that great view of the lake from their high deck and, of course, those $1 draft beers.

--RoadDog