The Brewers Trump "The List"

It's over. The Man is sad. He will have to find a new subject of conversation with The Guys At Work. But what could have been more exciting than those last Brewers' games where they won by home runs in the ninth and tenth innings? And that post-season hootenanny on Saturday at Miller Park? Such entertainment in the midst of this disgusting election season and dismaying financial news.

I know, I know. I’m supposed to be reviewing restaurants in the Third Ward. We are going to Water Buffalo on the 16th, as we couldn’t find a free date before then. After the Connecticut trip, The Man and I cheered nieces and nephew’s children at soccer and football games and spent a weekend watching eagles gathering along the Mississippi River for the winter.

The eagle watching was last weekend. My brother (we call him Odie) needed to take his houseboat from his slip in Trempeleau WI to its winter home in Wabasha, MN. (I know: you’re jealous. My family is more fun than yours.) Odie asked if we’d like to come along. Like, duh! It was absolutely fabulous. The scenery was fabulous. (See photo I will try to include here -- okay, so I can't include it "here". It's at the top of this page.) The wine and sunsets were fabulous. Watching the magnificent bald eagles diving for fish in the backwater bays along the river was fabulous. Eating pan-fried walleye and locally-grown produce at the Trempeleau Hotel restaurant was fabulous. Touring the new Eagle Center in Wabasha was fabulous. Munching Gala and Wealthy and Cortland apples from orchards in western Wisconsin was fabulous. Altogether a fabulous weekend.

So The Man was out of town for two weekends in a row, plus Labor Day weekend. (With me, of course. He’s still a hunk who women hit on in bars. He needs my protection.) Not much from the nag’s (me) work list got done around here in September. The list is growing. And then there was this weekend. All sports, all the time. Would you think it was possible to play two Brewers’ post-season baseball games and two football games (Badgers and Packers) in one weekend? I think the last of them is just over. Quiet seems to have returned to my house. The Man is probably napping after trying to sort out television and radio playing – at the same time. Besides, now it is raining. Is that fair? Well, The Man did dig the post-hole for the fence construction that tops my list. And he bought the needed fence boards during half-time or the seventh-inning stretch or something.

Will this fence get built before the snow flies? The Brewers’ season is over. There is hope.

Stirring the Pot