Summer Edition: Part 2

Summer…Randomness!

• The joys of Wisconsin State Fair Ag Staff, again…11 more days!
• How to drive a Case IH Scout.
• How to survive WSF without Dana.
• WSF is held together by zip ties. 
• How to bike to Lancaster from home!
• How much you can miss being with middle schoolers, especially after teaching kids age 10 and under!
• Whether it rains today, in a week, or next year, we are blessed!
• How to pick 40 pounds of strawberries in just a couple hours with 4 people! And how to use them all!
• How much I love calves.
• Relearned how amazing the Anne of Green Gables books are…as well as the movies!
• It’s all about the experience: From getting lost in Madison to going to Yo Mama’s near Milwaukee.
• How difficult it is to look around and see the results of drought.
• “Ego is the anesthesia of stupidity.”
• There are just too many movies out there that Dana and I want to see. I don’t know if we’ll ever get through them all!
• How much fun a picnic in the park can be!
• I was not meant to go camping or at least not be in charge of choosing a campsite!
• Books are good. I love books. Probably too much!
• If you see a bunch of people on the side of the street, especially in a small town, think about the fact that maybe there is a parade happening. Find a way out!!! Or you will just get stuck watching a rather boring and long small town parade.
• Going to fairs when you are ‘old’ is really strange and not as much fun.
• Sometimes you don’t realize how much you missed someone until you see them again.
• Back up your laptop, A LOT! But be thankful that your new one came in the mail the day before your old one crashed.
• Don’t even think you are going to leave home at the time you planned. It’s not going to happen.
• You should not wait 5 years to use a pan you had your mom buy specifically for a recipe.
• You know you are a WSF ag staffer when you get super excited about bright colored zip ties at the Dollar Tree.
• I really like Cinderella 3. Such a good movie.
• You know you are at a small town grocery store when there is almost more alcohol there than food. 
• When you run out of cloths pins...never fear! Just use chip clips!
• How to keep in decent contact with your sister in Africa!