In sickness and in health, Mark and I trudged through these last few weeks of a nasty little virus I picked up at work. We’re still trying to figure out who was Patient Zero in the newsroom. Outside of work, we took it easy – pampering each other and making sure we ate regular meals. Sometimes I lose my appetite when I’m sick. Great for the waistline but terrible for the immune system.
We’re still getting some violent storms in this part of Kansas, but the weather is warming up and I’m looking forward to summer. This morning, I took my first run on Shunga Trail — since the floods swept through Topeka. It felt wonderful – pounding one foot in front of the other and watching the area heal from the flood damage.
Last week after my show, Mark surprised me with these fresh bake chocolate chip cookies. Yummy! Thank heavens one of us knows how to bake desserts.
This weekend was packed with live music and good food. This is a tasty beef brisket sandwich from the Coleman Hawkins Jazz Festival at Harley Town. Fun and smooth jazz music with tasty bbq flavors. Good times.
Yesterday, we headed out to Truckhenge for a free music concert, protesting he who shall not be named on this blog. The owner of Truckhenge constructed a series of trucks-sticking-out-of-the-ground installations to promote recycling, a political agenda of sorts and to bring Stonehenge to the Topeka-area. Neato. The owner also invited folks who were drinking-up a storm at the Music Phestival to camp-out….instead of driving home drunk. That was quite nice of him.
Biteboy drove all the way from Florida to headline the 3-day Phestival. Our camping chairs came in handy for the concert held in a dirt pit. Interesting live indie rock music with their hearts in the right place…but bugs kept eating us alive.
Since we forgot to BYOB to the Phestival…we headed over to Varsity Blues for some tasty pub food and beer. These fried mushrooms helped soak up the alcohol.
And this morning, we did lunch at Germanfest. Yummy. These are noodles and meatballs in a sage cream sauce. I enjoyed the home-cooked German food — all going towards fundraising for the area parishes. We also rocked out to a sweet sounding Drumline and cheered on kids smashing-up a car at the Car Smashing event. Good times.