Weekend in Review...

For the first time in many weekends, I actually had two days off! I think you could officially call this the weekend of cleaning in our house. Friday, Susan cleaned the entire main floor of Hakelstien Manor. When I came home from work I thought that I walked into the wrong home. It's not that we are messy people, we just have not been around to clean in awhile. The place looked amazing!

Friday night we went to an Oktoberfest celebration in Nordeast. Every year Gasthof's has a GIGANTIC tent set up in their parking lot for most of September and into October. It is a great place to go and drink German beer, play a game called Hammerschlogen and watch people. You will see everything from 21 year olds with fresh livers to old men and their wives who just may have helped invent kegged beer.

Saturday, I finally finished the touch up work on the front room that I have been working on. It looks good, Red is a tricky color to get just right. From there I moved on to the upstairs. We are painting this room a gun metal color. When I started to put the color down I was a little unsure if I liked the color, but after one wall was done I loved it. The color somehow manages to both brighten and warm the room. I did not expect this from a darker tone.

Today has been very productive as well. We got up this morning, put on a coat of paint and then proceeded to scrub the floor in the basement. I realized today that I need to do a little bit of landscaping this fall. Somehow we have water creeping in from somewhere outside. I took a look around and I am pretty sure I know where it is getting in, now it will be a matter of changing the lay of the land.

One special announcement and then we are done for this afternoon. This coming Saturday (the 29th) I will be playing with the Jack Brass Band at the Times Bar and Cafe in Minneapolis. This promises to be a special show and I would urge all of you who have supported the band over the past five years to come out one more time.