I had planned to try out a new feature yesterday called "Flashback Friday." I thought I would microblog about some of the stuff going on last week too minor to warrant a post of its own. Thing is, I never found a chance to sit down to write. I worked in our office until it was time to rush out the door for my "real" job, didn't get back home until 4 PM, and then Dan dragged me up to St. Ignace for a burger at Clyde's Drive-In and over to the casino where they're hosting the antique tractor show.
Highlight: Here's a photo of a 1956, 60 Series, John Deere tractor that is pretty much a dead-ringer for the tractor Mom sold last year to a man from downstate. He planned to restore it for tractor shows like this one. So, although it's not likely, it could be Dad's tractor. I wish we'd thought to write down its serial number before she sold it as there was no one there to ask about it.
Just seeing "Poppin' John" again brought back vivid memories of the whole "back-to-nature" mode my folks went through when Dad retired from the Air Force in 1972. On the family farm, we grew just about everything we consumed. Looking back on it, it's funny how they kinda got over it just as soon as there weren't any kids left at home to tend to all the animals and weed the gardens. Heh.
It was astonishing just how many people were in town yesterday to watch over 900 antique tractors parade across the bridge from Mackinaw City to St. Ignace. If there's a recession, I've seen little evidence of it in recent weeks. I'm pretty sure lower gas prices are a big part of the reason this summer wasn't a complete bust for local businesses. The outstanding weather we've been having these past several weeks (no rain and temps in the low-to-mid-70s every day) hasn't hurt our cause, either. The town is just about filled to capacity this weekend.
Yesterday, I sat down with Nick to discuss a catering for fourteen hundred boy scouts we have booked for next weekend. On my end of the list will be their dinner rolls and a large chocolate-chocolate chip cookie.
Do you have any idea just how much cookie dough I'm going to need? Yeah, me either. So I did the math and figure I'll need 120 pounds of dry ingredients, 24 pounds of butter, 120 eggs and 10,643 chocolate chips. No problem... if you have a cement truck to mix the dough. :/
Bottom line: I will have to somehow put aside one entire day just to cover their baking—when I don't have a shift to spare.
Hmm...looks like that first edition of Flashback Friday may have to wait until a week from Monday. [sigh]
— Robin
Just seeing "Poppin' John" again brought back vivid memories of the whole "back-to-nature" mode my folks went through when Dad retired from the Air Force in 1972. On the family farm, we grew just about everything we consumed. Looking back on it, it's funny how they kinda got over it just as soon as there weren't any kids left at home to tend to all the animals and weed the gardens. Heh.
It was astonishing just how many people were in town yesterday to watch over 900 antique tractors parade across the bridge from Mackinaw City to St. Ignace. If there's a recession, I've seen little evidence of it in recent weeks. I'm pretty sure lower gas prices are a big part of the reason this summer wasn't a complete bust for local businesses. The outstanding weather we've been having these past several weeks (no rain and temps in the low-to-mid-70s every day) hasn't hurt our cause, either. The town is just about filled to capacity this weekend.
Yesterday, I sat down with Nick to discuss a catering for fourteen hundred boy scouts we have booked for next weekend. On my end of the list will be their dinner rolls and a large chocolate-chocolate chip cookie.
Do you have any idea just how much cookie dough I'm going to need? Yeah, me either. So I did the math and figure I'll need 120 pounds of dry ingredients, 24 pounds of butter, 120 eggs and 10,643 chocolate chips. No problem... if you have a cement truck to mix the dough. :/
Bottom line: I will have to somehow put aside one entire day just to cover their baking—when I don't have a shift to spare.
Hmm...looks like that first edition of Flashback Friday may have to wait until a week from Monday. [sigh]
— Robin
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