This weekend was a busy one. We attempted to get another composter, went to the Lanesboro Rhubarb Festival, attempted to listen to music in the park, made a couple of loaves of ciabatta and made the best pizza I’ve had in a while. Again, it was a busy weekend.
We started Saturday morning by going to the mall to get a subsidized composter and requisite tools. However on our arrival, we found that there were a couple hundred people that had the same idea. There was quite a line! The event officially opened at 9:00am, and we arrived there around then. It seems we should have showed up a wee bit earlier. So seeing the masses, we decided it would be a good idea to just skip it. We thought we’d just come back later and see if there were any compost tuners or kitchen pails left after the rhubarb festival.
Now that we were thwarted in getting a composter, the next thing on the schedule was the rhubarb festival in Lanesboro, MN. This is a small town festival, and it is basically just an excuse to tool around Lanesboro and get some rhubarb. They have a farmer’s market, rhubarb olympics (stalk toss, rhubarb golf, etc), a recipe competition and a bake sale. Half of the fun is going around Lanesboro, which is really a cute little rural town, with fun shops and a good German restaurant, complete with an old guy that plays an accordian. Fun stuff. We even found they had free kittens. One which we almost went home with.
See more pictures from the Rhubarb Festival.
After a couple of hours and 5 pounds of rhubarb heavier we decided it was time to go home. I should say now that the weather all day on Saturday was a bit iffy. It had rained hard with some thunder and also sprinkled.
The next thing on the agenda was to go to Jim and Pam’s concert in Central Park. We arrived there around 4:00pm, just as they were starting to play. The song was Olympic Spirit and was pretty good. Just as I was about to get up to get some popcorn, they announced that that was the last song and the concert was over. This was because there was a tornado warning and didn’t want to risk having people be outside. So that was over. Too bad too, because it sounded pretty good.
After that, we went home and it rained quite a bit. Although, it was not as bad as the rain in Northern Iowa and in Mower county. Hopefully everyone there is safe.
More later on our Sunday activities.
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