Last Friday Heidi and I decided to use our Weber grill and make some pesto chicken breasts. It seemed like a good idea, until the storm with 70 MPH winds came. The chicken breasts finished broiling in the oven and Heidi and I looked out in amazement, thankful we were inside and safe.
The next morning Samantha, Beau’s girlfriend, hosted an old-fashioned house-raising party in the morning where we went to La Salle, IL and helped tear off the roof of an old foreclosed home she bought. She had tons of family and friends to help and it was a good time. But I overdid it in the morning when I was throwing bricks off the roof. I think it was a combination of sun, heat, dehydration, and physical exercise. At one point, I couldn’t see or hear anything. I just laid down on the roof, waiting until it got better. That was pretty much the end of my productivity that morning.
That night, Heidi and I joined our friends John and Alicia for the Ravinia festival where we hear Garrison Keillor do a live recording of “A Prairie Home Companion.” It was GREAT! Normally I’m lukewarm about the show. I didn’t grow up on it and some of the voices and personalities don’t make sense to me. Seeing it live made all the difference. Now I have faces to go with the voices — including all the crazy sounds coming from this one man:
Most of the musicians we heard were good. Sara Watkins, from Nickel Creek (!!), was incredible!
Elvin Bishop and some other yahoo played misogynistic blues songs that objectified women and talked about them like animals = not cool, old timer! Garrison seemed to be cut from the same cloth at times, especially with his casting of many of the women (including Sara Watkins!) as aloof bimbos.
Most of the show was great, and the company was even better. It’s fun to have such generous friends.
Sunday morning I drove over to Bloomfield, IA for Tiffany Austin’s ordination. It was a good event where I saw many friends I’ve missed since living here in Chicago. Tiff is a friend who went to TCU and stayed there for seminary at Brite. She plans to stay in TX to do youth ministry at First Christian Church in Granbury, TX.
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