Back from Austin, MN

The pix I have attached above include:
- Dinner with the 6 members of the Brogan family
- A crop duster heading toward us. They certainly look manuverable. I call this picture the last thing an agricultural pest sees.
- Posing with Karen and Kris at the Spam Museum in Austin.
- Me showing dramatic form while playing frisbee golf.

We got back from a nice trip to Austin, MN, this afternoon. Peoria got smacked with bad weather AGAIN while we were out. The thunderstorm that hit this morning knocked out power throughout the area. Summer classes were cancelled on campus today because of the outages. The only rain we experienced on our trip was a little drizzle and thunder yesterday morning.

We have come up with terminology to describe the rather subdued agricultural topography of the Midwest, based on the more dramatic topography of the Southwest:

-"cornyon" - combination of "corn" and "canyon", comprised of walls of cornstalks on either side of a narrow stetch of land like a road

-"bornch" - combination of "corn", "beans", "bench", and "beach", describing a field of beans lapping up against a wall of corn

-"treesa" - combination of "trees" and "mesa", a group of trees standing up out of the surrounding fields of corn and beans

OK, the terms were little corny...

Trivia: For curiosity's sake we wrote down the numbers of different car colors going in the opposite direction for the 20 minute we went along I-280 around the Quad Cities on Saturday morning. The colors were sometimes had to classify, but this is roughly what we got:

brown/tan - 31

red - 49

orange - 1

yellow - 1

green - 16

blue - 38

purple - 0

black - 32

gray - 62

white - 49