Saturday, June 30, 2007

Tasty Minnesota

The geezer gang and I played two hours of tennis at Marie Park at 8:30 this morning. Not much of note to report except that I was having a bad day at the office. It has passed and by tomorrow I won't remember it at all.

The only biking on this the last day of June was an evening meander down to the Mississippi to see if I could see and hear the Taste of Minnesota (ToMn) festivities on Harriet Island. I got fairly close on my side of the river before I ran into the inevitable "Path Closed" sign near Upper Landing Park. I'm not sure why they close the biking and pedestrian paths across the river from Harriet Island, but they do it every year for ToMn. The ToMn is a big pigout for Minnesotans. A lot of restaurants have booths to sell their wares in a sort of prelude to the State Fair - and then they have fireworks. It lasts until the Fourth of July or about six days. So I took a picture across the Mighty Miss and meandered home.


The backyard tomatoes haven't made an appearance in this blog in nine days. They are growing quite fast and little tiny green fruit have appeared. And the zucchini is going to soon block out the sun. I look forward to eating luscious, red, locally grown "love apples" - as tomatoes were once called - and pretty soon.


And some scanner fun from about 1971. It is the Tousan with his competition orange Fiat in the driveway of the Santini residence in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Santini children were the small loud ones (SLOs) of their time. Once again: tempus fugit.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the photos -- I do know where my copies of these are, oddly enough. I had forgotten that we had that red Chevy when we lived there -- I think we still had it when we moved to DeKalb.

Sounds like a nice mellow ride. SS

Anonymous said...

I think it is a little earlier than 1971 -- but you're close. I think the SLO's are younger than that. '65 and '67 birth dates. SS

Gino said...

The real SLOs. I am uncertain of the date but I do know I was in the Army. I missed that particular stage of their lives. What was the babysitter's name again?

Santini said...

Which babysitter? The OSLO's (Original SLO's) occasionally had the teenage girl next door for a sitter. Her name was Myra.

Jimi said...

Could it have been 1970? That was the year I worked in New York and Detroit, and I may have driven to Ft Wayne from Detroit in the summer that year. The OSLO's would have been 5 and 3 that year.

The young lady pictured in the photo is not the babysitter.

Santini said...

1970 sounds closer. I think you were living in Detroit and had come for a visit. I know where the album is with my copies of these photos -- I'll try to remember to check and see if the year is written somewhere. SS

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