Summer Tradition

Sunday afternoon we met Daughter #1 and Little Miss at Glen Oak Park for a picnic (Bob was sick).  It was pleasant eating in the shade, but then we spent 45 minutes chasing Little Miss around the playgrounds.  It seems she has a fetish for wearing shoes that other children took off so they could play barefooted.  We then set up our lawn chairs in the amphitheater for the Peoria Municipal Band Concert.  There were dancers in Civil War era costumes demonstrating period dancing on a few pieces.  Little Miss wanted to join them.  Good music under a clear sky on a warm summer evening.

 Americana.

Jodi S. plays sax in the band, so I got to chat with her during intermission.
We stopped for DQ on the way home.

Our early corn is tasseling.  I say early even though it was planted two weeks later than normal.  It is behind, but it is starting to look good after its wet, slow start.

The July/August issue of The Atlantic has a very interesting article on processed food and obesity.  You can find it here.  It is very long, but worth the read.

It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
2 Chronicles 5:13