August 21, 2011 Sunday Afternoon

I was very surprised to see I did not post on Friday. I always try to make it the last post before the weekend. Not sure where my head was. Friday afternoon, after lunch with the guys, I took a nap. I knew we had a party to attend Friday night so I thought it best to take a nap. Between the phone ringing, dog next door barking, and the tenants coming home from work early, I did more listening to music than actually taking a nap. Tony came home around 6 PM, right after I had fed the dogs and gave Vito his shot. Barkley is doing much better and is keeping his food down. I think it had to be something he ate in the yard that made him so sick for a week. Went to a party at a friends house who I have known for almost 25 years. Had a great time and didn't get home until about 11 PM, which is late for us. Stayed up about an hour watching TV and then went to bed around midnight.

Saturday morning we were up at 6:30 AM to feed the dogs and give Vito his shot. Barkley got his regular food for the first time in a week. Spent most of the day just laying around the house watching TV. Fed the dogs dinner around 5:30 PM and we were out the door by 6 PM. Met two of the guys we have Friday lunch with at Slinger Speedway in Slinger Wisconsin. It is about a 45 minute drive. There was a once a year event at the track with different stock car races throughout the night. Every heat was a different theme or rules. Did I mention the race track is a figure 8? I have wanted to go to this track for as long as I remember because of the figure eight aspect of the track. Picture stock car races in a figure 8. One of the races was 8 school buses going around the track. By about the 3rd lap they start getting far enough apart to smash or barely miss each other at the middle of the figure eight track. One of the buses got hit so hard it flipped all the way around. The roof was squashed down to the seats. The guy driving was fine. I swear some of these race car drivers have a death wish going through the figure eight at top speed not caring if a car is coming at them or not. In one of the races about 20 cars were in pairs. It was called the push car race. The front car has no gas and has to be pushed around the track by the car in back of it. All in a figure eight. Another race was a pull car race where the cars were in pairs again and the car in front had the gas and pulled a car on a chain around the track as the other cars tried to smash into it. Another race had all front wheel drive cars with fenders on their back tires like water skis on the tires. It was so funny to watch. It was like the cars were racing on ice. The final race each car had to pull a trailer of some kind. Some had parade floats, other had old boats on trailers. The car and trailer last standing wins. By the end of the race the track was littered with debris from the cars and trailers being smashed. All on the figure eight track. Needles to say Tony and I had a great time and didn't get home until close to midnight. As you know this is late for us. Watched a little TV and went to bed.

This morning we were up at 6:30 AM to feed the dogs and give Vito his shot. Started reading the Sunday newspaper after the dogs were fed. Around noon we went to Pewaukee to a bar called Boomers for a car show. It is a nice sports type bar that had it's once a year car show. Walked around the car show and then had a steak sandwich in the bar before heading home. Got home around 3 PM and after watching a little TV Tony started getting frisky so we took it into the bedroom for a half hour. We are now back in the living room with the dogs watching TV again, a Car Repo marathon on Tru TV. Will most likely stay home the rest of the day and watch TV on the DVR tonight. I have a lot building up on the DVR and it has to be getting full. We had a great weekend and the weather was perfect all weekend also. In the mid 70s during the day and low 60s at night. Perfect!