LAKEMOORFEST
SATURDAY-- After some yardwork, I went to nearby Lakemoor, Illinois, for their annual Lakemoorfest. Had a mandatory ear of corn and listened to the hard-rockin' Liberty Teeth band. You had to love the bass player in his kilt. High energy and a lead guitarist who had no idea where the stage was. A bit on the loud side though.
Ran into Jerry, the "Mayor of Tom's Cafe" (he was almost always there when Tom's was open) in Johnsburg. I do that quite often at the area festivals. Several folks were having a pulled pork sandwich which was really tempting, but I knew we were going to go to the Spring Grove Annual Firemen's Steak Fry later.
STEAK AND A POLITICIAN, TOO
Drove over to Horse Fair Park in Spring Grove to support our gallant fire folks and had a great steak dinner, complete with corn picked today donated by Stade Farm, baked potato, cole slaw, roll, pop, and dessert. Couldn't even finish it despite not trying the puled pork in Lakemoor.
Sat with a couple and had a great conversation. He turned out to be one of our District 4 County Board Members, John Hammerand. He agreed that property taxes were ridiculous and says he always votes against tax increases.
Good crowd on hand for the event, and, at $17 a pop for dinner, I'm sure some money was made. Hint, though: Perhaps it would be possible to have two containers for the steaks, one for the more rare and one for the more done. Good steak though.
Wait, Not Finished Yet. --RoadDog
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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