Saturday, August 18, 2007

It rained on Matt's birthday pig roast

It rained all day today and it is going to rain all day tomorrow. That is good, but not good for our friend and neighbor Matt Drees, a long-time Shakopee resident with hundreds of relatives and friends around these parts. For the past 20 years he's had a hog roast and golf tournament on this Saturday. One hundred pounds of hog were roasted all right, and tons of salads, breads, slaws and desserts offered today, but there was no golf or horseshoes or sitting on the picnic table outside this year. Everything happened in the garage, in the house or in the machine sheds on Matt and Anne's little farm. Four of Matt's 10 sisters came and sat Matt down for a little teasing and this photograph. If you're a regular at Lion's Tap in Eden Prairie, you might recognize one of the ladies. She's was a manager there for many years.
There's a Powwow tonight at Mystic Lake, and tomorrow the Marystown Festival. Lots to do in the rain if you like that sort of thing.