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Picture Tuesday Which Is Now Picture Wednesday

I started this blog on Tuesday. Early Tuesday. Long story.

OK, now that I'm all recovered from Weekend on the Road, let's look at some visuals of my little jaunt in what will be known this week only as Picture Tuesday. No, make that Picture Tuesday Which Is Now Picture Wednesday.

We did Oktoberfest Thursday. We did Oktoberfest Friday. We did Oktoberfest Saturday. And on Sunday, we did Rocktoberfest! Woooo!

We started down I-81 to Winchester at about 9:30. No, wait, I'm already telling a lie. I guess we started up I-81 to Winchester. It's north, you know. Mr M drove, I passengered, Sherman was in his car seat, and Mr P took a look at the lovely scenery.


We arrived in Winchester and found the Rocktoberfest site. Now, I must tell you, I was expecting a speedway, or a football field, or, oh, let me just go ahead and say it. I was expecting Woodstock.

When we reached our final destination, it turned out to be in the middle of the city, in - a bank parking lot. So instead of 100,000 hippie rock fans freaking out on the brown acid, our crowd ended up looking just a little bit like this. Well, exactly like this, actually.


Not quite breakfast for 100,000, or whatever it was Wavy Gravy said all those years ago. But what the hell. We played, we had fun, the crowd was semi-enthusiastic, the Sauerkraut Band was very enthusiastic, the beer was free, we got free T-shirts from the organizers of the event, and, in a stunning surprise event, I discovered my new favorite band of all time.

Move over, Squeeze, out of the way, REM, Beatles - well, you can stay right there, I'll never abandon you. But all of you need to make way for these guys, The Hackensaw Boys.


They're bluegrass, they're old-time, they're jugband, they're rock, they're punk, they're funk, they're everything you want in a band, they'll change your life. I promise. I have their entire catalog winging its way to me as we speak via Amazon. I can't wait. I danced to them in Winchester, and now I'll be able to dance to them in the privacy of my own home, where I can be a lot geekier and therefore have double the fun.

Then after a final set from your humble Sauerkraut Band, this one a little more beer-fueled, it was time to pack up the equipment and head home, with a dinner stop on the way. We all went, in lederhosen and dirndls, to Edelweiss, a German restaurant. Oh, boy! More German Food! But it was fun, and a nice way to end the evening.

And I got home by midnight, so that wasn't bad at all.

Now, there will be no recipe du jour for this Picture Tuesday Which Is Now Picture Wednesday. I just don't have the stamina. In case you're wondering about all the delays, either Blogger is broken or it has changed it picture uploading feature. Not a good change, either. I went all hinky over it, drove Mr M offline, and finally, of course, Maven Stenns came to the rescue. But placing the pictures was a long process and I'm ending it here.

Happy rest of the week.

Betland's Olympic Update:
* See how much I love yall? I kept at it all this time so I could post acrowinners. Let's get to my Spam Comments.
- Honorable Mention goes to DeepFatFriar, with his ingenious "Qatar Ichabob crasy resolute Zanzibar rollickingly." Yep, I get those too, Friar.
- Runner-Up goes to LilyG, with her "Queenly in capaciousness? Reduce! Zero roundness!"
- And this week's Winner goes to Kellie, with her "Quaking? Impotent? Cialis Restores. Zap Rhonda." I'm betting Rhonda really hopes they don't take up the offer.
- And as this week's winner, Kellie gets a case of Cialis sent to her home or office.
- Thanks to all who played!