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Babooners Out and About

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Weekends just after Labor Day are the best. Let’s extend the school year, work until the Fourth of July and take the September off instead!

Some of our regulars have revealed their weekend plans.

Barb in Blackhoof mentioned the 17th Annual Harvest Festival and Energy Fair at Bayfront Park in Duluth. It’s a Saturday-only event with speakers on topics like the inevitable transition away from fossil fuels, workshops on composting and getting toxins out of your home, a farmer’s market and music.

The Renaissance Festival is underway in Shakopee. The theme this weekend – Ale Festival! There will be beer tastings. And your dog is welcome to come along.

I know for certain that Krista in Waterville and Mike Pengra will enjoy the Rock Bend Folk Festival this Saturday and Sunday. It’s in the center of the city of St. Peter and is completely free. Enjoy sunny skies (that’s the forecast) and good company in Minnesota Square Park and fine music on two stages, but leave your dog at home.

The line-up includes City Mouse at 4 on Saturday, and Crooked Still at 3:45 on Sunday. Here’s Crooked Still with an energetic version of an old song about a cabin boy who was betrayed – The Golden Vanity.

What did I miss? Will any other weekend events have a baboon in the crowd?

34 thoughts on “Babooners Out and About”

  1. Rise and Shine Babooners!

    There is 3/4″ of rain in the rain gauge on my deck. We actually were needing the rain after all the wind. Sadly, my heirloom geraniums in a very heavy pot were blown off the deck Wednesday by the high gusts. I scooped them up and jammed them into another pot, but they are turning yellow now. Trimming them down and repotting them is in my future. I’ll call that a geranium funeral. First my great grandma, my grandma, then my mother, then many from my generation have kept these going since Mother’s Day in the 1940’s when Grandma gave the first one to her mother as a gift.

    Hey, you forgot the wildly popular Jordan Heimetfest where we will be later today! We are attending a potluck at an art studio there. We might hit the beer garden, too.
    This afternoon we have a neighborhood good-bye gathering for our elderly neighbors who have moved to a senior housing apartment. They lived in the house across the street for 37 years. And they sold their house in August when the housing market was in such a slump.

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  2. Jacque, those heirloom geraniums sound so wonderful – may they live to grow another year!

    As mentioned above, the Rockbend Folk Festiveal is where we’re headed this afternoon. Glad to know Mike will be there, too, will watch for him and of course look up Krista. It’s supposed to warm up… Have a great weekend, Babooners!

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    1. got to see city mouse and mike and kristas band too as well as her mc skills.
      what a nice get together, the vibes are wonderful. its fun meeting the bloggers out there in real life. mike said they were recording the festival so they can play some of it on mpr. he can que it up during radio heartland.

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  3. Daughter is in an overtired hyper place having had a friend for a sleepover last night, so I think we will try to do quiet, low-energy things today. If I can finagle it, there is a nap in her future (though that may not fly since she’s in first grade and hasn’t napped regularly for a loooooong time).

    Tomorrow there is a birthday party in the middle of the afternoon, so planning has to revolve around those two hours. Maybe I’ll take that opportunity to fix the dripping bathroom faucet (the first trip to the hardware store did not yield the needed part, so I need to try a different store).

    Sorry to hear about the geraniums Jacque – sounds like a well loved piece of family history.

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    1. An addendum: they had the cutest little baby goats for sale when I went to pick up my CSA share. Who was I to say no? He’s (she’s?) a cute little thing – mostly white with some black on the hooves, head and muzzle. Nice horns and a sweet little bit of chin hairs. Doesn’t eat a thing and is quiet as a church mouse. Seems to enjoy just hanging around the house, no need for exercise or climbing. (And made of metal.)

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  4. Last night was Homecoming and dearest daughter was on a sleepover after the dance. I hope to have a quiet day of peaceful housecleaning. Daughter will be cleaning, too, although she doesn’t know it yet. If I were going out and about, I could choose between Good Ol’ Taylor Days in Taylor or the United Tribes Pow Wow in Bismarck. I think I missed the Hebron Fall Festival last weekend. It’s finally sunny here after a week of the strangest September weather. Those geraniums sound wonderful. I hope your transplant works well, Jacque.

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  5. Thanks to all for geranium sympathy. I wish we could post pictures here because they have the most beautiful dark red, double blossom. I have another pot of them. If these die I can propogate those. With so many cousins (34 living) I can get a slip from somebody else if needed. I just hate to see them treated so badly by the wind. And to blow that heavy pot off took a strong gust. Mother Nature is so unpredictable. She must have PMS.

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  6. Still in lurkitude here, trying to cross things off the list that must get done this week-am enjoying reading along, but cannot get the necessary mental muscle together to contribute-probably just as well.

    Jacque, I bet those geraniums make a comeback somehow-about the only thing that has done in any of mine is a hard frost, and I have subjected them to all sorts of neglect. Good luck!

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  7. Greetings! Today is a day of karate and hard training to prepare for the big day next Saturday. On Sat, 9/18 at 10:00am at the Minneapolis Convention Center, you are welcome to watch my fellow students and me graduate to my Advanced Brown Belt. It goes for 2 hours of exciting karate curriculum, forms and sparring. Open and free to everyone! At 12:30pm, the Black Belts and advanced degrees have their graduation, which is really exciting, too.

    I would be thrilled and honored if any of you decided to attend. Have a wonderful day!

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  8. The new grain bin was dissembled at the neighbor’s and is being put back together at the farm. I offered to fill in for my friend and feed her husband the farmer and the helpers with wrenches.I was told there would be 5 plus Roger and his 2 boys. I spent the morning making Sloppy Joes, cabbage salad, and cookies. I got a call saying they would arrive in 10 minutes and there were 10 of them plus Roger and his boys. With only 10 minutes there was time for neither panic nor supplementary food. In a miracle akin to the loaves and fishes-2 lbs of hamburger made 20 Sloppy Joes. They were devoured and the crew left happy. Instead of being out and about I spent the afternoon cleaning up after the team.

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  9. Good Evening to All,

    This is a very late time to comment, but I had to get going early to help with an event for our local Sustainable Farming Assoc. chapter, the S. Central Cha[pter and I am also getting ready to go on vacation on Monday. I probably will not be doing much or any commenting while on vacation, but might do some if I can connect my lap top to the internet while away. If I can’t connect I will look forward to participating in Trail Baboon when I get back.

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  10. Just completed the St. Paul Bike Classic 30-mile tour. The weather is glorious (Sunday) and the participation is at a record level. A great event with wonderful volunteers! Now time to work, big presentation due by Wed. afternoon when Peter gets on a plane to Austin, TX…

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    2. Congratulations, June. Thirty miles seems like a long way to go, but as Barbara already said, you got the perfect day for it. I hope being physically exhausted helped you finish that presentation!

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      1. We finished and Peter is in Austin for presentation Thursday/Friday – whew! What an ordeal. I need a break from PowerPoint, augghhhh!

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  11. Well, nobody will read this because it is Sunday night already, but I just had to say that this weekend was Defeat of Jesse James Days in Northfield so my friend and I went to many of the festivities. I must say, however, that the music here in Northfield this weekend was not nearly as good as Rock Bend was last year when we went to see Harry Manx. Couldn’t go to hear Crooked Still because my bluegrass band had a gig this afternoon. Just got home. Nice weekend.

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