farmagedeon

I recently found out that in Kansas, the match-up between rival teams of K-State and KU,
is called: "farmagedon".  Oddly enough I discovered this when talking with a gov't employee
on the phone about health insurance! 

PA bests IA in dairy-art work

Thank you once again, NPR for enlightening me:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/11/169085074/this-butter-sculpture-could-power-a-farm-for-3-days

Penn, specifically the farm show in Harrisburg, boasts an impressive 1000 lb butter sculpture...
outdoing the Iowa state fair! 

And what's more...taking recycling/reuse to a new level, the entire 1000 piece dairy-art will now be converted into methane gas which will then be used to power a farm. 
 I'll omit the part about the pit covered in cow manure...

New butter sculptures

Exciting news... in addition to the plethora of deeply-fried foods, there will be some
new dairy-themed artwork at the state fair.
The feature-butter sculpture this year will be celebrating the iconic Field of Dreams movie.
And because I can't make this stuff up:
"The butter sculptures will feature elements from America's favorite past-time of baseball and the rural Iowa landscape, all in butter"

more connections...

I just noticed an upcoming exhibit at the Des Moines art center:
jointly organized with none other than the Warhol Museum!!!!!!!

http://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/Halston-and-Warhol.aspx

Who wants to come to Iowa this fall for a visit?

talk about the weather

Tornado siren alert #2 this summer... 1:30 a.m. last night.

More thunderstorms predicted for rest of this week.

I always feel like...somebody's watching me...

When I was getting gas today, imagine my surprise when I after I had finished pumping the gas, I
heard out of nowhere, a disembodied voice saying, "driver at pump 2, with the Toyota"... At first I thought there might be some problem but no, the "voice" just told me to have a good day.  I managed to mumble an "okay, uh thanks" to which the "voice" responded "You're welcome".  I think I'd almost
rather they go back to having annoying music piped in while you're pumping gas, than conversing
with this mystery voice.

The Pittsburgh diaspora continues...

Today on our bike ride, we stopped to investigate a movie theater (tucked back off the main road) that
is just a few blocks away.   There were just a few cars in the parking lot.  Of course, I noticed the one
which had Steelers license plate frames AND Steelers seat covers in the front seats!  This makes 2
cars that I have noticed (one was another tenant in the former apartment bldg) with Steelers decor +
my friend Ron, who is a native Pittsburgher, even though he has lived here at least 30 yrs or so!  He still  was happy to display his Steelers watch to me the first time (and possibly subsequent times) that we met!
Also, why are people just hanging around in their cars in the movie theater parking lot, including one person eating pizza in her car?  Are they waiting for a movie to start?  Are they picking someone up who works there?  Are they movie theater lurkers?  All so mysterious.