Well, Keads and I snuck out and took a training course with Bill this weekend…
Money was turned into smoke, noise and knowledge and a fun time was had by all…
Keads needs a haircut…
And I did my normal screw up, dropped one round…
10x double taps, and I did this not once but TWICE!!!
But I met the qual, so I guess I’ll take that and be happy. Bill did an excellent job of instructing, and there was a lot of back and forth between the four of us students. Well worth the $$, and the time!
And then Bill took us out for a ‘good’ dinner… First we went to Norway, and took a left, went to the middle of nowhere and took a right, and ended up in Amana. Yes ‘that’ Amana…
And that was WITH the shortcuts…
The Amana Colonies were founded 150 years ago, are a National Historic Landmark and are visited by people from all over the United States.
Originally, all land and buildings were owned by the community. Families were assigned living quarters, and each person over school age worked at assigned tasks in the kitchens, fields, factories or shops. In 1932, the people voted to end the communal way of life. Today, many of the businesses in the Amana Colonies are independently owned and operated.
We ate at the Ox Yoke Inn, a German restaurant and man, it was GOOD (scratch the damn diet again)!!!
I’ve got a couple of videos, but with the bandwidth at the hotel, I’ll wait till I get home to put them up…
Tomorrow it’s back to the grind…
For all y’all that didn’t grow up out where folks actually drive more than ten miles a day, it was about an hour there, and an hour back. So a ‘shortish’ drive to dinner… 🙂








