This will be pretty short tonight since we are both pretty tired. It was a hot day and most of it was spent outside at the tractor show. We started out with a fun visit to the Spam museum in Austin, MN. They have a pretty good sense of humor about themselves and have created a very nice museum the goes over the history of Hormel and their infamous product Spam. It is very well done and they have a large gift shop where you can get just about anything you could think of with a Spam logo. They even sell Spam! We picked up two cans of the pepper Spam that is only sold at the museum store. They had passed around samples and it was very good!
You Mid-westerners will recognize our next stop. I had a tenderloin sandwich and Barbara had a butter burger. We shared a frozen custard.
Fully stuffed, we then went out and walked in the hot sun for the rest of the afternoon at the tractor show. I enjoyed the antique farm machinery and small engines. There were a number of antique cars, and of those, I like the 1903 Oldsmobile the best.
My mother’s father was and Oldsmobile dealer so I have a soft spot for the company. Thankfully I found a root beer float around four.
Speaking of old cars, brother Bob just sent me this shot. He plays bass in a California big band and they just had a gig at a great hot rod show in northern California. That is Bob (with the beard) in front on the right.
The Bissen family had a party over at Jimmy’s so about a hundred of us headed over there. (It is a big family don’t you know) After brats and beer a bunch of us returned to the tractor show for the tractor pull competition. The Bissen’s are big at this and took home a lot of trophies. It was not just the guys, either. Jordon Bissen came in first in her class.
Barbara took most of the pictures today and she will get them in the gallery soon. She just had more sense and went to bed instead of fooling with them tonight.
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