A Super Saturday with the Verhoffs & Baumgartners

Joan's View

Chester eyeing Tony's breakfast wrap

We got to sleep in even though Carol & Clyde were up early. We could smell the bacon cooking. We were treated to another wonderful breakfast, Carol's tons of fresh fruit and Clyde's special wrap.

Borrowed bling for the farmer's market

Our return from the market

The Verhoff's frequent their nearby farmer's market so we got to go along this Saturday. I asked to borrow another one of Carol's cool hats from her collection. You can see I got to wear the one with bling today. 😁Lots of fresh fruit & veggies at the market although Carol's favorite kombucha vendor was absent today. We bought the very last fresh floral bouquet for the Verhoff's to make their home a little brighter during their upcoming stretch of home reconstruction. Chester, their dog, went along, and we walked back with their 92 year old neighbor, Clarice.

Tony had been working on the Verhoff's to only cut the one big dead limb from their pretty white birch tree in front of their house, so he convinced Clyde into going out for rope to cut it down themselves. Carol & I hung around in case we had to call 911. We also took pictures while the neighbors found their prime viewing seats. Tony held the rope while Clyde made the cuts. The rest is history for that huge section of the birch. You can hear the neighbors cheering in the video after the big crash. Clean up went fast as well. all because Carol & I hung around. We then found seats and took a little time to chill in their driveway.

The view of the Basilica 

from Clyde's parking spot

Our next adventure was mass at the Basilica of St. Josaphat in downtown Milwaukee where the Baumgartners met us. Clyde chose an extremely distant parking spot in the parking lot as a kindness to the little old ladies there. We definitely gave him a hard time about his spacious parking (this will pay off for him later) . Mass was the Verhoff's & Baumgartners first time meeting even though, by some great miracle, they are going to be neighbors in a month only three houses apart. We spent some time after mass in the back of the Basilica just all getting to know each other.

From there, we proceeded to Onesto, an Italian restaurant, which was a first for the Verhoff's eating there as well. Clyde got crazy lucky with a super close parking spot because someone pulled out just as he drove up. The Baumgartner's, unfortunately, had to drive around a while and park city blocks away. Carol claims that this is all part of Clyde's strategy for parking in the city (another laugh) because if he parks far away at church, he gets close spots in the city later. Dinner was lots of laughs and talking. 

We then proceeded across the street to Journeyman for some nightcaps at their trendy rooftop bar. Another first for the Verhoff's too, but especially cool for Carol since all of her brothers are journeymen. We got so lucky to get a comfy corner sofa with a firepit. Perfect weather for the rooftop. We did notice though that we may have been the oldest ones there.

Rooftop with the Baumgartners & Verhoffs

After some more talking by the group near Clyde's premium parking spot, we headed home, albeit a little late to get a blog written that night. Thus, the later blog update happened when we got home.

Just funny