This was a long day.

It started this morning with my Volunteer Orientation at the Anti-Cruelty Society. That was totally interesting. Now that I’ve done that step, I have to go and get trained on the area in which I will be volunteering (Dog Adopts), and then I can actually start doing the volunteer …

Hank Aaron and Carrie’s grandpa
Originally uploaded by mugsy1274.

Carrie’s dad sent me this picture last week – it’s her late grandfather, Joe Staudacher, with the great Henry Aaron in the dugout at the old Milwaukee County Stadium.

What an amazing bit of baseball history. Well, not …

I have to be downtown until noon on Saturday for an ACS thing, but I’ll be hightailing it to Ribfest right after to catch the last half of the Hoyle Brothers. I think you all should come out too. Because ribs rule and so does honky-tonk. I also will be there later in the evening for Bobby Bare, Jr. …