All Good Things is a weekly feature on the blog. It started as a one-hour Sunday night radio show on KSTO St. Olaf radio, featuring feel-good music and 10 highlights from the past week. The show, and its current written form, is brought to you by Clara, Second Set of Baby Steps creator, and her radio co-host Cassie.
1. Song of the week: The Wire by HAIM. Girl power band with some serious talent... Plus, the video is great. PLUS, men getting broken up with like women. I really do think we do it right.
2. Bonus song of the week: Red Hands by Walk off the Earth. It's everywhere right now, and hasn't gotten old... At least not yet!
3. Cowboy Monkey Rodeo at the Wilmington Blue Rocks. We already all know how I love the Blue Rocks and minor league, hometown baseball in general... But this took my love to new heights. Hands down, the funniest thing I have seen in months. Legitimately: monkeys dressed in fringe jackets, riding on border collies and herding goats around the field. Priceless. I highly recommend you watch this: http://youtu.be/jGqfQuy14pA
Also, Wilmington was the City That Started It All! Now the Cowboy Monkey Rodeo does shows all over the country.
4. Birthday surprises. A bunch of us gathered at Grotto on Friday for a friend's birthday, and he didn't know we would be there. The look on his face was priceless.
5. Playing it by ear and rolling with the punches. On Friday night I was trying to split my time between two birthday parties, and coordinate with a bunch of different people about who would be where when... And of course nothing went according to plan! But I did get to see and spend time with a lot of different important people. So it all worked out in the end... More or less!
6. Babies! There were babies at the barbecue yesterday. One of them was a rambunctious two-year-old who had us all wrapped around his finger... And then of course there's Jason's niece, who I swear gets cuter every day.
7. Barbecue. We had burgers and dogs every day this weekend. Delicious, of course... But mostly great because it means we're with friends.
8. Beer. Had some homebrew that was good this weekend... Also, pumpkin beer and Oktoberfest season is already starting! Not quite ready for it yet... But I'm definitely getting used to the idea!
9. Caprese salad. The "B" here being fresh basil. I am OBSESSED with caprese salad right now, since Jason grabbed all those local plum tomatoes, and has been nursing his basil plant back to health in its new, much larger pot. It's so delicious, so simple, so light and fresh!
10. Random singing. This is actually a large part of my life in general, but this week it has come up a lot. I'll say this is a sign of good feeling all around, sharing music and laughter with different groups of people, lots of "motor mouth" belting out songs in the car, and "harmonizing" with the radio and with each other.
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