Wisconsin trip

In June we took a weekend trip to Madison, Wisconsin for a lacrosse tournament.  Kay's team,  St. Louis Elite, did respectably on this trip playing against some really good teams from across the midwest. They even received the Sportsmanship award.  I guess in lacrosse that means you didn't try to tomahawk a girl's shins or whack her in the face.  St. Louis has a budding lacrosse scene.  Kay learned to play lacrosse in CYC- we are lucky at St. Margaret's to have a great girls lacrosse coach, one of just 6 parishes to even have lacrosse as a CYC sport.  

Added bonus on the Madison trip- saw my childhood BFF for dinner, Gus got a hair cut at the Great Clips in Fitchburg and I saw this Red Apple Enterprises mansard on the road.

Bad mansard, good beer

This has been a summer of many road trips. On my work trip to Wisconsin we went to a lovely town, Stevens Point. "Point", as the locals call it, has three industries: education (there is a U of Wisconsin campus there), insurance (why I was there) and beer. Did you know that Schlafly here in in St. Louis bottles most of its beer in Point? I enjoyed a Spotted Cow, which really isn't a Point brewed beer but very good Wisconsin craft beer. The mansard speaks for itself.

Cinq etats!

Yes, badmansard now features the flattest rooflines from 5 states (MO, ARK, IL, WI and CA)!  My dear friend Erika recently visited from Madison, Wisconsin.  She brought with her some wonderful artisanal cheeses and this photograph of a mansard on Madison's west side.  

This mansard is quite pleasing to me.  I like the green and the alternating square/oval pattern on the roof.  

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