July 14 Hayward,wisconsin

Today dawned cloudy and spitting rain, cool 60 degrees and the wind was blowing. I spent the morning doing some chores and balancing the checkbook.Early afternoon it was still raining and it was time to go to the lumberjack show. The literature said rain or shine, but I just knew that I would be the only idiot there. Surprise,when I got to the arena, the stands were about 3/4 full in the covered section. By show time the stands were full in spite of a light rain and cool weather. It was a good show. Yhe pics dont do it justice because of the jokes and things that i could't get.
no.1 is the end of the show (note the blue shirts from getting wet.-coolday about 61 degrees and light wind. rain had stopped.) no.2 is a pole climbing race. No 3 is a canoe fight. No.4 ,5, AND 6 ARE a log rolling untilone gets spilled three times.NO. 7,8,and 9 are more of the canoe fight . No, 10,11,12,and 13 are of a race accross the pond on logs that are floating free. No. 14,15, and 16 are race to run out on limber pole and get a stick. first one done won.-lots of falling in. no 17 and 18 are of kids sawing logs. This was a cute stunt, While there was an intermission, they invited the kids in the audienced to come down and take turns sawing logs. After the sawed, each was given cut off piece of log as a souviner. no. 19, 20,and 21 are of a pole climbing race at the beginning of the show. No, 22 is a comedy act about swing a rebbit from a log. The end of the act was a little chair that they gave to a little girl in the audience.
No.23 is of a limber pole stand chopping race. nop.24 is a log sawing as part ofs a team race. no.25 and 26 is a log rolling part of the race. No, 27,28, and 29 are of an ax throwing contest.no.30 and 31 are a log chopping race at the start of the show.
It was a good family show that had something everyone could enjoy. Good clean fun.
Interesting side light. There was an amish family sitting in the row ahead of me. Mom and dad two little boys, and a little girl togather and on down the row were three boys and another girl ( teenage)that was part of the family. The girl apparently had a thing for one of the boys because he was sitting in the row back of me at the beginning of the show and she kept motioning for him to comedown and sit next to her. There were two boys and a mother sitting next to me playing with their cell phones. The little amish girl was about the same age as one of the boys, and she kept sneaking a peak at him playing with the cell phone. I think she was envious. Anyhow at the end of the show she wispered to her miother and apparently ask if she could go down to the stage with all the other children when they were invited after the show to come get sawed pieces of log as souviners. Dad must have ssaid yesbecause she ran down.
Good show i enjoyed it.
Tomorrow is moving day again to YOGI BEAR JELLYSTONE PARK at FREMONT. From there i can go to Greenbay and Oshkosh and Appleton. Also because I am staying four nights I have a free one. I may use it to regroup and clean up for the final turn to South Dakota and then home.
Later