Backyard Bash

We had a great time this past Saturday at the Summit Backyard Bash. It was an outdoor concert event held on the grounds of the Summit Brewery. It featured a lineup of all local bands including Caroline Smith And The Goodnight Sleeps, Halloween Alaska, Now Now and Doomtree. In addition to the music and drink, food was on-site from Dixies, Black Forest Inn, Barrio, Bennett's and more. Since it's not far from our house and weather was nice, we just walked over around 11am.
The setup was very nice. They had a large music tent with standing tables around the edges, plenty of bathrooms and enough space to breathe. Towards the middle of the day, things got pretty busy and the beer lines (yes, the lines for beer at the brewery) got a little long. I'm not sure the attendance number, but Summit had to have done very well.
This was our second time seeing Caroline Smith, who continues to grow on me. Doomtree is great group of very talented individuals, but not really my cup of tea for a live performance. The other bands were nothing to blog about IMO. Anyway, I picked up a Dessa's CD (who is a member of Doomtree) and it's quite good. Thanks to Spotify, I've been listening/tasting more music without investing a bunch of money. I'm hooked.
After brunch to celebrate Angie's Dad's birthday, we cleaned up the tandem bike and took it for a spin. It's actually really fun and worth every cent of the six dollars Angie paid for it a few years ago. We also did a little cleaning upstairs in the old office room, in preparation for painting. We haven't picked an exact color yet, but it's going to be some lighter shade of orange.
Looking forward to Oktoberfest this Friday night at the Gasthaus, the weather says 74 and no rain at this point. Not that rain would stop me from going, but I really don't want my pretzels to get soggy. Saturday we're going to see "Red" at the Park Square Theater. It's the last weekend we have before my mom comes to visit next Monday.