It has been a quiet week in my hometown

It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown. It is the end of summer, the Olympics are drawing to a close, and all the regulars at the Side-Track Tap have been watching Women's Beach Volleyball on the new wide-screen television down there. The owner thought that it would bring in more revenue, but the result is just the opposite: the clients get so involved in watching muscular, sweating, half-naked women bounce around in the sand that they forget to drink. So that plan really wasn't working. The band students at Lake Wobegon High School have been out marching, getting ready for the football season, sweating and marching in the late August sun and humidity. The football team that went 1 and 10 last season is practicing as well, and hopes are high that they might have a five hundred season. I guess we'll see. Father Emile just got back from his trip to Rome, and his parishioners at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility threw a welcome home party in the church basement. Pastor Ingqvist, from the Lake Wobegon Lutheran church, made the initial toast welcoming Father Emile back. They will be performing a "mixed" wedding in a couple of weeks at the Lutheran church. The whole town is invited and it seems like that Bunsen girl who lives in L.A. is finally going to tie the knot. The Sons of Knute are making initial preparations for duck hunting season, but nothing as elaborate as the decoy fiasco from a number of years ago. The Whippets baseball is still a game out of first place in the Central Minnesota division, and they lost last night to that powerhouse, the Dundas Dogs. The corn is tall and green yet, but everyone knows that fall, the start of school, and harvest are just a question of weeks at this point, and many people are wondering about where they left the snow shovel, their gloves, and the bucket of sand that goes in the trunk. The Lake Wobegon municipal pool will close on Sept 1, Labor Day