College football - University of Michigan college football - is an underlying tone on this blog that reaches a crescendo in the fall, as the Wolverines make their nearly annual run for the Big Ten title. This weekend, two months from any determination of that prize, all of Ann Arbor and the oft-referenced Wolverine nation are at a crescendo after varsity's pounding of Notre Dame. It's one of those things where the goals and aspirations of a team are solidified and announced in one emphatic afternoon. Folks at home were happy to see it and I'm eager to hear the Big House when the team takes the field for Wisconsin on Saturday.
We weren't totally focused on the game Saturday, but in Kalamazoo for NSRA's Street Rod Nationals North, a car show featuring some 2,800+ highly customized rides from 1949 and early. Ghost flames, mag wheels, tribal paint, and big chrome engines were everywhere as we wandered. It was quite a spectacle - no two cars alike and nobody would have it any other way.
After K-zoo and dinner at Damon's we returned to A2 for a little post-day celebration. Our fun was doubled with the news that Caroline & Brad were engaged Friday and their joining us at b-dubs for a few hours' revelry.
Monday, September 18, 2006