Blues Barbeque and Beer

The Millstream Brewery had their first event which included the ingredients listed in the title of this post. It appears it is a winning recipe and I suspect it won't be the last. They had L&J BBQ from Tiffin putting out the food and then Charlie Morgan and the Bone Crushers provided the tunes. There was dancing in the streets. I encourage you to go to their website for info on future events.

The Millstream Brewery is Iowa's oldest micro brewery (Founded in 1985) and we are fortunate to have it in our home town. Teresa and Chris and the rest of the crew crank out several different flavors of beer and also root beer and creme soda.

Fran and Wayne had ants in their pants so we suggested that this might be a good alternative from their home bar. They underestimated the commute from their home to Amana or decided to gawk at the flood damage along the way and their arrival for the event had us showing up when some of the partiers were already heading home. Favorite son, John was their co-pilot and perhaps the architect to this scheme.


This event started at 11:00 am....you can't drink beer all day unless you start in the morning.

We spoke with some of the regulars at the "Amana Stammtisch" and it appears that they were there for the opening ceremonies and only left the table for necessary bathroom breaks. I still think "Depends" has a place at an event like this.

Flood 2008

We had a major flood in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. I have not been to Iowa City for any first hand views of the damage, but I have been to CR (thats what the locals call Cedar Rapids) several times after the flood.

I have not had a post for a long time, mainly because I have been busy with the Schatzi project and general summer things.

I wasn't going to write about the Flood because when you are here you are inundated with major media coverage almost 24/7. But then I realized that a lot of my bloggies are not from here as demonstrated by my Stats Tracker software. Some of my faithful readers are from Bombay, India...most likely they stumbled upon my blog by searching the word Bombay..which was the poison offered up by Dr. O and her gracious assistant. A lot of my bloggies are from Florida, my second residence. I have readers from Switzerland, Landskrona Sweden, Sydney Australia, London England, and Tanzania in Africa.





Since they may not have seen all of the news accounts, I am posting some pics at this time. Most of the pics are from the aftermath and were taken as recently as yesterday. One of the twin towers surrounded by water is our condo in CR.

I will post more pictures soon.


P.S. Billy is afloat.