Every year as our annual show at Schells Brewing Company gets closer we always get nervous
watching the weather. This year was no exception. About a week ahead of the show date the
extended forecast on the Internet was looking fantastic they were calling for clear skies and 70°.
As the date grew closer the weather forecast
continued to get more dismal. We woke up Sunday
morning with the car packed and the kids loaded and
headed off for New Ulm and about the
time we got to
Northbound
Swea City, just south of the Minnesota border we were
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&
driving in rain. We drove through rain
until we got
almost Madelia when it stopped. TheSmokehouse
skies remained
cloudy and we began to set up at the brewery. We put
the Easy Up shelter up and started setting up the
chapter merchandise table. We had a little bit of rain
right at the beginning around 8 o'clock till about 9
a.m. It didn't last long and pretty soon the skies
began to clear. What a blessing that was. The
Breweriana was coming out of the trunks and the
back of pickups and some nice things Northbound
were changing hands.
We had a&couple
of guys come all
Brewery
Smokehouse
the way from Milwaukee again this year and one of them scored a nice red Hauenstein tray. And
I know there was plenty of other things that got sold and exchanged and a lot of happy people.
Unfortunately whenever skies are cloudy and the
weather forecast looks a little iffy a lot of people
tend to stay home because they think it's going to
rain and they're going to get wet. A number of
times in recent years though where we've had bad
weather it's actually cleared off and just like this
past show turned out to be a really nice day. I
would recommend in the future that if you are
planning on attending you would come to the
show no matter what, because first off your at the
most beautiful brewery in the world how could
that not be fun in and of itself and secondly a lot
of times the weather can change in turns out to be
nice when it didn't look so good in the morning.
Anyway back to the show we had a really nice lunch a good little raffle and we auctioned off
another cool item that David Vorwerk made for
the club. I personally didn't really find anything at
the show this year, but like I said I had a great
time enjoyed a few Schells beers got to see all of
my friends and spend a day at the Schells
Brewing Company so it was a win-win no matter
what. After the show we loaded up the car packed
in
the kids and had a nice drive back to Algona.
Tom T. #28855
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