Beefy Dazes 9/28
Out the window the sugar maples are now a blaze of bright red, the poplars are yellow and the birch trees are a deep gold, throw in the brown and tans of the oaks with the bright green of the pines and you have nature at it’s best.

All these colors will be on display for five to seven days. It’s our northwoods artist’s pallet. This week and our short summer are the reasons we all put up with seven months of winter and two days of spring.

This splendor is what our area calls Colorama. To go along with it the local merchants cook roast beefs and have a town party this the last weekend of September. The roasts are then all turn in, cut up and at 3 p.m. Saturday people line up to purchase "low" cost heart healthy beef sandwiches.

The smell of charcoal cooking beef fills the town air…. Of course while all the is going on the merchants are out hawking their wares as are the saloon keepers. It’s their way of saying thanks, have a sandwich and by the bye ‘buy some of our fall stock so we don’t have to carry it over till next spring and then have to try and sell it at normal price.’

This will be a special Beefy days as our first grand child gets slammed dunked in a baptism fount on Sunday… So beefy sandwiches and some of the family at home for the weekend, just another weekend in paradise. I know some of you can’t make it up here for Beefarama so I’ll have an extra beefy for you.