It has been a really good weekend. Friday was opening day at the Elkhart County Fair, which we have never been to, but this year the big concert was Barenaked Ladies with Sugar Ray and Fastball. Which sounded awesome so I got tickets for everyone to go. Alex and Missy were really excited about seeing BNL too, but I don’t think they knew anything about the other two. Beth and I were excited about all 3 of them. Natalie decided late in the game that she wouldn’t go, as she didn’t want to be in a big hot noisy crowd and her boyfriend had plans for them that evening anyway. There was a family thing going on, not sure. So since I had an extra ticket I asked a few friends if they’d be interested. Everyone was interested, but the first one who actually could attend was Josh S. I thought he would really appreciate it as he’s a big music lover. We headed to Goshen Friday evening for a 7:00 show, and found out how big the Elkhart fair really is. The parking lot alone is enormous. Better than anything we have in this county. Anyway the concert was great! Start to finish, all 3 bands did a great job and we had a really fun time. I really liked Fastball, more than I even remember liking them before. They have a real rockabilly vibe. And Sugar Ray was just like they used to be back in the day as well, really fun. And BNL did somewhere around 25 songs, all of which were good ones. All the hits and a lot of songs I didn’t know. But really good al the way through. And at the end all 3 bands came together to play “Summer of 69” which was also really rockin’. Great show beginning to end. 

Sunday we all went up to Michigan for an open house for Alex / birthday party for me & Neill. We held it at Judy & Neill’s cottage on the lake, and had snacks (cupcakes, veggies, fruit, chips, etc) for everyone to drop in & out as they could. Pretty much the whole family came out for most of the day, almost all the cousins came to visit. Even Nat and Jacob drove up for a few hours during the party. Ted took everyone out around the lake on the pontoon boat, and we had ice cream cake. Good time, nice to see everyone.

I think I've figured out what's wrong with the lawn tractor. Earlier this week I found what appeared to be a broken fan... the actual fan, all the blades attached to the hub which had the middle broken out. Which jogged my memory a bit (see 5/26/2020) to remember that the same thing happened 5 years ago. I found the replacement fan that I bought at the time in my Amazon records, so I bought another one. Looks like this is just the same thing happening again. So should be an easy fix.