Dear old golden school days!

Every year, USSF referees have to return to the classroom for a bit of re-education and enlightenment in to the new rules interpretations. Since I had missed the August Advanced School due to Trek World, I ended up in Milton, WI for my class. Having never been to Milton before and after being stupid and not reading the start time for school, I found myself with an hour to kill before class got started, plus I went to the wrong school. Talk about being messed up!

Anyway, with an hour to kill I got a chance to see some of the great architecture in Milton and then saw this artwork created by the snowfall and wind yesterday, here in South Central Wisconsin. Pretty cool to see how the snow was shaped into an awesome awning of sorts.
My guess is that these shapes are now history given the fact that today's temperatures reached the mid 20's, but with lots of sunshine. Mlton is a really neat town and has LOTS of signage for the bike trails that are all over the place. Milton deserves a return vist in the summer time, for sure.



Class started at 9 AM and the good news is that I passed and now have my 2007 badge and retain my Level 7 classification.

The picture below is from beautiful downtown Milton. It is a typical main street in small town America. the Christmas decorations are up and there was even a "cookie walk" in town today, where you could go from house to house and taste, make that eat, cookies! Yummy!


They even do house tours in this great old town. This is small town America at its best, for sure!

And then there is the, "Squeeze Inn."

Milton is known for being the birthplace of a lot of really wonderful people, but for those who follow the NFL, it is home to one, Dave Kreig (sp?). He was a quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks some years back!

I think he would approve.