That first picture is absolutely stunning. That's something about middle USA that I miss. Most of my relatives live in surroundings like that and I always took it for granted when I was there. We have NOTHING like that here... it's all cement and straight angles unless it is some sort of government park or building.

I saw a video about how all MM bottles are hand dipped even though they very well could have automated this process 70 years ago. I like traditions like that.

I had a single-malt last night as my last drink for bowling day. It was a nice deviation from my normal drink of choice but unfortunately it was at a place that only had small ice cubes. That kind of ruins everything.