If you need to get in touch with someone here, it would probably be a good idea to call, rather than email. If you're up early, you might as well get in a little excruciating exertion. That means you can pull up a lawn chair, pop open a malted beverage, and watch the runners go by. Oops, don't get too comfortable. The UW Arboretum is having Volunteer Work Day to remove garlic mustard and other invasive plants from the Grady Tract Savanna, from 8 am to 1 pm.
Tours begin on the hour, followed by a half-hour work session.
Take a stroll, then bend down and pull. And at 1, the Arboretum offers a 90-minute guided tour of Noe Woods, leaving from west the Curtis Prairie parking lot. Poetry, they say, is an elemental form of expression, and it comes as easily to children as it does to adults, maybe easier. And The World's Largest Brat Fest continues from 10 am to 6 pm at Hilldale. The Nob Hill Boys bluegrass band follow Schwall at 10 pm.