June better go on a diet or buy bigger clothes.

This has always been my favorite month of the year. When I was a kid, it was always promoted with a spirited “June Is Dairy Month” in Wisconsin, with a farm breakfast in most counties, tours of dairy farms and the like. It was great that America’s Dairyland promoted it’s heritage product. Sadly, you don’t hear much about that anymore.

It’s also a busy time of the year, in fact, in our family, June always started in late May. We’ve always been overrun with The Old Man’s birthday, in late May and the previous day is the birthday of someone who was an important part of my life for a long time. It’s also the anniversary of…well, you don’t really want to know about that. But June is also full of anniversaries, graduations, car shows and other big events. If The Old Man were alive, he would have been 97 last week. How can such a young guy have a such an old Old Man?

Forty years ago this month, The Old Man, The Rocket Scientist, our uncle and a favorite cousin, and Your’s Truly, of course, made a pilgrimage to the ultimate shrine of fishermen - at least, a shrine for our family.

More about that in another post to follow.

For now, enjoy the month of June, my favorite month of the year.