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Today is the day for the NFL Draft to kick off.  Compare this photo of Draft Town with Tuesday's and you'll see the closed up the big tent in the middle and they've added a bunch of accessory structures around the place. Cool stuff for Chicago.

My oldest couldn't be more proud of her painting that is hanging up in the local coffee shop in town as part of a gallery/collection of kids art.  We made a special trip to the coffee shop just so she could show it to me.  I'm so impressed with her and her willingness to be an artist.  Something I could never quite do when I was younger.

They have much of the structures set up and are wrapping them with the white tarps this morning.   Here's where they were just a few days ago .

Yesterday we spent the afternoon at Nat's folks' house with the kids.  While we were there, my mother-in-law showed us this super weird tomato.  She put it on the ledge above her sink in her kitchen in the sun and mostly forgot about it.  At some point, some weird stuff started happening and the seeds *inside* the tomato started to sprout and grow INSIDE the tomato.   I thought it was pretty interesting, so I posted it to r/mildlyinteresting using a throw-away account .  If you're of of *those* folks, make sure you give it an upvote !

The box my shoes came in claims to be 'reversible'.  Interesting idea, isn't it?  Take a shoe box that you'd normally throw away and turn it into something that you'd want to reuse to store things? I'll put it through it's paces this week and see how the box turns out - inside-out.

The second pack ( after last week's Apollo Ring variety I posted about ) is this Mammoth sunflower.  This one will tower (12 feet tall!) over the rest of them and I'll plan on putting the seeds in the far back row against the fenceline.  I think a few more weeks need to pass and then we'll get them in the ground.

Just west of Buckingham Fountain you can start to see the tents going up for the NFL's DraftTown.  They've shut down the street and it appears they're just going to take the whole place over with a series of tents/structures.  Kinda neat. Here's the sketch they have on NFL.com of the final product :