View from Vining, Voting Festivities

There are 47 registered voters in the town of Vining and at 10:30 AM on Nov. 7th I was #10. After picking up the mail at the post office my husband, John, the dog, Allie and I headed over to the Vining Community Center to cast our vote (Allie had to wait outside).

We were met by three of our neighbors Mabel, Addy, and Brian who are the election officials and after following due process got our ballot.

I headed over to the electronic voting machine, while my husband chose to do his by hand. Though voting electronically takes a bit more time, it was a lot more fun. After completing our civic duties Allie and I dropped John off at the church, to go back to work and we headed home, so I could get back to work.

That evening we were on the road to Staples, MN for the annual Election Day Lutefisk and Meatball Supper held at Faith Lutheran Church. Lutefisk, in case you don’t know, is stockfish (air-dried whitefish) prepared in lye. Some people refer to it as a “Scandinavian delicacy.” I am sure many of you who are familiar with lutefisk will find that description rather funny. I do not eat it (even though it was served at every Christmas Eve meal), but my husband does and apparently 700+ others attending the supper that night do as well.Because it has a rather strong odor when being cooked, the good folks at Faith Lutheran decided to fix it in a fish house (how appropriate) behind the church. They will cook 500 lbs. of lutefisk that night; amazing. All-in-all it was a good Voting Day and today I found out that most of those I voted for got elected.