The air is certainly sweeter in Wisconsin. The scent of lilacs, honeysuckle, green grass, and clean forest hangs in the air. The temperature was in the 70's so we have had the car windows down, and each mile gave a different scent. Ok, it's not all bliss -- you can always tell when you're passing a dairy farm!
We drove to Mayville to see my grandparents and other relatives' graves, also the farm where my gramma stayed and worked in the summer. We looked for the house her father built, but didn't find it. Here is a picture of the dammed river that she used to ice-skate on in the winter.
Next, on to Theresa and the best brick cheese at the cheese factory. Brick was named because of the what they used for weights. We bought cheese and summer sausage and a couple of bags of cheese curds that may or may not be gone already. I'll never tell.
This is my mom's old high school in West Bend. It's now the junior high. We saw a bunch of kids with Badger Jr. High Triathlon shirts on. They were all wet. I think they had just completed a triathlon and were still smiling.
This is the old Amity leather factory. I have bought a couple of wallets from the factory store here in the past. Now it is Amity apartments that look pretty run down. Why do they call them apartments when they are so close together?
And here's a lilac bush at the site of my gramma's house. The house (trailer) is gone now, and the ground is very overgrown. She spent three years picking every dandelion flower and crushing it to pieces before ridding her lawn of them completely. They are still gone.
And this is her street. There is pink and yellow honeysuckle growing all down the lane, the trees shade it, and it is so quiet. Perfection, except for the deer flies and horrible mosquitoes.
I've got a class on Tuesday, and the conference on Wednesday-Friday. But we hope to drive to Wisconsin Dells one evening and I've got some geocaches to find as well.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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