It started yesterday
July 1, 2006 (5:02 am)
60º F, Cloudy, S wind 6 mph.
Good morning,
It started yesterday afternoon - the annual 4th of July rush of city dudes heading north on vacation. This year since the 4th is on Tuesday, there are a lot of folks making it a bit of a longer vacation. Actually we are on the way to up north, and the main highways are through Green Bay, we don’t see that much disruption here. That’s not to say there is an increase of folks in the area. Apparently there also are a lot of folks not making long trips this year thanx to the high fuel prices, resulting in almost all products also being higher priced. Actually the harbor slips are still not filled with boats and there is an increase of "travel trailers" and motor homes parked in the area camping facilities this year rather than being transit. I know we are making short trips this year rather than an extended one.
The other day, the light bulb in the oven burned out, so we went to Green Bay yesterday to get a new one. Some other things too. The upshot of the deal is we "forgot" to get a new one and will need to return on Wednesday to get it - along with the socket and the oven around it. We looked at a couple of stores for new ranges and came to the conclusion we would but the range we saw at the first store a few weeks ago! Prices have really increased on the new ranges from the time I had the store. But I really expected that. What used to be the price on a full featured range is not the low end price. The range we are replacing is 30 years old which I sold to Mom when it was new, fairly well featured. The new one will cost the a bit more than I sold the old one for, only without most of the features. Should be one less excuse for not having perfect bread!
We actually did pick up a lot yesterday on our supply run. One thing we really found we like when traveling is bottles of "lemonade" from Aldi’s. For some reason the store we normally stop at doesn’t carry it anymore, so stopped at the other one in town and bought a lot of it. The bottles are small enough to fit in a small ice chest we carry in the front with some ice. Very convenient to use and tastes good. Of corse it is an artificial product. Managed to pick up the remaining two tomato cages while we were at it, plus some miscellaneous expendable tools that have broken in the past couple of months. One thing I couldn’t find was a new inner tube for my log wagon wheel. Actually I found one, but the price was about $15.00! Not in this lifetime. The only available were fancy ones with a "stop-leak" (called Slime) material in the tube. Guarantee to fill leaks for up to two years! Not impressed. The other tubes available were for industrial applications, which have a much bigger cross-section to the tire. I ended up buying a patching kit to repair the present tube. The cost of the kit was about the same as I expected to pay for a new tube! Haven’t repaired an inner tube for a number of years. Hope I remember how.
The picture is inside of a bake-house on one of the German farms at Old World Wisconsin. Thought it was some appropriate since I mentioned the new range coming. The gal in the picture is baking some rhubarb coffee cake in the wood fired masonry oven behind here. She had one which was already baked on the table in the center of the building. The corner to the left had a wood fired caldron, primarily used to heat large quantities of water for laundry, scalding chickens, or any other use where very hot water was needed. The building itself is fieldstone construction and was used both summer and winter for much of the baking and butchering needed to be done on the farm. It really smelled good walking into it! I think it would have been a place on the farm I would have stayed pretty close to.
There are 3 or 4 German farms at Old World, this was probably the most typical of those used by the farmers. The other two were more affluent and had hired folks to do most of the work. They were very interesting and we really enjoyed them. Margriet especially, since they are similar in many respects to those in the area she grew up in. Between the two of us, we took about 125 pictures over the two day ride. I sure am glad we no longer need to buy film or pay for processing! We also have the ability to make poor pictures more acceptable too.
We are planning on a very quiet few days. Not planning to go anywhere or do much than things around here. Stopped for gas yesterday and put in $50.00 worth - I didn’t even fill the tank! That’s nuts! The price went up 10¢/gallon over night, so my fill up was ill timed. Our part-time neighbors are up already. Suspect there will be more coming there today. Also expect, but don’t appreciate the fireworks they normally set off. Guess I am getting old, but worry about fireworks in a wooded area too.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
60º F, Cloudy, S wind 6 mph.
Good morning,
It started yesterday afternoon - the annual 4th of July rush of city dudes heading north on vacation. This year since the 4th is on Tuesday, there are a lot of folks making it a bit of a longer vacation. Actually we are on the way to up north, and the main highways are through Green Bay, we don’t see that much disruption here. That’s not to say there is an increase of folks in the area. Apparently there also are a lot of folks not making long trips this year thanx to the high fuel prices, resulting in almost all products also being higher priced. Actually the harbor slips are still not filled with boats and there is an increase of "travel trailers" and motor homes parked in the area camping facilities this year rather than being transit. I know we are making short trips this year rather than an extended one.
The other day, the light bulb in the oven burned out, so we went to Green Bay yesterday to get a new one. Some other things too. The upshot of the deal is we "forgot" to get a new one and will need to return on Wednesday to get it - along with the socket and the oven around it. We looked at a couple of stores for new ranges and came to the conclusion we would but the range we saw at the first store a few weeks ago! Prices have really increased on the new ranges from the time I had the store. But I really expected that. What used to be the price on a full featured range is not the low end price. The range we are replacing is 30 years old which I sold to Mom when it was new, fairly well featured. The new one will cost the a bit more than I sold the old one for, only without most of the features. Should be one less excuse for not having perfect bread!
We actually did pick up a lot yesterday on our supply run. One thing we really found we like when traveling is bottles of "lemonade" from Aldi’s. For some reason the store we normally stop at doesn’t carry it anymore, so stopped at the other one in town and bought a lot of it. The bottles are small enough to fit in a small ice chest we carry in the front with some ice. Very convenient to use and tastes good. Of corse it is an artificial product. Managed to pick up the remaining two tomato cages while we were at it, plus some miscellaneous expendable tools that have broken in the past couple of months. One thing I couldn’t find was a new inner tube for my log wagon wheel. Actually I found one, but the price was about $15.00! Not in this lifetime. The only available were fancy ones with a "stop-leak" (called Slime) material in the tube. Guarantee to fill leaks for up to two years! Not impressed. The other tubes available were for industrial applications, which have a much bigger cross-section to the tire. I ended up buying a patching kit to repair the present tube. The cost of the kit was about the same as I expected to pay for a new tube! Haven’t repaired an inner tube for a number of years. Hope I remember how.
The picture is inside of a bake-house on one of the German farms at Old World Wisconsin. Thought it was some appropriate since I mentioned the new range coming. The gal in the picture is baking some rhubarb coffee cake in the wood fired masonry oven behind here. She had one which was already baked on the table in the center of the building. The corner to the left had a wood fired caldron, primarily used to heat large quantities of water for laundry, scalding chickens, or any other use where very hot water was needed. The building itself is fieldstone construction and was used both summer and winter for much of the baking and butchering needed to be done on the farm. It really smelled good walking into it! I think it would have been a place on the farm I would have stayed pretty close to.
There are 3 or 4 German farms at Old World, this was probably the most typical of those used by the farmers. The other two were more affluent and had hired folks to do most of the work. They were very interesting and we really enjoyed them. Margriet especially, since they are similar in many respects to those in the area she grew up in. Between the two of us, we took about 125 pictures over the two day ride. I sure am glad we no longer need to buy film or pay for processing! We also have the ability to make poor pictures more acceptable too.
We are planning on a very quiet few days. Not planning to go anywhere or do much than things around here. Stopped for gas yesterday and put in $50.00 worth - I didn’t even fill the tank! That’s nuts! The price went up 10¢/gallon over night, so my fill up was ill timed. Our part-time neighbors are up already. Suspect there will be more coming there today. Also expect, but don’t appreciate the fireworks they normally set off. Guess I am getting old, but worry about fireworks in a wooded area too.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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