7 Brides for 7 Brothers, as all Fireside productions, was wonderful. The meal too was SO good. We had Pork with bread stuffing with saurkraut in it (It sounds weird but it really adds a nice taste.) mashed potatoes, sauteed squashes, a wonderful salad and the breads that the Fireside is famous for.

I brought home three loaves this time.

Have a nice Sunday.

Mary

The Merlot and the Beaugolaise wines were both VERY good. We are now ready to share them.

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober." Yeats

Have a wonderful weekend. We are going to the Fireside in Fort Atkinson to see 7 Brides for 7 Brothers.

Bye

Mary

The winemaking is coming along just fine. We bottled the first batch of currant wine last week. We named it Kathy's Currant because I got the currants from Jeff and Kathy. The second batch is a different recipe and needs to be racked once more before it is bottled. We can do it today along with racking a batch of Nectarine that needs to clear up a bit more.

The mountain ash should be ready to try again. Actually it will not be a year until after January, but we are trying at three month intervals. We are going to test the Merlot and Bougolaise in the next day or two. This has turned into a fun hobby and Dick enjoys doing it with me too. He loves being able to give bottles of wine to guests. We wish we'd get a bit more feedback. This year, the chokecherry crop is pretty sparse, so no Banshee Blood. I do have the currant though which will fill in the gap. I am making bigger batch of rhubarb though. I found a recipe that suggests freezing the cut fruit before making the wine and I have enough for a double batch in the freezer.

Along with the kits, we have quite a wineceller. For those of you that have not been able to partake, we call ourselves the MaryER Winery (Get it! Mary and E. R. for Ernest Richard, Dick's official name.)

Have a nice day.


Mary

Today was a nice quiet day. It started with my Wednesday morning bible study at St. Clement's. We had 16 people there today. We usually range from 14 to 22 at a high. Quite a formidable group when you consider that we start at 6:30AM. I mentioned it at a meeting at Blessed Trinity one time and Fr. Gene said that God isn't up yet, which made us all laugh and one of our members said that I should tell him that WE wake Him up.

The rest of the day was spent finally FINISHING the two wall hangings I am entering in the quilt show the weekend of the 20th, freezing tomatoes (Bobbie and Bill are on vacation and I am harvesting. Everything is ripening very fast.) and taking a little nap.

Bart and Barb are stopping for dinner on their way back from Milwaukee. Bart had to have a root canal done at the VA hospital. Good news, Barb got offered the job as manager of and Edward Jones office in De Pere. Yea. This means opportunity.

A very up day.

Love

Mary

When Bart was a little boy of about three, Kung Fu was a very popular show on TV. He is the perfect example of the fact that parents should moniter what their children watch. Those of you who remember the show know that their were good messages of morality and honor - - - -BUT he did have a good old kung fu fight each week too and Bart liked that MUCH more than he should have.

One Sunday, we went to church and I was talking to one of the priests and Bart hauled off and yelled Kung Fu and kicked him in the leg. He was immediately excommunicated. (Not for long of course.)

Later, at an Ascension Thursday service, all of the children were given balloons and after the service, were supposed to let the balloons go in a beautiful symbol of Christ rising to heaven. It came time to release the balloons and Bart said quite firmly that "God can't have my balloon." And God didn't either.

Have a good day

Mary

When my Grandfather, Mike Deeley, came to Sheboygan Falls, this was still considered quite a frontier. I know that he, coming from very the very settled and developed New England States had no idea what he would find, when he came to be the Boss Carder at the Brickner Woolen Mill. The Brickner Woolen Mill Still stands above the falls in Sheboygan Falls. It has been converted to low income housing apartments, mainly occuped by older people. The apartments are all unique and from what I saw on a tour very attractive, many of them overlooking the falls and other looking out on the historic main street. Imagine the delight of Mother and I when we toured the remodeled apartments and found Grandpa's picture on one of the landings. He is very distinctive and we could not miss that Irishman leaning up against a carder.


But what I wanted to tell you was that when Grandpa came to Falls, they dropped him off the train about two miles out of town and told him what direction to go. He made great time. The train had barely left when he heard the most god awful sound that sounded to him like Indians. When he got to town he described it to the people who greeted him and found out that it was wild turkeys.

Love

Mary