Eating at The State Fair

And so it begins.
2012
Wisconsin
State Fair

Our tickets to the fair

Every year our 1st stop of  things to eat are
Saz's sour cream fries...my personal fave
and deep fried potato chips.

1st bite

This was suppose to be spicy Hot deep fried chicken.
Was not hot, but It was good!

Deep Fried Peanut Butter and Jelly
Really really good.
Our Middle son gets it every year.
I had a bite an loved it!

D always has to have a strawberry sundae that comes from our county.
He calls it supporting our township.
I call it soothing his sweet tooth.
I am the savory gal
he is the sweet guy. No pun intended.
Makes for a good relationship.
I bake he eats. LOL

D has always has to support the Lion's Club of New Berlin.
Loves his corn!


We did not exactly eat our way through the fair but we did our share.
Is there something you just cannot pass up at your local fair?

Have a great Labor Day Weekend
and eat yourself silly!
Cheers
Shel

Four Generations of Crap In the Barn

                                              

               Are you all ready to see some mess?

Me neither but it has to be done and done it will be if we want to get this VRBO/Wedding barn going.

We have dates because of so many things coming up in Wisconsin in the next few years. Plus we want to do this for retirement so it has to begin.

This is what 4 generations of crap looks like.
My parents left this for D and I to clean up.
 Can you say thank you? Mom and Dad. They had fallen ill before they even got a chance to start the clean up. So it fell upon us. You have no clue how many times I opened and closed that barn door because I just could not face it.

This is to the right of the barn where we are going to put our VRBO
Isn't it apealing?
Don't u just want to sleep here?
Phew...

I call showing all these pictures  a cleansing for me.
You can't address it unless you see it for what it is.

The upper loft is there where we are putting beds..again how cozy!!!! It has tons of old old hay there and gawd knows what other creatures or things live up there.
Ugh

I have lived here 5 years..my parents lived here 45 years.
We needed to clean the house and gut it to live in it. So guess where it all went? 
Yep into the barn, it was added stuff that was already in the barn from past generations of stuff. 
Then you have kids moving in an out and leaving their things in here over the years.
So it is stuff upon stuff upon 
MORE STUFF!

Have you ever gotten to a point where you have cleaned something so many times you just stop?
She raises hands jumping up and down screaming
"ME, ME ME"
I have to confess that it has been 5 years and I have tried. 
I really have. But then I come across something of my parents, I fall apart and I have to leave. I close the door and pretend it is clean in my mind.
However I have decided that I want this as a wedding venue and a vrbo an I have to get stronger and just do it.

This is some of the things from the inside on the lawn.
Lovely isnt it?

My youngest son gets credit for doing this, he did it 
all by himself I helped a little. An I mean a little. Every time I went out to help he yelled. So I left him alone. I come to find out later he was grieving for his grandparents who he was VERY close to. He cried and threw things and yelled out loud (at me at times). But in the end he was good!

After cleaning the whole right side out he began the daunting task of going to the top of the loft and started to throw the crappy hay down to the open space. We believe the hay was over 40 years old.
Ughhhh...
If you have ever taken care of ill parents you will understand that your energy goes to ALL of that and everything else JUST does not matter. You just want what precious time left to spend with those people you dearly love. And you selfishly want them to live 4-ever.
At least that is what I wanted!
So everything else went on the back burner.
With no regrets.

Here is that sweet sweet boy!

He worked over 8 hours on this side alone.
Bless his skinny boney butt!

This is the next phase...ughhh

Some of the hay!

We are going to put this on the field.

I am standing on a huge desk taking these few next pictures.

I ignore the look and just visualize the VRBO.
In my head it looks awesome!

If u are following this blog you will see the transformation of this barn.
SO thanks for checking us out and keep coming back and seeing our progress
slow maybe at times but we have a 2-3 yr plan and we are going to do it.

Thanks
Cheers
Shel

Fair Food Stands

My fave place to get my sour cream fries.
Always my 1st stop.

My fave beer of all time.
Leines from
Chippewa Falls Wis

Where we get our home made potato chips every year.

Cant go wrong with Sprecker Root beer
a Wisconsin Favorite.
My fave, even over A&W.

If you come to Wisconsin you need to experience a fish boil
from Door County.

I call this deep fry alley

Yum!

Eat Meat?

Sugar fix.

A must at any fair

Hope your week is going great!
Cheers
Shel

Etsy Featured My Store Last Week

Etsy featured my store last week. My 2nd store

1outanabout. I was so tickled and overwhelmed by the response. I had so many convo's going at all hours of the day and night. Just so you know I am the one with the brown truck and blanket on the back. The truck was my father's and it reminds me of him ALL the time. It does work and I should really do a post on it. However it can make me a tad weepy. But I will someday make a point to write something on it. We plan on revamping and painting it. But I am kinda partial to the color. Although the actual color is Red inside the door.

Any whoooo I digress I just wanted to share the sweet thing that happened in my world last week!

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