ya'll come

to calamity janes

they are reopening 

in their new shop on

127 north main st. in lake mills, wi.

saturday, march 1, 10-4 

i took this photo a few years ago so the address above is of the old shop.

you can imagine how cute the actual store is after seeing this adorable

sidewalk sign.

yee haw!

olympic shopping

a new world record!

almost 3 hours

shopping at the urban farmgirl a few weeks back.

the only reason we did leave 

was she was going to be closing soon.....

my friend kathy/kate came home with the gold - 

the cute robins blue buffet/desk above.

it is so cute.

boys of winter

i happened to look out the window to the backyard just before dusk and saw the neighbor boys

having some winter fun.

they were shoveling the

snow off the frozen creek to make way

for some ice hockey.

if you look close you can see 2 little pumpkins - how cute is that for a 

a makeshift goal.

or were they using the pumpkins as "stones" for a curling game? 

 future winter olympians?

also if you look close you can see

the small fire that is just getting going

on the ice.

my camera lost battery power as the fire 

was getting bigger so i don't have a better photo of the fire.

the creek rarely freezes over.

guess spontaneous hockey on the frozen creek

is one of the perks of this coooooold winter.

the neighbor boys playing on the frozen creek

 reminded me of the sleding scene in 

the movie "it's a wonderful life" 

so picturesque.

it also brought back memories of our boys exploring the woods,

building forts, canoing down the creek.

it was a wonderful life.

stormy kromer

continuing on the olympics theme,

Stormy Kromer (also known as the elmer fudd hat) was named the official lifestyle 

apparel sponsor of the 

USA ski jumping and the official fashion wear supplier of the women's 

ski jumping USA.

i learned of this last summer when we were in

mackinac at the

mackinac clothing store.

i was talking to the very nice lady as she was ringing me up

 and she asked where we were

from.

i told her and said we hadn't been back in mackinaw since our honeymoon

many, many many years ago.

as i was telling her this another

women walked by and chimed in

that she hadn't been back to mackinaw since her honeymoon.

she looked to be in her late 70's.

 the shop lady said oh, how long have you been married?

she replied 8 weeks.  : )

they are made in the good ol' USA

history here

here is the olympic version.

 this year is the 1st time the women's ski jumping team is competing in the olympics.

my grandpa and uncles were ski jumpers.

little partial to this event.