good and plenty

a few weeks ago i found a board game that i didn't know existed.

the choo-choo charlie game. 

 i remember the commercial you can see it on youtube. i have had many boxes of good and plenty in my day but i never knew there was a game.  

magpie ethel just posted her great collection of board games, so i thought i would post my latest find.  my collection is nowhere near hers, maybe a total of 3 - candy land, the barbie game and now choo choo charlie.  i am having a hard time finding anyone that has heard of choo choo charlie.  maybe it was a west coast thing?

a box of good and plenty candy was not only a great candy but an interactive one also.  we use to shake the box back and forth to make the "choo choo" sound and then when it was empty you could make the sound of the train whistle by blowing thru the empty box.  

below are the other characters, but i am having a hard time finding their names.

poor pup, needs a box of good and plenty.

go fish

time for good 'ol wisconsin fish frys.

my ode to local establishments where you can enjoy friday night fish frys.

one of my favorite places for fish is "the old fashion" in madison.  the decor is full of beer advertisement.  note tv in this ad.

i found a similar one a few years ago.  

yum. 

happy holidays!

don't forget the 

let's do math

i foung these "sweet" flash cards at a garage sale for a quarter.  love the graphics.  the majority of the flash cards involve cake, candy or pie. 

 who could concentrate on math when seeing all these sweets?

they did throw in a few fruits.

and there is one vegetable - why bother?

happy pie day

yes it does!

 

 we had pie day at work today, yum!   we have celebrated pie day for the last 13ish years. first we have pizza pie then on to the main event, pies, pies and more pie.  another banner year for pie day.

 

 

   this year i used a recipe from the norske nook, sour cream blackberry pie - but i made it a sour cream berry pie.   click here to make your own norske nook blackberry sour cream pie.   way back when, i worked at a little grocery store in osseo, waldo's corner grocery.  many a friday night, helen myhre who started the norske nook, would come in after working a full day at the restaurant to fill up 2 grocery carts with roasts, veggies, fruit, butter etc. whatever was needed to continue the good home cookin' at the restaurant.  she was a hard worker.  helen helped to put Osseo on the map with the norske nook, she even appeared on letterman and made or tried to make pies with dave.       pie makes people happy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yule love it

how cute it this!

 

i headed to a local holiday craft fair, the holiday craftactular with my friend denise and decided to stop at the daisy cafe for some tasty breakfast, and maybe a cupcake for desert before tackling the craftacular. 

this is what greats you as you enter the door.

the cupcakes are as tasty as they look. i had a strawberry champagne cupcake and denise had the "see the blazing yule before us" log.

one last look at the log, before it was gone....

on the road to state

we headed up north to watch football, kyle is a coach on the high school team.  we made a side trip to a little town, rudolph, home of the wisconsin dairy state cheese co.

 

 

you can buy bulk butter, of course.

making cheese curds.

they have a room full of pretty blue and white cheese keepers.

 

won't keep you in suspense, this is how the game ended, on to state!

happy team, fans and kyle.

foster cheese house

a few weeks ago we were up north at the farm and we had breakfast at the foster cheese house just down the road in foster.  it's a very nice cheese shop but it also has a great little cafe inside.

here is the wood fire that they use to make wood fire pizzas, need to try that out next.

grandma's still deciding.

talk about fresh cream, it comes from the castle rock dairy maybe a couple miles down the road from the cheese shop. 

my breakfast, yum!  homemade bread, homemade jam.

castle rock milk, the milkman will deliver if you live in the area.

castle rock cheese and they also have castle rock ice cream.