Wonderful Wisconsin Part 2

What I loved and/or learned about Wisconsin...

• Absolutely beautiful farms!  The classical style that you imagine as the perfect farm with beautiful homes, the classic red barns, silos, and holsteins!
• I didn't get a picture of this but there were so many brick homes...but the brick was like this golden butterscotch color.  It was gorgeous and like nothing I had ever seen before.  Stunning...!
• Farmers grow corn mainly to use as feed for the livestock and not so much for cash crop as in Ohio.
• There are old schoolhouses every 4 miles.  This was so children didn't have to walk more than 2 miles to school.  They are beautiful and most have been renovated into homes.
• Most of the restaurants are actually bars.  You have to specifically ask to sit in the dining room because they assume you want to sit at the bar.  Drinking beer is part of the culture....Christian or non-Christian. 
• It has strong German-Catholic roots.
• It is extremely green and lush!
• There are lakes and rivers everywhere!  People don't need a sandy beach, they just hop in and swim.  Many "Chicagoans" now travel to vacation at the different lakes in Wisconsin.  Word on the street is Oprah has a house on Kelly Lake.  Remember, Holiday Inn at Kelly Lake (from an earlier post).  ;)
• Green Bay is actually very small and not anything like a city in a typical sense.  There were no skyscrapers, thus no cityscape/skyline.  We went on a Friday afternoon and there was no traffic and it seemed very easy to navigate. 
• They thought is was deadly hot.  It was like 88 degrees with some humidity.  I didn't think anything about the heat.
• Looking at the map, you can certainly tell Wisconsin was definitely the original home of many Native American tribes.  In fact, the city of Green Bay had to annex it's borders because originally Lambeau Field was on the Oneida Nation Reservation.
• TIP: Do not travel through the reservations at night. 
• The county roads are all lettered such as "County A", "County B", etc.  When these two roads combine the road is "County AB."  State Routes are numbered and township roads are named.  Makes it easy to know which kind of road you are on.
• There is a bar called "The AA Bar" because it is on "County AA".  My sister-in-law asked if it was a dry bar.  ;)
• People are generally either Catholic, Lutheran, or don't go to church.  John's church has an average attendance of 150 people on Sunday and this is considered a bigger church for the area.

• Behind John & Jennifer's home is a huge green bean field.  These were planted for a cannery.  I found this interesting since...well, haven't you ever wondered where canned vegetables are grown?


• John and Jennifer have the most incredible garden I have ever seen.  Their tomato plants were at least 6 feet tall.  They yeilded at least 6 dozen ears of corn.  They also planted red onions, potatoes, white onions. green peppers, and carrots.  They also have raspberry bushes in their garden that have flourished!  We enjoyed fresh raspberries on our homemade ice cream one evening.