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Good morning Mama Bear. I'll be thinking about you today as you go through a root canal. Praying things will go smoothly without much pain.

Thank you, Lakeside. The dentist visit could have gone better, but it's over now. I will need to go back in three weeks, but then that should be the end of it, for awhile.

I really have a hard time with the heat and my body much prefers cooler temps. Bring on winter!!

Well, it's coming, even though I would stop it if I could. LOL. I have lived in an arid hot climate too long. I can't handle the damp cold winters.

You're from Wisconsin? Maybe you could give me a few pointers on what to cover when I present your state? ;-)

So sorry the dentist hurt you. At least the worst is over. Novocaine is just sometimes not enough! The gas doesn't work on me--it's as good as nothing at all. I'd go for general anesthesia. Or is that over kill? Hmmmmmm

Percodan is goooood. You'll be better in no time. That is until it wears off....

I'm not from Wisconsin as in 'native' but lived there for seven years. It's my adopted home state and the only place I've been homesick for when I moved away. However, here are some things to cover when you feature Wisconsin:

#1)Da Packers
#2)Da Packers
#3)Da Packers
#4) cheese
#5) green and gold
#6) Lambeau Field
#7) a two week deer season that is a statewide holiday
#8) ice fishing
#9 Leinenkugel's beer
#10 Spring break-up

Seriously, the state is absolutely beautiful once you get north of those liberal bastions of Madison and Milwaukee.
There are The Dells (although it's gotten a bit "touristy"). Door county is that penninsula of land that sticks up into Lake Michigan on the east with Green Bay on its west. It has orchards and quaint little towns with bed and breakfast places and camp grounds facing the Bay. Little eateries specialize in serving boiled fish dinners prepared in large kettles over an open fire right in the dining patios. Yum.

Then there is Bayfield in the uttermost northern Wis. where you can take a ferry tour around the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. Breathtaking!

My old stomping grounds was near Lake Wissota near Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. We were surrounded by dairy farms and apple orchards which had belonged to certain families for generations.

In the winter Lake Wissota would freeze over and that's when the fun began. Folks took their ice fishing VERY serious. And NASCAR had *nothing* on us. In January cars with studded tires raced ON the frozen lake around a snow plowed, banked oval track. Top that!(grin). In the meantime snowmobiling reigned supreme. The countryside was crisscrossed by paths devoted to that sport. They even had their own miniature road signs along the way.

Summers are short but great. The cooler temps made gardening a delight and everyone planted flowers everywhere.

The running joke defining Wis. summers was:
Two weeks of poor ice fishing/bad snowmobiling
followed by hot weather for two days.

Fall was probably my favorite time of year. It was when the leaves turned riotous colors and the apples ripened in the orchards. Many families made their traditional trips to orchard country to buy fresh apples, home made apple pies and a caramel apple or two. The orchards were also the place to pick out the perfect Halloween pumpkin right off the vine.

Concerning the state bird, seal, flag, tree or flower, you are on your own Mama B. I haven't a clue!