Slightly different topic: We still found bubblers (as they are called in Wisconsin), but the big, long trough versions were gone.
Not only did they replace the bubblers this year, but at least in Vintage they seem to have sunk a new well or something. The water in the well behind the hangar cafe which feeds various thing in area is much improved.
The molten Formica core of Wisconsin solidified
250 million years ago near Brillion and was
carved by early Swedish, Danish, and standoffish
settlers into a four story diorama commemorating
Houdini, Liberace, Vince Lombardi and Edna
Ferber frying walleye on a snow shovel.
Meanwhile, primordial phlegm mixed with indigenous
Leinie and Mukwa, out of which emerged
the elusive burrowing amphibians dubbed
survivalists who eventually fossilized into a glittering
band of Posse Comitatusite up by Highway
26.
Soon thereafter, Nicolet, with his younger brother
Nickel B, discovered Door County while sailing in
search of a Land's End outlet, unfortunately
pretzeling prematurely in Egg Harbor of a fish
boil.
A century later, Merriweather Lewis and Kimberly
Clark cleared the entire Hurley main drag in just
under six years, living on Lunchables,
Leinenkeugel, lutefisk and filleted fingerlings from
the Flambeau flowage.
Lewis and Clark continued south with the
Voyageurs, dragging a nine man khaki duck
dingy full of zebra mussels, Dutch elm beetles,
deer ticks, and purple loosestrife to trade with the
natives for hodag jerky and finger Jello.
Eventually they founded the Fox cities, naming
them after Columbus's ships, the Neenah,
Menasha, and Santa Maria, adjacent to
Wisconsin's only Hawaiian settlement, Kau
Kauna, which can be loosely translated as
“empty dog track.”
Continuing toward Illinois, in search of the fountain
of youth or, as it's called in Wisconsin, the
bubbler of youth, they realized they had overshot
the border when their guides began stopping
every few miles to throw forty cents into the
bushes.
They returned in 1848, just in time to see Wisconsin
gain statehood, which is like neighborhood
but with rest areas and a lottery.
Harley Davidson was our first governor, and
boxing was king, with Fighting Bob LaFollette
defending his crown against the Menard's Guy.
Time for a leftover millennial 2000 fun Wisconsin
fact: If the zeros in 2000 were subtracted from
the O's in Oconomowoc, you would be left with
Omro.
In closing, we should be proud that the state flour
is Pillsbury Presifted, state motto is "I Can Quit
Whenever I Want," state shield is an Illinois plate,
state opera is Aida Brat, the State symbol is the
plywood bent over garden hinder.