The other night I ran out of bananna's. Big NO NO on my part. See, I have a special needs coon who must have nightly banana's.
Banana's are his coonie crack!
First time I've run out and I had not realized how big a deal it was going to be. However I learend banana's are also his pacifier and allow him to settle in and sleep for the night.
I did say he was special needs...he also sleeps at night, for the most part.
After checking the area stores, and even driving over to the BP in Ixonia I came back with no banana's. By now I refused to drive into Watertown or Oconomowoc for them and thought deal with it.
Yeah, right.
chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter and the pacing. Poor baby needed a nana
I was lucky enough to find a jar of gerber baby banana's and that satisfied him for the night. Feeding a special needs coon gerber baby nana just so he could sleep...............yawn!!!
Closest Kwik Trip would have been Oconomowoc and I refused to drive that far....should have just gave in and did it cuz I paid the price.
The BP on F & 16 had banana's the other day..and I needed them again. OMG I paid $.59 per banana! YIKES! Went to Walmart the next day and paid $.59 a pound.
Again, living in a larger city of 90,000 + you get a lot of choices even at night around here. Just take your pick of places to shop at.
I can't even name off all the places you can get bananas here. Woodmans is huge and stays open 24 hrs and has great prices. You can sometimes get bananas by the grocery bag for around a few dollar or less. My daughter grabs that when she is making a bunch of banana bread... (bunch...lol) sorry.
Aldi usually has a good price on bananas too. Then we have a Sav-A-Lot, and a Fresh Market that usually has them cheaper too besides all the regular grocery stores.
Guess you will just have to come visit down here sometime and get a bunch of bananas to take home.
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Rome does not have a post office so depending on where you are your mailing is either Helenville, or Sullivan
Rome has a store that was once an old barn...sells everything but bananas!
You can get video's camping gears basics, booze, pop, chips and basic groceries, home made sandwich of the day or icecream...store is called PICKETS
then we have a bar called The Wild Horse which is not too wild. Rather dead nightly
Then there is the Bowling alley with 6 lanes, attached bar/kitchen with some of the best food I've ever had! Friday night fish fries are awesome with home made potato pancakes
Then we have a Church.
That is Rome
From there you start traveling from community to community and they get bigger or smaller.
Jefferson just got a Walmart. It's grand opening was during our floods and 1/2 the town could not get to Walmart because the main road/bridge was closed.
Rome has a store that was once an old barn...sells everything but bananas!
You can get video's camping gears basics, booze, pop, chips and basic groceries, home made sandwich of the day or icecream...store is called PICKETS
I would be in culture shock. No big malls close by? No outlet stores? Nothing? oh my.
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One weekend we spent up at the Dells. Coming home I was commenting that I did really well in not spending any money at the stores up there. (nothing but tourist junk) and we pretty much stayed at the hotel with the fun water park for the kids. ....then we stopped at the Johnson Creek Outlet Mall. They had an Old Navy Store that had some really great Clearance Racks. Needless to say $100.00 plus and a bunch of bags. My son got a bunch of clothes and I had fun. lol
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When I was younger I lived in a city with 1,300,000+ people (New Orleans). After Hurricanes Katrina there's just a fraction of the people living there now and many won't return for good reason.
I came up to Wisconsin for a family reunion quite a few years ago and just loved the clean air, see the fish swimming in the water and the friendly people, and it wasn't sooo hot lol.
I managed to talk my family to move up to Wisconsin and here I am now
I like the small city life. If I want to see bigger and better I'll just travel to see them, then come back to see the deer in my yard
Thank God for Aldi's by the way.. great place to shop inexpensively (and get bananas).
Great story about the coon, Carol! I had a pet coon as a kid, it loved to throw my mom's cigarettes in it's water dish. Great escape artist too.. we had a doggie crate we'd keep it in if we had to be away for the day and 9 times out of 10, he'd find some way to get out.
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Aldi usually has a good price on bananas too. Then we have a Sav-A-Lot, and a Fresh Market that usually has them cheaper too besides all the regular grocery stores.
Guess you will just have to come visit down here sometime and get a bunch of bananas to take home.
One weekend we spent up at the Dells. Coming home I was commenting that I did really well in not spending any money at the stores up there. (nothing but tourist junk) and we pretty much stayed at the hotel with the fun water park for the kids. ....then we stopped at the Johnson Creek Outlet Mall. They had an Old Navy Store that had some really great Clearance Racks. Needless to say $100.00 plus and a bunch of bags. My son got a bunch of clothes and I had fun. lol
I have not found much at the Johnson Creek Outlet... I bought the kids and I shoes from Addias and some skate board store the middle kid wanted shoes from. My daughter didn't like anything. The stuff my son liked was way too pricey. I have better finds at Walmart
I want to get to the Dells yet this year. Every year a Indian Store up there puts on a wonderful Pow Wow and I dont want to miss it....but first I have to find the date.
When I was younger I lived in a city with 1,300,000+ people (New Orleans). After Hurricanes Katrina there's just a fraction of the people living there now and many won't return for good reason.
So were you living there when Katrina hit or had you already moved to WI?
I had many friends involved in the animal rescue efforts down there. Val still has several dogs.
We had several dogs make their way up here as well. Many of them had heart worms. Many also had mange mites. All were so scared.
I think all the Katrina dogs that made their way up here have since been adopted.
So coming home last (11-18-08) night from my last clients house (darker then dark and no street lights) I spot a critter on the center line as I fly by doing 55. I quickly hit the breaks because I saw it's head move and I fly back in reverse. No cars were coming my way at the moment, but I saw the lights.
I see what seems to be a possie just sitting on the center line. No lights so it's hard to tell, but I"m pretty sure that's what it is. I put the hazzards on and no time to pull net or carrier as cars are coming...and fast.
I rip off my coat to throw over this critter that is defonatly injured because it's not trying to get away from me and I'm waving at on coming cars to slow down.
They stop and watch as my coat covers what's in the road and I scoop it up and put it in the car....No interior lights either. I have a short and it's not worth the $$ to me to have it fixed....so I carry around one of those shining lights that hunters use.
I get further down the road and stop in a safer area. Plug in this light to see what's inside my coat and you will never believe what I scooped up off the road.....
It's not a possie......
So as the light shines into my jacket and this critter sees me, it darts up and smash's head first into my side window. Then proceeds to cling from my ceiling ripping in to the interior.
I move and it's a flash of light making it's way thru the van leaving slash marks were ever it can.
Oh great ~ I have a feral cat in my van! Young cat, ver feral. How in the world did I scoop it up off the center line??? Why didn't it run??? How am I going to get home safe??
Geeeezzze....... I made it home and could not find kitty anywhere in the van. I dont have back seats so there is no hidy spot except up under the driver seat because the passenger seat has a drawer under it.
OMG kitty is wedged between my emergency break and pretty close to the dash. I sure dont want it getting up into the dash.
Like Superman I leap over the front seat and grab ahold of kitty while it sinks all it's claws into my hand and lets me know it's got teeth.
With kitty scruffed I bring it inside to check it out. I dont feel anything wrong with the spin. I dont feel anything wrong with the back legs. I know it's got sharp teeth and claws!
So I crated it for observation. Checked on her this morning and she ate, and pottied so those functions are working. As I opened the crate she got up and walked to the back of the crate. Legs seem fine.
She Stinks horrible though. I thing I'm smelling infection so have to really check her over once more. She/he (not sexed at this point) seems to be around 4 months old.
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Hwy 18 is doing great. I have posts out looking for her owner. This was defonatly someones cat at one time..... not feral as I first thought. Just freeked out by whatever had just happened to it.
By the next day I was holding it and it was purring...uses the litter box. LOVES people. SO far no luck finding it's owner.
I've an offer from a rescue in Waupaca to take her so that is probably where she's going to go if I can't find her owner in the next few days.
I can not keep her. Kitties and baby wildlife do not mix.
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