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Manicured lawns with that soft lush green grass that calls out for

you to roll around on it. Again the flower varieties were stunning.

We then pointed north and headed for the Peninsula of Door

County. We now entered the real farm county of Wisconsin.
Thousands upon thousands of corn plantings. Haven’t seen the

two story farmhouses and red barns since I left our family farm in
central New York. The barns have up to 8 silos and open corncribs

as well. The other crop that is huge here is snap beans – both for
an exportable cash crop and for crop rotation with the corn.

We stopped in Two Rivers (the home of the first ice cream
sundae). The gentleman that served us was talkative and filled us

in on some of the local color. We learned that the local corn is
grown for the dairy herds. They chop the whole thing up and put

it in silos. This is mixed – 75% hay, 15% corn and the rest barley
and oats. Winter-feed. They get little snow here due to the effects

of the Lake. Does get down to 20 below on occasions. Kids still go
to school – only close school for heavy snow if the plows can’t

clear it by morning.

Charlton Heston’s wife was born and raised in this town. He drops

by now and then but we didn’t get to see him to discuss the finer
points of the National Rifle Association’s stand on hand gun

control. Got the impression that our tour guide thinks very highly
of the man so we did not get into the issues of gun control with

him either.

At last we found our way to Egg Harbor, our home for two nights

in Door County Peninsula with Green Bay on the west and Lake
Michigan on the east. Had a too large meal at a local “fine”

restaurant. It’s a bar and also has to be where the Moose or

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