Delinquent in So Many Ways...

So you may have noticed some delinquency on my part with no blog entries for 2 days last week... Well,  I played hooky with the girls last Wednesday as our book group, The Happy Bookers, with a field trip to the south western part of the state. En route we had our first stops in the town of Fennimore  at a local diner, Frederick's, where a piece of homemade pie is just $2.50 (just one reason to love small towns) and a place I had intended to stop at before which was the museum home of the Railroad Historical Society and the docent was thrilled to have our company... After beginning our photo journal off we went down the street...

One ringy dingy

to Carr's Cheese Shoppe for a variety of cheeses for our evening game, wine & cheese soiree.  SO we had the game and the cheese only  only one thing missing... Yes,

some wine purchases.  A trusty GPS made sure it was as the sign said:

Our first winery stop was Whispering Winds where maybe fate had us finding a locked door ???
We obviously interrupted the day's one man bottling operation of a wine ironically named 'Autumn Breeze' as it was a 90 degree day and I think the owner really would have appreciated an autumn breeze, don't you?

 Downstairs in the bottling area didn't appear to be much cooler from the looks of things...

The girls gave me the empathy award for making a purchase at this stop but if they really think about it, there weren't many stops that I didn't buy something... My motto is to support local businesses but I have to admit  we all enjoyed our next stop better. 

We learned more about the different wines and I left with 2 award winners,  Spurgeon's Grand Raspberry and their Cranberry.

We also enjoyed their gift shop and everybody left with at least one souvenir of our visit, wine coasters to use for the rest of our stay in Mineral Point.  What's a girl without her own personal drink coaster.

 It doesn't take much to make us Happy Bookers...

A girl's day is always special even if one lives in the End of the Rainbow Valley... But you know I am thinking we do grow grapes.  Nah, I'll leave those for jelly and juice and leave the winemaking to the wineries.