Moving it over to OT from the thread about the Wisconsin Tartan.

I had mentioned that I was long-range planning to get a wee small place up in either Wisconsin or Minnesota.

Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
If you are looking for a cabin, may I suggest the Minocqua area? Our cabin is on Big Carr Lake and we couldn't have a better location.
....trout are essential...ain't goin' nowhere that they don't got trout, hence wanting to be around those tributaries of the Mississippi.

And there should be room for the sheeps...my daughter is determined that we must have "ships". She has never gotten a good whiff of "ships" and their detritus...that's why she thinks it's a good idea. For me it would be a capital improvement as the older generation of my family from Nebraska and Kansas were heavily invested in swine...how I can still eat pork, I'll never know!

I'm also dead set on staying away from anywhere where the locals refer to Illinoisians as "G*d-d*mn Flatlanders". One of my Wisconsin-based painter friends from another forum (sorry...I've been cheating on you and participating on another forum) and I go back and forth about this. How come so many of the locals up there seem to think that they're some kind of latter day mountain men...it's WISCONSIN, fer heaven's sake!

But I do like both Minn and Wisc...had plenty of good times and know a lotta great people up there.

Best

AA