This morning while I talked with Mama and Daddy on the phone, Helen and Tom were making a great breakfast -- blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries, bacon and sausage patties. Lucy didn't get out of bed until midmorning, so it was more brunch maybe than breakfast.
After Lucy took off for Chicago, Helen got packed up and we drove her and Buddy up to Osseo to meet Jay driving down from Minnesota. The normal meeting place is Osseo because it is conveniently halfway and it is the location of the Norske Nook, a small Norwegian bakery and restaurant that is ridiculously famous for its pies. Seriously. Tour buses turn off the interstate and drive into downtown Osseo -- not much, trust me -- so people can unload and get a piece of pie (or some to take home) at the Norske Nook. Everything is made from scratch, and they have won 13 blue ribbons in the past five years at the National Pie Championship. Fortunately, their apple, cherry, blueberry and peach pies are available in a sugar-free version, although I imagine the crusts are filled with butter. I must also tell you that the pie is the thing. The rest of the menu offerings are nothing to blog home about.
The terrain, sculpted by glaciers, is quite interesting for part of the drive. Here you see some of the bluffs near Camp Douglas outside of Tomah. An area of about 1,825 square miles was covered with water in Wisconsin's central region due to glaciation about 70,000 years ago. Water depths reached 150 feet. The bluffs are composed of sandstone mounds and were islands in the Wisconsin Glacial Lake.
After Lucy took off for Chicago, Helen got packed up and we drove her and Buddy up to Osseo to meet Jay driving down from Minnesota. The normal meeting place is Osseo because it is conveniently halfway and it is the location of the Norske Nook, a small Norwegian bakery and restaurant that is ridiculously famous for its pies. Seriously. Tour buses turn off the interstate and drive into downtown Osseo -- not much, trust me -- so people can unload and get a piece of pie (or some to take home) at the Norske Nook. Everything is made from scratch, and they have won 13 blue ribbons in the past five years at the National Pie Championship. Fortunately, their apple, cherry, blueberry and peach pies are available in a sugar-free version, although I imagine the crusts are filled with butter. I must also tell you that the pie is the thing. The rest of the menu offerings are nothing to blog home about.
The terrain, sculpted by glaciers, is quite interesting for part of the drive. Here you see some of the bluffs near Camp Douglas outside of Tomah. An area of about 1,825 square miles was covered with water in Wisconsin's central region due to glaciation about 70,000 years ago. Water depths reached 150 feet. The bluffs are composed of sandstone mounds and were islands in the Wisconsin Glacial Lake.
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