Along The Ad Routes

by Mike Reilly

How about our first two snowfalls for this winter? We knew it wouldn’t stick with the ground being so warm, but it did hang around for a couple of days, especially in the fields where the crops had been taken. Where there was green grass yet, it would’ve made a pretty picture. If only I knew someone with a camera!!!

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Temperatures are hanging around the high 30s and low 40s. We can’t complain for this time of year, the end of November. And I did see the sun for several minutes on Saturday early afternoon! But, they will change (drop) this weekend!

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Saturday morning breakfast took us to our 69th place! We have run out of stops pretty much within about 30 minutes of Dodgeville, so we ventured to a place we had heard about, but had never made up our minds to go to - Milly‘s Diner in Dickeyville. Map Quest says it’s 34 minutes to Dickeyville from Dodgeville. Milly’s is rated with 4.8 stars, but everyone gave it 5 stars! It was Tom driving his 7-passenger Tahoe with Bob, Terry, Dewey, Tom, Potsie and Dave coming to the Chronicle office to meet with me for a 7:00 take off! We arrived easily before 8:00. Western, deluxe and ham & cheese omelettes were the choice of five of us with eggs and hash browns by Potsie and some hugh blueberry French toast going to Dave. I shared my humongous order of hash browns with Dave because with the size of my omelette I knew I would struggle to finish. Haylie, from Potosi (10 minutes away) was our server with help from a home schooled junior, Amber. Our coffee cups were kept filled and we surly didn’t go away hungry. Everything is served on (at least) 10 inch oval plates. When we were leaving I stopped and admired a pancake that a gentleman had just been served. He said that in his 95 years he hadn’t had a pancake that big. It hung over the plate by an inch all the way around!

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This Saturday is “Small Business Saturday” all around, but in Dodgeville there are events going on all day. There’s Breakfast with Santa from 8-11 a.m. at the Red Room plus photos with Santa from 12-2 at the Red Room. There’s a Cookie Walk to benefit Dodger Food Locker from 10-2 at the Methodist Church and from 10-2 the 12th Annual Gift to Give Vendor Event is at the high school. There’s also a Vendor Fair from 10-3 at the Dodger Bowl to benefit Eastern Star scholarships. From 11-12 kids can enjoy the FREE movie “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at the Dodge Theatre, preferably with a non-perishable food item to enter. There’s horse drawn carriage rides from 2-5 p.m. starting at the courthouse parking lot followed by the “Holiday Lighted Parade” at 6:00 through downtown Dodgeville. After the Memorial Lighting Ceremony at the Veterans Memorial by the courthouse, the “Greatest Gift” Live Nativity will be featured at the Abundant Life Christian Center on Level Street near Piggly Wiggly.

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Check out our Gift Guide that is part of this week’s Dodgeville Chronicle for many more holiday events throughout the area!

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I have to apologize to the Mineral Point Volleyball Team for a mistake I made in our salute to them in last week’s Dodgeville Chronicle and Democrat Tribune. I named them SWAL Conference Champions, along with all their other accoladed at the end of the season. I meant to say they were SWAL Conference Runners-Up! They had an incredible season playing at state!

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This Thursday in most well noted for being Thanksgiving! Being on November 28th, it is the latest date that it can fall on. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.

I want to wish everyone a very “Happy Thanksgiving!”