The all new WI Tag-Fest

[ddn]

Old


More info at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wi...Settlement.htm

New:

[C Squared]

I was going to go get the old one Tues. The new one is a bit far just to Tag.

[WIsixfitty]

Originally Posted by ddn

More info at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wi...Settlement.htm

Nice.

Did you drink the water?

I came to life not far from there in Oconto Falls.

[ddn]

Originally Posted by WIsixfitty

Nice.

Did you drink the water?

I sure did (but I gotta say my well water at home is much better). I was there about noon and took about an hour break just chillin on a hot day...

[lonerockz]

Ok folks this is a special tribute Tag. My riding buddy Michael had cancer take him about an hour ago. That's him in the pic.

This is the twin cites and WI tag.


Rustic Raod 54 by smccaa, on Flickr

Sorry for the low resolution earlier.

[WIsixfitty]

Originally Posted by ddn

I sure did (but I gotta say my well water at home is much better). I was there about noon and took about an hour break just chillin on a hot day...

at least there was no extra charge for iron supplements.

[pmd]

Rustic Road 54 is just off of County Road O near Millston, WI.

[pmd]

[rokklym]

Originally Posted by pmd

I was standing about 30ft away from you when you took that photo!


I didn't take photos of that moose the last couple weekends when I was there, I only took photos of the big Moose.

[pmd]

Originally Posted by rokklym

I was standing about 30ft away from you when you took that photo!

That could have been a very fast turn-around. I posted as I was eating beakfast at Perkins. You could have grabbed the tag before I was back on my bike. I really wanted to use the large moose but decided the angle wasn't right.

[ddn]

Originally Posted by pmd

The "legend" of the Orange Moose is a must read.....

Here's part:

Legend has it that about a hundred years ago an old Norwegian bachelor farmer name Torvaald Kjorvak found a wounded moose calf in the northern part of the Black River Forest when he was hunting one day. The calf was injured and starving and its mother was nowhere to be found. Torvaald brought the young animal back to his barn and nursed it back to health.

Now Torvaald came from a long line of inventors back in the old country. It was part of his nature to experiment, and he had been working on a new fortified grain mixture for his livestock, but with no success. When he gave the mysterious mixture to his beef cattle it caused excessive gas buildup in the poor animals, and rather more unfortunate than usual olfactory consequences for anyone standing downwind of the herd, but it didn't improve their nutrition or health one bit.

He decided to try the mixture on the moose, and from the start it was amazing. The animal grew quicker and bigger than Torvaald had ever seen an ungulate animal grow before. The mixture was a wonder drug for the moose. After a full year of feeding, the bachelor farmer noticed something strange beginning to happen, apart from the fact that this critter was now almost twelve feet tall.

It was starting to turn an odd color. It might have been a high level of beta carotene in the alfalfa mixture or it might have been an unusual genetic glitch in his pet moose, but either way, the animal was turning orange. Not a bright orange at first, more like a dusty tangerine in the beginning. But it was changing color before Torvaald's eyes.

[Mattbastard]

Originally Posted by rokklym

I was standing about 30ft away from you when you took that photo!


I didn't take photos of that moose the last couple weekends when I was there, I only took photos of the big Moose.

So is this the new tag or what? I can't tell, just two orange mooses (meece?)

[C Squared]

The smaller of the two is the Tag. Pretty sure you can see one from the other.

[propforward]

Tagged.



The Orange Moose at the Orange Moose Grill and Bar. Black River Falls.

Here's yer new tag:



I got the moose on friday, photographed the new tag earlier on today.

This game doesn't move very fast, eh?

[Dave in Wi]

Darn it, wrong building. I need to try again...