Cheeses Take The Wheel

In our continuing mission to bring you up-to-the-minute news about Wisconsin cheeseshops, we bring you breaking news that the Mars Cheese Castle is moving.

Somehow, this is part of Obama's financial recovery plan and has something to do with a billion dollar expansion of the highway leading between Milwaukee and Chicago.

The Mars Cheese Castle will be moving into a to-be-constructed location 10 acres south of where they are currently. Meanwhile, Tim and Tom's Cheese Shop, also located at the Mars interchange, will close its location and perhaps open later, one interchange to the south. The Journal-Sentinel reports that Tim and Tom's will "liquidate more than 1,000 pounds of Wisconsin cheese and sausage" during the Milwaukee Brewer's opening game. (If I were a reporter working on a story about cheese and sausage, I would probably do whatever I could to avoid the verb "liquidate.")

Bobby Nelson's Cheese Shop, also near the Cheese Castle in Paris, WI, thankfully remains unaffected by the highway expansion. Nelson, who died at 84 in 2002, was a former professional wrestler who originated the full- and half-nelson holds. I've also been made to understand that he made a heckuva sausage.

Let's hope that the University of Lawsonomy and the Bong Recreational Area are similarly spared.

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It's been a week of reunions so far in the Townblog house. My parents returned from Naples, Florida, over the weekend so the boys got to see their Granny and Papa for the first time since Christmastime. Just as important, however, is the return to our household of Batman, who'd been missing since mid-summer. (Somehow, Batman returned in store packaging, despite being lost to the Wisconsin wilds.)

Batman was presented to Sam early this morning, and Sam responded:

"Batman! I've missed you!"

Sam then posed Batman in a lengthy and welcoming embrace with his fellow Super Friend known as The Flash. The two are currently cohabitating in Daddy's coat pocket, perhaps discussing their pride in the Supreme Court of Iowa.