Green Bay has, among its many oddities, an old Dutch custom of St. Nick's Day which occurs on December 6 each year. In Holland they would, as the story goes, have the children put their wooden shoes outside near the door hoping St. Nick would honor them with various treats. After Nancy told me of this, I decided since I didn't have any wooden shoes I figured I would try the next best thing...hang an old pair of boxer briefs taken from the dirty clothes basket. So, instead of hanging a small sock over the fireplace, I made use the the shorts since they're much larger and figured St. Nick could put more treats in it. I will add here that certain ribald remarks were made by "someone" re. treats in my shorts. To accommodate the expected booty, I put some clamps over the legs to prevent anything falling out...as you can see it paid off big time however my blood sugar took quite a leap. I'm told all items were sourced at the Dollar Store, my wife being a regular customer there. I kid her about the manager calling to check on her well-being if she hasn't been in there for a couple days.
The Booty haul...note the 2 Matchbox items. One is a Toyota 4Runner and the other a trailer with a motorcycle on it. Rather appropriate I thought.
