Written by Alex | October 28, 2010 | 2010 NewslettersNewsletter Tags: flowers, Gardening, jokes, recipies, stories
Goodbye for Now
Newsletter 33 – Thursday, October 28, 2010
Winding Down for 2010
Americas Best Flowers will be closing for the season this Sunday, October 31. We will be saying tearful, but temporary, good-byes this week as you come out and pick up those end-of-the-season bulbs, plants and supplies. If you find yourself needing anything in the weeks to come, we always have soils, mulches, straw, and other gardening supplies on hand, so give us a call at 222-2269 to arrange a time to stop out. We will be very glad to help you.
To keep in touch, we will send newsletters on a monthly basis throughout the winter, and will return to a weekly format in the spring. Keep us in mind for your Christmas gift card needs. Let us take the hassle out of Christmas shopping. Just place your order over the phone and we will mail the cards wherever you wish. A gift card from Americas Best not only shows you care, but it gives the recipient a promise that spring will come again.
Why did the vampire subscribe to the Wall Street Journal?
He heard it had great circulation.
Whats the BIG NEWS for 2011?
Herbs, herbs and more herbs. We will be a MUCH bigger herb grower in 2011, offering more than 100 different varieties, carefully chosen to perform well in this area. Weve listened to your requests for naturally grown plants, so next year our herbs and vegetables will be grown in a custom soil mix and fed with natural fish emulsion. So now, besides growing Americas Best Flowers we will also be growing Americas Best Herbs and Vegetables. How cool is that!?
How do witches keep their hair in place while flying?
With scare spray.
Field Trips and Tours?
Americas Best Flowers offers FREE tours and field trips for groups of any kind, including pre-school and elementary classes up to 2nd grade, horticultural students, garden clubs, senior groups, assisted living groups, and more. You can custom plan your event with scavenger hunts, growing seeds without soil, making seed balls, pizza garden ideas, and so much more!
For more information call us at 222-2269. If we are away from the phone, please leave a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Or send an email to ed@americasbestflowers.com. We look forward to helping you plan your best event ever.
What is a vampires favorite sport?
Casketball
2011 is Just Around the Corner
We are busy planning for the 2011 season and are so excited about the many events, classes and workshops that weve already scheduled. If youre organized enough to have a 2011 calendar started, please mark April 2 for our veggie and fruit gardening class. Learn how to start your own seeds, as well as the what, when, where, and why to plant. The class will be at 10 AM and immediately after, you can purchase seeds and plant them up right here in the greenhouse. Well provide FREE SOIL AND CLEAN UP THE MESS. What a way to kick off your gardening season after a long Wisconsin winter.
In April we will host our annual Community Egg Hunt and Earth/Arbor Day celebrations. As spring progresses, well have numerous herbal classes, container workshops, demonstrations and much, much more to help you gear up for gardening. Watch for additions to the schedule as spring gets closer, by checking our website.
Your patronage and support have made it possible for us to be able to have so many free classes and educational opportunities. We are always open to ideas, so feel free to contact us with them at ed@americasbestflowers.com
What did one ghost say to the other ghost?
Do you believe in people?
Amazing Panoramic Pictures from Utah!
Fall color takes on new meaning with these amazing shots. Be sure to use your mouse to move the screen around for the full effect.
Whats Count Draculas favorite holiday?
Fangsgiving
Its Halloweek for all Facebook Fans
In celebration of Halloween Jesse has something special planned for each day this week. Please visit often.
Whats a vampires favorite fast food?
A guy with very high blood pressure
Bonnie’s Kitchen
Goblins Magic Nut Cake
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups pumpkin
- ½ cup water, or more
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 2 ¼ cups sugar
- 1 ½ t baking soda
- 1 ¼ t salt
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- ¾ t nutmeg
- ¾ t cinnamon
- 1 cup raisins
- ½ cup walnuts, chopped
- 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 3 butter
- 1 t vanilla
- 2 cups confectioners sugar
Directions
Beat together eggs, pumpkin, oil and water. Then add flour, sugar, soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mix well. Add raisins and walnuts. Pour into buttered and floured pans; 2 loaf pans or 1 bundt pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of the cake comes out clean. Cool. Beat together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and confectioners sugar for icing. Frost cake(s), sprinkle with additional chopped walnuts if desired.
Halloween Bloody Baked Rats

- 2 lbs ground beef
- ½ onion, chopped
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1 (1.25 oz.) packet meatloaf seasoning mix
- 1 c cubed Cheddar cheese
- 3 (10 oz.) cans tomato sauce
- 1 c white sugar
- 1 T Worcestershire sauce
- 1 c uncooked spaghetti, broken into fourths
- ½ carrot, cut into 1/8 thick slices
- 1 T frozen green peas
Directions
Preheat oven to 350° In large bowl, combine the ground beef, onion, egg, bread crumbs and meatloaf seasoning. Use your hands to mix until well blended. Measure out 1/3 cupfuls of the meat mixture and mold around a cube of cheese like a meatball. Shape into a point at one end and lengthen the body a bit of rolling between your hands. Place your rat into a shallow baking dish, and continue with the remaining meat. Insert pieces of uncooked spaghetti into the rounded end of the rats to make tails.
In a medium bowl, stir together the tomato sauce, sugar and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over the rats in the dish and cover the dish with a lid or aluminum foil.
Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven. Uncover the dish, and continue to bake for another 20-30 minutes, basting occasionally with the sauce to glaze the rats.
While the rats finish baking, heat the peas and carrots in a small bowl in the microwave for about 15 seconds.
Carefully transfer the rats to a serving platter so that their delicate tails dont fall off. Press peas into the pointy end to make eyes, and insert carrot slices to make ears. Spoon some of the tomato sauce around them and serve.
What does the papa ghost say to his family when driving?
Fasten your sheet belts.
Why do vampires need mouthwash?
They have bat breath.
Why did the vampire go to the orthodontist?
To improve his bite.
What is a vampires favorite mode of transportation?
A blood vessel.

Edward Knapton says Keep on Smiling!
Sec – Treasurer Berry Hill Farms, Inc.
DBA Americas Best Flowers Garden Center
4311 Vilas Hope Road
Cottage Grove, WI 53527
608-222-2269 Fax 608-222-1234 Cell 608-698-5627