For many years, Clarence and Bonnie Pittz have been painting a hay bale at their farm.  It’s a friendly pumpkin on the highway as you head toward Platteville.  This year, they added a sign “HAYLLO.”

Clarence and Bonnie have some company this year.  So far there are a dozen decorated bales around town, and there are more on the way!  We’ll keep you posted.

The owners of the Walker House, Dan and Kathy Vaillancourt, are offering a pasty dinner to the first person to correctly guess what theirs will be. So far, thirty-seven people have weighed in via Facebook (click here to like us on Facebook) with most suggesting it be a ghost, but that’s the one thing the Vaillancourt are not going to do. They are adamant that the ghost has left the building.

So far, here is a lineup of the town’s decorated bales, with the most recent ones first:

Dodge Point Country Club –

Karen and Kevin Jorgenson –

Dean Clinic –

The Dahl Family –

The Hodan Center –

LorVic Lawn Care –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandstone –

St. Mary’s-St. Paul’s –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shake Rag Alley –

Mound City Bank –

Point Foods –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farmer’s Savings Bank

View Point Meat and Cheese

Book bales at the Library

High Street Sweets

and the one that started the hay bales rolling in town – the Pig at TonHAY’s Tap –

We noticed that Clarence and Bonnie Pittz are the only ones to the mount their bale on a flatbed with wheels.  Maybe they know something we don’t about the removal process.

If there are others out there and you would like them added to this post, e-mail a photo to highstreetbeat987@gmail.com.

– Contributed by the Hays