Category Archives: Places to visit

Hurry and Wait…

Today was the Solo & Ensemble contest in one of the local schools and William wasn’t sure what time he was supposed to perform. It wasn’t such a big deal, and with Daryl and Kyle in Nebraska for Kyle’s Chinese … Continue reading

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Looking for treasures

Since I wasn’t able to get that corn planter at the auction yesterday and I was all cleaned up and everything, I decided to call my sister on the way home and see if she was still interested in a … Continue reading

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Day 2 – The training continues

I sure wasn’t in the mood to work on my 5K training today, but I did end up going on the treadmill after all. It was only the second day of this training and I thought it would be really … Continue reading

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Phelps Park

William’s trombone broke last week at the Honor Jazz Band Festival, and even though the electrical tape worked that night – it needed to get fixed. He bought it from a music shop in Decorah, and my goal today was … Continue reading

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What a Great Weekend!

After chores on Saturday morning, we packed our bags and off to Minneapolis we went with my brother and his wife. We were all going to a dinner theater at the Chanhassen to watch the performance of  Hairspray. Daryl and … Continue reading

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Not really a productive day

I did start out the day with my faithful list of things that I wanted to get done and as the morning was heading to noon, I was able to get quite a bit of them checked off. Then I … Continue reading

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Oliver Tractors

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Iowa’s Largest Frying Pan

After the football game last night we went to the Country Club to talk about the game and have a few beers with some of the other parents. Well we started to talk about things that everyone should see at … Continue reading

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Iowa State Fair and Cubs Game

Yesterday morning we woke up and was trying to think of things that we could do for the day. Some of the first ideas were to work on the farm … and then Daryl had come up with the idea … Continue reading

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Spam’s the word Man!

After church today I convinced Daryl to go with me to the Spam museum in Austin, Minnesota. I’m not sure why I always wanted to go to this museum but every time we would be going to Rochester or Minneapolis … Continue reading

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