Monthly Archives: May 2012

Celebrating report cards

We used to pay the boys $$ for good grades on their report cards, but then it just got way too expensive (which is really a good problem to have). So we thought about what we should do instead, and … Continue reading

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What beautiful weather we had today!

As you can tell by now the weather in Iowa gets a little crazy. Someone said that if you don’t like how the weather is, just wait a couple of hours and it’ll be something different. I think they hit … Continue reading

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What a wonderful day

The boys, Alli, and I, spent the day on the river and was it ever nice! I didn’t even listen to the weather forecast because I knew that this is probably the only day that we could go. It was … Continue reading

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Memorial Day and Being Brave

We were planning a big day at the ball park and it would have been perfect if William could have come with us. But he had made commitments to help with the Memorial Day programs at the local towns, so … Continue reading

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Too Funny!

So I went outside this afternoon and noticed that something looked just a little different. I just couldn’t put my finger on it and then I found out why it looked weird. So just take a look at why it … Continue reading

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Weather was changing

I think there’s a lot of different ways to know that the weather is going to change on the farm. I remember one time when Daryl’s relatives were visiting, the flies were biting so bad, I said that it looks … Continue reading

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No kayaking today for us

We waited up until the last minute to decide if we were going to go kayaking on the Upper Iowa River or not. But the weather so windy again (45 mph gusts) and they were predicting a storm to blow … Continue reading

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Another crazy windy day

I had some errands to run in town this morning and I didn’t really realize how crazy the wind was until I got home. They said it was gusting up to 30 mph today. Yuck! So I took all my … Continue reading

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Garden in .. finally

We worked up the ground in the garden maybe 4 weeks ago and by this week the weeds were in full force. With getting ready for everything else, we knew that the garden was just going to have to wait. … Continue reading

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New farmer in the section

Well today was definitely a very weird day. I really wanted to do a ‘list’ but I thought.. noooooo, don’t do it! And I must say it was very, very weird without one. I spent more time watering the lawn that I’ve … Continue reading

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