Monthly Archives: January 2017

Happy Birthday Ma!

The birthday week continues for Mom As the week was going on, it seemed like Mom was celebrating in one way or another all week long. And in my opinion, well that’s pretty cool. There were card buddies that she … Continue reading

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Winter in Iowa

The weather has not been the best lately but I guess it’s winter in  Iowa. It’s been snowing and a cold north wind has been blowing through and when the sun shines you just kind of look out the window a lot and smile … Continue reading

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Bucket List – 2017, Yoga Classes

I’ve been looking for quite awhile to go to a Yoga class and well since it was on my bucket list for 2017 I needed to see what I could do about that. And guess what? I actually signed up … Continue reading

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Farm Animals

I’ve been so busy making soap lately, that I decided that I better check on my chickens. Daryl has been taking care of them these past few weeks, but I wanted to see how everyone was doing.  Now I couldn’t go … Continue reading

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My Appointment Tonight

I knew that Daryl was going to go to the dentist soon and when I saw an appointment on the calendar for a dentist appointment – well it just made sense it was his.  So as the month goes on … Continue reading

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Travel continues to be icy

It’s been one of the worst winters in a very long time with all the ice and rain that we’ve been having. I mean if someone doesn’t think that the weather has changed over the past 30 years, well I … Continue reading

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Making soap on the weekend

Well I still have my cold and with going on week #3, I realized that I don’t have time to feel better. I have to get some soap made.  So when I woke up this morning I told myself that … Continue reading

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Getting a cold

I guess I should have titled this post – I’ve got a cold! It’s one of those colds when you can taste your fillings in your teeth and your hair hurts. Now seriously I don’t get sick too often at … Continue reading

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Let’s go skating

Yesterday I officially called it that I am sick and tired of Winter! Yup, I’m done with it.  But I don’t think I could not have picked a worse time because it’s raining and snowing today and our farm yard … Continue reading

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Our dogs

I’ve talked before on how our dogs just hate birds, and I mean HATE birds, so when I see the Bald Eagles flying around our farm this afternoon while I was making soap, well I just knew what I had … Continue reading

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