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Archive for July, 2007

How We Met

Posted in christianity, dating, enjoying life, faith, life, love, personal, relationships, sex on July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

    I love to hear the stories of how couples meet!   I thought it would be fun to include our story here on the blog.
      Growing up I  (DM) was  shy ….so shy, I can count on one hand the number of conversations I had with girls throughout   high school .  Laugh all you want, when [...]

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Austin City Limit’s/ Iowa Style

Posted in apple orchard, bed and breakfast, christianity, country living, faith, life, life in the country, music festival, personal on July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »

     Walk into The Surf Ballroom  ( Clear Lake Iowa)  and you will be overwhelmed by the  number of autographed  photos of musical legends stretching back into the 1950’s.    We were there in 2005 to see Derick St Holmes (Ted Nuget/ Stranglehold)   on stage w/ my roofing buddy Al R.  playing backup base guitar . 
click here to hear what we heard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7dR8-3Nc0M&mode=related&search=
     I told [...]

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There’s a little Crocodile Dundee In All Of Us Here Mate

Posted in christianity, country living, faith, life, life in the country, personal on July 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »

  If you saw the  first  Crocodile Dundee movie, you’ll remember what he was like when he came to New York City right?    He would say ”hi” to strangers, start conversations  w/ hookers, the taxi drivers, the bell hop,  you name it.   At the end of the day, he was still Mic Dundee.  The Big Apple  didn’t cause him to [...]

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Old Military Road Field Research Begins In Earnest

Posted in Dillon's furrow, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, country living, faith, life, life in the country, old military road, personal on July 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »

    What an awesome day we had today.  I literally felt like I  stepped back in time.  We spent the day  looking for traces of the 160 yr old Military road route  that I hope to retrace by foot in 2008.    I wrote in  detail about this trip here:   http://hearttoheart.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/planning-my-walkabout-on-the-trail-of-lyman-dillon/
     Today we hit paydirt.  We discovered a plaque on a [...]

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