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Last Night @ The Coffee House

Posted in Iowa, bed and breakfast, christianity, church, enjoying life, faith, house concerts, life, life in the country, music festival, personal, random, religion, spirituality on March 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »

     “I’ve lived in this town ten years… this is by far the most enjoyable thing I’ve  been to .”….  Steve
   
       I’m not sure where to begin…the evening was magical. 
      We rented  the Java Jones  coffee house  for the evening.  Lou  Brown, Bob and Aimee put on another excellent show of original  music.  As sometimes happens [...]

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Cultivating Resilience In An Apple Orchard

Posted in Iowa, apple orchard, bed and breakfast, christianity, church, country living, enjoying life, faith, farming, life, life in the country, perseverance, personal, random, spirituality on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

     I suspected something in the soil was killing our young apple trees.  Between 2002 and 2003 we planted 120 trees.  In 2004 they started dying…seemed to be in somewhat of a pattern, so I called the  County Extension service- they sent out a field rep to help identify the problem.  We took soil samples, [...]

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Bigger and Better Is Picking Up Steam

Posted in Dillon's furrow, History, Iowa, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, church, country living, enjoying life, faith, humor, life, old military road, perseverance, personal, random, spirituality on January 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »

 

        That my friends is a 5 dollar Gold piece…When I get that coin (not if but when)  I will have crossed the line in the Bigger and Better game I’m playing.    I have installed a new “tab” at the top of my blog page (bigger and better/ care to make a trade?) please [...]

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Grandma’s Rye Bread

Posted in Art, christianity, church, country living, enjoying life, faith, life, perseverance, personal, random on December 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »

 
      Oma is German for Grandma.   Oma came to Ellis Island from  Germany at 19.  One of my strongest memories of her is her  rye bread.  Before she died she showed me how to make it.  The recipe was in her head,  I still remember the two of us  calculating  the ratios of flour,  potato water, honey, yeast.  
     Making [...]

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Dark-horse/ dark-hors

Posted in christianity, church, enjoying life, faith, home church, life, personal, random on November 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »

    We went  out for pizza  last night with Paul and Hannah, during the course of our conversation I compared myself  spiritually to a horse running on the open range vs. a domesticated horse  stuck in a stall.    The word picture in my mind came straight from a little book I’d read 20 years ago  called [...]

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