Posted in Iowa, Iowa History, bed and breakfast, christianity, country living, enjoying life, faith, farming, humor, life, life in the country, personal, random, religion, spirituality on March 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down. Pigs treat us as equals.” Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill had a love for pigs in later life. I’ve heard 2 accounts of him and his love for them…when he wanted to unwind he would go out and talk to his pig, and [...]
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Posted in Dillon's furrow, History, Iowa, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, country living, enjoying life, faith, life, old military road, perseverance, personal, random, religion, sex, spirituality on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Do you have any baseball fans or stamp collectors in your life who you have a hard time finding a gift for ? We need to talk. I think we can help each other out.
I have in my possession the perfect gift for your special person. Here’s the deal…I am doing a research project on local history. You can [...]
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Posted in History, Iowa, Iowa History, christianity, country living, enjoying life, faith, farming, life, life in the country, perseverance, random, religion, spirituality on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Today we’re in the middle of another Winter storm. At 6 AM this morning it was rain changing to ice- the thermometer said it was 20 degrees. By 9 the rain was changing into large snow flakes. which we’re due to get between 4 to 10 more inches of along with the winds.
As [...]
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Posted in History, Iowa, Iowa History, apple orchard, christianity, country living, enjoying life, faith, farming, life, life in the country, personal, random, religion, spirituality on February 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m working on a local history project. Friday I was in the library looking through old microfilm going back to 1869. The following article caught my eye:
Iowa Apples The Best
It caught my eye because my wife and I planted a small orchard (120 trees) in 2002-2003. 2006 was our first good crop [...]
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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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Posted in Iowa History, apple orchard, christianity, country living, dating, enjoying life, faith, humor, life, life in the country, love, music festival, personal, random, relationships, sex on November 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A paper trail. I’m leaving a paper trail for my children. Chances are most of what I write won’t be read by them until I’m gone, which is fine. I came across a fun activity from Debi. Debi got the idea from Writer Chic Take the letters of the alphabet and associate each one [...]
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Posted in History, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, enjoying life, faith, humor, life, old military road, personal, random on September 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
September 15th 2007 I walked from Old Capital in Iowa City to Solon Iowa via Hwy 1 in preparation for a 100 mile walk I’d like to take Fall of 2008, retracing Old Military Road and Lyman Dillon. One of the things I did to pass my time was to pick up empty beer cans. I [...]
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Posted in History, Iowa History, christianity, country living, dating, enjoying life, faith, life, love, personal, relationships on August 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Early on, Chuck H. told me, “You can spend your money on a marriage counselor or a date.” August 11th and 12th we took a road trip to Harlan Iowa. We went on the trip with a dear friend H.J. who wanted us to see the little mermaid as we passed through Kimballton Iowa. That portion of the state [...]
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“Though the old building did good service for the county for some eighteen years, yet it was not free from the gnawing of the tooth of time.”
I’m 49 yrs old and for the past 4 months have been obsessed with delving into family and local history. It has become a passion. Being the analytical [...]
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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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