Posted by Becky @ 6:00 am | 2 Comments And the baby girls turn 5
April 29, 2009 | Birthday, Family, Stuff
You were so tiny. I can’t hold you in my hands anymore, but you are forever in my heart. Happy birthday to my beautiful daughters!
Breaking in the lefse grill
April 25, 2009 | Family, Norway, Stuff
Yes, I got a lefse grill last year.
Shiny, huh? No, I haven’t used it. Well, I hadn’t used it until my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and niece were here from Norway. Here we are (MIL & me) in all our aproned glory. And, yes, I’m pretending to know what’s going on.
Here’s the lefse recipe.
Here’s everything else.
Yum!
Books: Growing up Country
April 24, 2009 | Books, Iowa
I got to meet Carol Bodensteiner at the Talbot Belmond Public Library on Tuesday night. I had her book already but hadn’t read it yet. I was compiling a list of Iowa authors for an article and found that she’d be speaking about 45 minutes away. I couldn’t pass that up, could I?
Bodensteiner talked about her book Growing up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, and she read some passages that had us laughing out loud. She listened as we told some of our own stories of mean chickens, 10-cent movies and amazing mothers. Bodensteiner is warm, charming and funny. I’m reading her book next.
Here she is signing books.
I’ll post the list of authors after the article’s published.
Update 2 on robin’s nest
April 23, 2009 | Iowa, Spring
Now there are four eggs. Will we have five? Stay tuned.
Update on robin’s nest
April 22, 2009 | Iowa, Spring
This just in … there are three eggs now.
The Internet says a robin’s egg will hatch in 14 days. So we’ve marked up the calendar and count every day.
Hellllllllllloooooooooooooo, Spring!
April 21, 2009 | Iowa, Spring, Weather
Rain’s on the way.
Everything’s coming up tulips.
A robin’s nest.
A robin.
One egg.
Two eggs.
Hard at work.
Excuse me while I Google, “How long does it take a robin’s egg to hatch?”
Buh-bye, Winter
April 20, 2009 | Iowa, Weather, Winter
So long, farewell, aufwiedersehn, adeiu, adeiu, adeiu, to yieu and yieu and yieu … don’t let the door hit you on the way out … see ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya … now, go take a long vacation and don’t come back until December. I hear Tampa’s nice this time of year.
Step right up and don’t be shy, because you will not believe your eyes
April 19, 2009 | Stuff
Apparently, someone enjoys an audience.
I held you in my castle in the sky
April 11, 2009 | Family, Iowa
How can you pass up a place called Pilot Knob State Park? We couldn’t. We visited today. It’s the second-highest point in Iowa. (The highest point is Hawkeye Point in Osceola County, in case you wondered.)
