Let’s dance to the song they’re playin’ on the radio

September 16, 2009 | Family

The girls started dance lessons Monday. Whee!

I’ll ride the rollercoaster or the carousel

September 15, 2009 | Family,Iowa,Stuff

We went to Adventureland on Saturday. I’ve had tickets since before school let out for the summer. We got there just before the park closes later this month. It had trains, planes, boats, a great carousel and several rollercoasters. It’s a great place, and the kids had a blast.

Howdy neighbor, happy harvest, may your forty acres soon be fields of clover

September 14, 2009 | Iowa

There’s this place in town called Heritage Park. It’s a “historical village” with old buildings, steam engines and tractors, and it preserves old-fashioned farming processes (threshing grain, baling hay, making ice cream) with demonstrations and exhibits. It wasn’t officially open, but we were there at the old Norwegian Lutheran church (moved in from the country) for a potluck dinner with the local Sons of Norway. The kids got to venture out a bit and play. The park will be open this week, so we’ll try to get there. The kids want to see the train. I hope there’s a train. We saw tracks, anyway.

And all around me a voice was calling, this land was made for you and me

September 11, 2009 | Iowa

Remember Keep America Beautiful? And this guy?

So why do I have to pick up trash in my yard? I live in the country. Don’t make me go near those cornstalks.

Listen. You don’t even have to be literate. Just look at the fries box. See where it tells you to toss your trash? NOT out the car window.

C’mon. Don’t make that guy cry anymore, huh?

There’s no way to escape the sunrise and the sunset

September 10, 2009 | Iowa

Only two things that money can’t buy that’s true love and home grown tomatoes (and green peppers)

September 9, 2009 | Garden,Iowa

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme

September 8, 2009 | Garden,Iowa

I made 19 pints of tomato sauce to put in the freezer. I used tomatoes, green peppers and onions from our garden and fresh herbs.

Let us make a pledge to meet in September and seal it with a kiss

Iowa

I took this picture in October last year.

That tree started changing colors already this year in August.

The summer greens (oh, how I love the summer greens) are turning to yellows and browns. Gah! No! I’m not ready for winter!

Tilting at Windmills, chasing a dream through greenfields

September 7, 2009 | Iowa

I’ll be making tracks for an Iowa sunset

September 4, 2009 | Iowa