This is big news here. Munchkin grand­baby is almost com­pletely potty trained. Thanks to Dora, Cin­derella, My Lit­tle Ponies (under­wear for all of you non-kid peo­ple) and a focused, will not take no for an answer, day care lady. Mom would have kept her in dia­pers until she was 20 but the day care lady […]

Now that I have set­tled into this blog­ging thing again, I am going to take a minute to catch peo­ple up on the news around here. Both my daugh­ters now have 2 dogs and 2 cats each. A house­ful to be sure. Think my old­est daugh­ter ini­tially regret­ted puppy num­ber 2 but a few puppy […]

This is odd. Yes­ter­day I had to go have my wed­ding ring cut off my fin­ger. The day before a wasp had stung my fin­ger but it didn’t swell until that night. I know now why ani­mals chew off a foot or arm. My fin­ger itched so much I would gladly have cut it off. […]

To what­ever weather gods had their hand in the “low pres­sure” meet­ing “high pres­sure” we, here in Iowa, thank you. There has been a pre­pon­der­ance of clouds for the last three days. Being able to see from here to for­ever across the fields has allowed us spec­tac­u­lar cloud for­ma­tions. Today, rid­ing along the miles, I […]