I have a CD in my car that I love. It has become the sound­track of my life. Quite some  time ago I was telling my old­est daugh­ter that when­ever these songs play, my mind instantly goes to my life, replay­ing scenes from my child­hood, Christmas’s, school, friends, grow­ing up… The songs are instru­men­tals, the […]

Sev­eral weeks ago I sent an email to all my kids and their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers ask­ing for their input on what color to paint my stairs. The house is very old, the stairs very nar­row, and although hav­ing them stripped and stained was an option, I was pretty sure I was going to paint them, […]

I think that every­one who is spout­ing the words “social­ized med­i­cine” needs to get it right. Social­ized med­i­cine is when the gov­ern­ment has com­plete con­trol over every aspect of your health care. They employee the doc­tors,  run the hos­pi­tals etc.  With the new health care reform plan you still get to pick your doc­tors, pick […]

I hope I am not the only per­son who, lately, writes every­thing in text mode. Notes to myself or hus­band, blogs, face­book, basi­cally any­thing that I need to write. Funny thing is, even though I cringe when I reread stuff that can’t be changed and real­ize my mis­take, I also real­ize that most peo­ple reading […]

I really don’t know if houses in town need sump pumps. Here on the farm we do. It is basi­cally an open well inside our home where water that col­lects around the out­side walls of the house can drain thus keep­ing water from com­ing thru your walls and the foun­da­tion col­laps­ing. When it reaches a […]

Mud, fog, snow, slop, mud, drifts, pud­dles, fog, mud, stand­ing water, snow, mud.… This is what the kids have to look for­ward to when they visit this week­end. I have extra laun­dry deter­gent on hand. Since they are com­ing regard­less of the con­di­tions, can I take this as proof pos­i­tive they are com­ing to see US […]

Here is my life the last few days.… The National Weather Ser­vice Des Moines, IA 6:31 pm CST, Tue., Mar. 9, 2010 … DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT… A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. * SHORT TERM TRENDS… CONDITIONS ARE BEGINNING TO IMPROVE IN FAR SOUTHERN IOWA […]

Appar­ently I am the only one wor­ried. Today they reported another earth­quake in Turkey. 6.6 Haiti Chicago Chili Turkey HELLO????  The earth­quake in Chicago, felt in Iowa, was on a lit­tle known fault and now it shakes? After the huge one in Haiti? And then there is a big­ger one in Chili? And this week […]

It has hap­pened enough times now that I have to take it for real, espe­cially since I believe in spir­its, that there is an “old woman” liv­ing in the hayloft of our barn. Our 5 year old grand­daugh­ter loves our hayloft. LOVES IT!. Says every time she goes up there “grandma, this is the best place […]

Because we are spend­ing around $500 every 6 weeks for propane, I decided to call and ask the com­pany if the amount we were going thru was “nor­mal”. Now…I know we have an old farm­house, but it has also been rein­su­lated. I keep the ther­mo­stat at 60 dur­ing the day, 62–64 in evening and 58 […]