Just in case you needed an excuse to swing by DQ and treat yourself to a blizzard… From UIHC… BRRRRRRR! Blizzards in August? Ice cream fans can help children treated at University of Iowa Children’s Hospital by visiting their local Dairy Queen on August 8. During this day, participating Dairy Queen locations will donate proceeds […]

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A few weeks back I was helping my brother set a few fence posts in his pasture. Here’s what the corner post hole looked like when I was done digging…. The hole was just under four feet deep and full of water. Now compare that to what we dug through while putting the pasture fence […]

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When I mentioned in passing on Monday that we took the kiddos to the drive-in for a movie over the weekend I didn’t think it was that big of deal, but judging by some of the feedback I received I guess the drive-in is worth a little bit of discussion. Earlier last week, the DW’s […]

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It’s the end of July, so I thought I’d share a few pictures of where the garden’s at. With a few exceptions, things aren’t doing too bad with the goofy weather. Despite cutting the red raspberries back this spring to skip the summer crop and encourage a heavier fall crop, we still have a bunch […]

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With a week of weather that felt more like the end of September than the end of July, we had a weekend packed full of things to do – the county fair, a movie at the drive-in, more work in the kitchen, and catching up in the garden to name a few – which means […]

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When planting the garden this spring, the DW and I thought it was a safe bet to go heavy on peas, carrots, and green beans given Peanut’s diet. So far, we missed on the peas – Peanut doesn’t care for them pureed and though she loves to pick them up and eat them whole, her […]

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I occasionally follow a garden blogger who has come up with a pretty creative way of unloading extra zucchini by combining it with the old juvenile game of ding-dong-ditch. Simply sneak up to the neighbor’s front door, drop off a few zucchini, ring the door bell, and take off. Tempting… very tempting. Traditionally, there’s three […]

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For once, someone else in our household was “the patient” instead of Peanut. A few weeks ago Potato Boy suffered a right of passage in a sense, and had his tonsils and adenoids removed. Our suspicion that his tonsils were enlarged was confirmed by the ENT doctor when he first looked into the boy’s throat […]

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Apparently this got a lot of attention earlier this year – leave it to me to just be stumbling across it now… This article was originally printed in the Montgomery County Chronicle, Thursday February, 21, 2013. Click here to see the article as originally posted on the Chronicle’s website. ‘Just’ a Farm Kid Is a […]

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It’s hard to believe, but Peanut’s about to turn 1 (on Saturday). What better reason do you need to have a party? The DW and I thought this would be the perfect time to thank the friends and family that have helped us so much throughout the past year. So a park was reserved. Food […]

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