Based on this photo (as of Monday afternoon) I’m not sure if forecasting has gotten super accurate, or if they just wanted to cover all the options. Either way, I’m prepared for 1 inch… or 10 inches of snow.

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It was a cold weekend… Oddly enough, it was perfect to start some of the flowers for this spring. The last few years, we’ve been starting our own sweet potato slips and moving them out the the garden. We normally plant two or three slips and end up with a few meals of sweet potatoes […]

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Our bedtime routine is pretty well set the last couple of years. A half hour or so before “lights out” for Lulu, it’s into bed for reading time. (Since Peanut sleeps in most mornings and still takes a nap most afternoons, her routine is similar, just a little later in the evening.) Over the years […]

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#1 Visiting with Mark #2 Everybody Home for Easter #3 More Chickens #4 A Rainy Day at Adventureland #5 Electrical Upgrade #6 A Muddy Mess #7 Photo Op #8 Quilts of Valor #9 Another Project #10 Helping Out #11 Unwinding on Vacation #12 Shaping Up #13 A Different Type of School #14 Group Hug #15 […]

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Shortly before Christmas, Peanut had her quarterly check up at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. The quick summary: Peanut is doing phenomenal! Maybe the most telling sign is the progress on her growth chart. When Peanut was born, and for several months after, she was in the bottom 1% on the growth chart for […]

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We’d been waiting for a great snowy December day to get a couple photos of the kids for our Christmas card. We finally gave up on that over the weekend and while it was raining outside we rounded everyone up inside for “just one good shot.” If you can remember a couple years ago you’ll […]

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Ah… yes… it just won’t dry out and it just won’t freeze. (The car was clean two days earlier.) If this keeps up, we’ll have to change the name of this site to The Mud Road Home.

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We received our first taste of winter over the weekend with a fast moving snow storm that left us with just under a foot of snow. As far as snow storms go, the timing on this one was about perfect. The snow really didn’t start accumulating until after everyone was home Friday evening and wrapped […]

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We’re collecting just shy of 4 dozen eggs every day now. While most of those eggs look one just like the other, there’s still a bit of variation. Then there’s days like the one last week when there’s more than just a bit of variation.

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The porch plan was simple: new paint, new floor, done. And we were well on our way. The floor was in. The trim was back on. The DW was painting away. Then it rained. The next thing you know, I’m looking at this: Let’s back up. We believe the room was originally just an open […]

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