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Happy New Year! With 2013 wrapped up, I took a few moments to look back through a busy year – Peanut’s visits/stays at the UIHC, projects around the house, work in the garden, and just keeping up with the kiddos – it’s a little hard to believe how much we managed to squeeze into one […]

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I’ve been back in Iowa now for the last several days after spending a week in the Dominican Republic for my “real job” – the one that pays the bills, not the one with the job title of “Dad” – but I have been slacking on posts as well as projects I had planned to […]

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If you want to have some fun with some of your favorite websites travel to a developing country with your laptop and then try to visit them. Apparently, the IP address I’m using and the IP address which sent you an email overnight for “Cheap Prescription Drugs” may be one in the same…

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Just in case you need any more proof that the world is shrinking… earlier this morning I got on the elevator in my hotel with another gentleman. It was obvious in our greeting that we were both from the States and started a conversation on the local weather – it’s 85 here. The conversation quickly […]

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The DW and I often get asked by some of you how we manage to get as much done as what we do – the simple answer: there’s so much to do it’s pretty easy to just skim off the top. There’s so much more we just don’t get done. For example, while I was […]

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The DW and I have mentioned the Preemie Project and it’s role in Peanut’s stay at the Iowa Children’s Hospital NICU. In honor of National Prematurity Awareness Month, the Preemie Project is campaigning to raise $4,473 in November to support families in Iowa NICUs. Funds will be raised between November 1st and November 17 and […]

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It happened twice the last couple weeks. Late in the afternoon, over a spot in the yard, hundreds of dragonflies have gathered, swarmed, and then disappeared. The second time, I was able to catch a video. From what I’ve been told, they were most likely congregating to hunt and eat abundant insects that were also […]

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What good could come from you taking your iPod outside and risk having the dog eat it, I asked… So, I was wrong. Not too bad, not to bad at all. (Though the dog still has a hankering for a metallic apple.)

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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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