Silent Saturday

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Questers

I belong to Questers and yesterday we went to Jan’s house. Here is a video of the garden and her home. Simply amazing. By the way, Questers are collectors of antiques, collectibles and history. Thanks for visiting Debworks! Got a minute? Know anyone who is looking to workshift? I’m interviewing! Visit http://www.debrareneebrown.com

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TownsEnd Winery

Townsend Winery is now open for business. Vern and Judy Harper have put over ten years into building their winery and harvesting the grapes. They are located at 2138 160th St in Hansell Iowa. www.townsendwinery.com 641-456-2836 townsendwinery@wbfrec.com You are invited to join them for a wine tasting at your convenience on Friday evening, Saturday or…

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Developing Relationships – Good Marketing

Image by Geir Halvorsen via Flickr I work closely with my local chamber of commerce and local newspapers. I joined the Chamber and attend as many activities as I can. I also interviewed the editor of Hampton’s paper and posted it here. I made friends with Rick at the Iowa Falls paper and he now…

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Social Media: A Way To Use The Internet To Market Your Business

Session One: Free Introductory Class September 15 5:30 to 6:30 pm with questions after It’s virtually impossible to ignore. Everywhere you look, people are talking about Social Networking and Social Media. Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Linked In – just for starters. Facebook has 200 million members.You Tube visitors are viewing 13 billion videos a month.Linked In…

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Are You An Evangelist?

This past week my computer was in the hospital. She’s feeling better now. I’m finally recovering too. It’s hard to be without my lifeline! This week I did a presentation for the Historical Society’s annual meeting. It was pretty cool – we showed a video of a man acting as Leander Reeve, the man who…

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Preserving Our Past, Creating Our Future

I am giving a presentation to the town on the Old Stone House. We advertised it as a multi media event. The Franklin County Historical Society has it’s annual meeting and always has a program and its open to the public. This year we are doing some new things and change can be a scary…

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Pictures for a Saturday

my cat, Twin. He never comes out when people are around. Except for Kev and me.Tomatoes in the kitchen window turning, pretty flowers outside one of the flowers in my garden look close, there’s a crane there looking inside the tree onions in my garden (and weeds) pink lilly at Judy’s house poppies – aren’t…

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County Fair Rules!

I spent the day at the fair. I walked around and took pictures. I volunteered for 3 hours at the Democratic booth (you don’t live for 30 years in Chicago and leave as anything other than a Democrat). I had a light repast (hamburger, Doritos and a Pepsi – plus real homemade ice cream using…

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Sunday Morning Musing

I live in a county of 10,000 people. I like it here. I had lived in Chicago and enjoyed it there too. Home is still Geneva Iowa though. I have fun visiting Chicago and love the restaurants, and friends and museums and coffee everywhere. But there is something to be said for the quiet mornings,…

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