Articles

Wordle

There’s this neat little website called www.wordle.net.   If you go there, you can either enter a bunch of words or enter a website and they’ll pull words out of it and create a neat graphic.  You can change colors, fonts, layout and language.  Why not give it a try?   Here’s a few things…

Read More about Wordle

Harvest Tour 2nd Year

We’re hosting our 2nd Annual Bloggers Harvest Tour.  Franklin County Farm Bureau, Latham Hi-Tech Seeds and Franklin County Tourism have teamed up to bring bloggers to our county.  We’ll feed them, entertain them, show them around and just generally have a great time while they are here. Why do we do it?  That’s simple, we…

Read More about Harvest Tour 2nd Year

Move it or lose it

I went to the gym this morning and took my 3 times a week class – Strengthen and Tone.  It would be better called ‘Cardio with Weights and Jumping Around’.  Strengthen and Tone appealed to me – I need to get stronger and the Lord knows I need toning. But life is pretty funny. Cause…

Read More about Move it or lose it

King/Vilsack Debate September 17, 2012

Our local Greater Franklin County Chamber of Commerce hosted the King/Vilsack debate at the historic Windsor Theatre.  This is for the Senate seat in District 4 in Iowa. It was a lesson in local politics for many people.  Enjoy the debate – and see how very different both sides are.

Read More about King/Vilsack Debate September 17, 2012

Comment Please

I just spent about 10 minutes reading a few blog posts.  One was particularly poignant and I started to post a comment on Facebook where the writer had originally put the link. Then I stopped and remembered how important it is to the blogger that you comment ON THE BLOG. I went back, and put…

Read More about Comment Please

A Garden View

The birds outside my window make the leaves of the trees wiggle in the sunshine.  I see flashes of yellow finches and happy go lucky barn swallows flit and fly here and there.  There’s a beautiful old bench, with plenty of room to sit.  See the white flowers, and the red tree?  I can’t see…

Read More about A Garden View

Saturdays are made for reading

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”- Confucius Saturday mornings belong to me.  Of course these mornings start about 5 am and go until 9 ish – or until a prior appointment is made.  I drink coffee at home, listen to…

Read More about Saturdays are made for reading

Small Biz Friday: Grounded

There’s a little place in Clarion, Iowa called Grounded.  You can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner there. Mel and I went for brunch one Sunday.  There was an area buffet – potatoes, gravy, hot beef and more. Of course you wanted a muffin or scone or bread pudding – and they had it.  Coffee! I…

Read More about Small Biz Friday: Grounded

Need Ideas? Conduct a Quest!

Barbara Winters is joyfully jobless, and one of my favorite people to listen very close to.  Today she is guest blogging for us.  You can follow her at www.joyfullyjobless.com During the Middle Ages, knights set out in droves in search of the Holy Grail. Many of these quests lasted for years and, as you may…

Read More about Need Ideas? Conduct a Quest!

Small Biz Friday: Shaggy Baggy

I was surfing Facebook one night and ran across a picture of an extremely cool, hand sewn bag — asian inspired, padded, perfect for an iPad.  JUST what I needed! It was on sale on the Thursday night special, on an etsy store called Shaggy Baggy.  I went to the website, browsed for a long…

Read More about Small Biz Friday: Shaggy Baggy