• Family/Friends,  Farming

    It’s Harvest Time!

    It’s Harvest time here in Iowa and all around the Midwest, which also means that allergies are acting up as well. The first day of Fall for us here in North Central Iowa was not sweater weather either. Nope; in fact, this week is 80 degree weather for us. Our sweater weather was last week. I had to make a quick trip to Walmart and right across the street is a bean field that was being harvested. If you know bean fields, you know that bean dust fills the air. I went in the store and came out about five minutes later. As I was driving home, I noticed that…

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  • Farming

    Farm wife in the making

    How I became a farm wife is a long journey. I was in my late 20’s, not married, when the idea of online dating was suggested to me. Back then, online dating was very new and something to be extremely cautious towards. (I would still be cautious about it today, but it’s much more common.) I had always dreamed and prayed I’d meet someone a more common way, like at church or in school. Not online. But, I decided to give it a try. Third times a charm The most common online dating site I knew of at the time was eHarmony. I subscribed to it for a while and…

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