Category: Iowa
Washington, Iowa, the town I was born in!
Nosalgia: Iowa the state where the corn grows tall! Just visited last weekend, and the corn is just getting a good start. Good to be “home” again! A great time with friends and relatives!
There are probably 150+ deer antlers on this entrance to someone’s place. This was West of Flori, Iowa.
A morning view of a farm, which has greeted us this weekend, while staying with friends in Iowa.
My Aunt!
As I was passing through Fairfield, Iowa, this mural caught my eye, so I pulled into the parking lot, to capture this unique “puzzling” mural! I don’t know if it was painted by my friend, Rusty Baker, but it compares to his works, in 200 some cities around the world! Thanks to a comment I now know it was painted by Ella Yates!
How many of you remember using the hay fork in the center of the photo? On the farm in Iowa, where I grew up, we used that kind of fork to lift up eight small hay bales into the hay mow at one time!
A very bad impersonation of the real deal by a well known painter from Iowa, which incidentally, is where I am from! Ignore the post on the railing that looks like a drumstick! 🙂
Dear Blogger friends, Susan nominated me for Versatile Blogger award! Here is a link to her blog: Â https://rhythminlife.net/2017/05/01/the-rose/
Susan, I am honored to have been chosen. I have so many blogs I follow, I don’t know where to start in nominating any of them for the Versatile Blogger award.
Some facts about me:
- I was born and raised in Kalona, Iowa, and then going on to Harrisonburg, Virginia for college studies.
- Met my wife there, and we were married between my 3rd year of college, and my 4th year (Internship in Medical Technology).
- Worked for 8.5 years in the Immunopathology Lab at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics before taking a position as School Principal in Northwestern Ontario.
- While in Ontario, I acquired my private pilots license and flew some 440 hours (Most of the landings on lakes with a Luscombe) before moving to Ohio in 1992.
- I spent 8.5 years in Bangladesh doing member care for several families
- I have knitted 3 sweaters, love crossword puzzles, chess, hiking, travel and photography.
- Have a lovely wife, two sons, and three grandsons, who are teenagers.
- Bengali curries are at the top of my list of favorite foods.
- I do remember when the hula hoop was invented, and actually collected a blood specimen from the inventor for analysis, when he was in the hospital!
- I learned to use the “slide rule” which was made obsolete with the invention of the calculator.
