Yesterday I finally got around to sorting papers and cleaning out my office files, and I stumbled across this recipe for a perfect Thanksgiving. And the recipe brought tears to my eyes. Our oldest granddaughter Emma brought this recipe to me last year when their family drove “over the river and through the woods” to […]
Baseball (and Sports In General) – Our Family’s Love Affair With Competition
Baseball (and competition in general) goes back generations in our family. And our recent trip to Indy got me thinking about the way sports can link one generation to the next. And the next. And now the NEXT! Peepaw and I both had relatives who played both college and even semi-pro sports, and I guess […]
Home Town Cafe – Millersburg, Iowa…It’s a GEM In The Heartland
Our summer Road Trips take us all over the Heartland…and some days I have no idea where we’ll end up. (That’s the beauty of being retired!) But recently I had no idea that a day trip to Des Moines would land us at the Home Town Cafe in Millersburg Iowa when dinnertime rolled around! You […]
Like Dorothy Said…There’s NO Place Like HOME…
We love spending time in Indy, but after a few days of hugs and catching up with our family there we were ready for the last leg of our snowbird journey. After spending five months away from Iowa it was time to leave for home. Before we packed up for that final leg of our […]
Meemaw’s Childhood Farm…Our GrandCamp Finale
Ever since our grandchildren were old enough to listen, I have shared stories about my life growing up on our Iowa farm. It was an idyllic childhood filled with treasured pets, tons of cousins, and wonderful neighbors. It was the stuff of dreams. So as our First Annual GrandCamp was coming to an end, it […]
University Of Iowa Museum Of Natural History
It was quite easy to plan low cost, child-friendly activities for our week long “GrandCamp” last summer. I simply thought about all of the places we used to take our sons when they were little. And the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History was the FIRST place that came to mind. We made a […]
Cousins Galore…And BINGO! (A Winning Combination)
A highlight of our Indy grandgirl’s “GrandCamp” week in Iowa had to be the overnight slumber party with their four Iowa cousins. And And that overnight stay even included some rousing games of BINGO…a treat for all of them! Another highlight of any overnight at our house is Peepaw’s popcorn. He has a real popcorn […]
Grandkids, Fossils, And Fun For All!
Peepaw and I may be old, but we took our Indy grandgirls to see some fossils much older than us! We took the girls on a short road trip to the Devonian Fossil Gorge near Iowa City. But before we trekked through that incredible glimpse of truly ANCIENT history, we started with a picnic lunch from […]
Grandgirls and Birds…The Iowa Raptor Project
When our Indy grandgirls decided to spend a week with us this summer, Peepaw and I began to make a list of nearby places to go and things to see during their “GrandCamp” visit. One of the first places I thought of was the Iowa Raptor Project near Solon, formerly known as the Mcbride Raptor […]
Meemaw and Peepaw’s GrandCamp…FUN For ALL Ages!
Iowa is not known as a tourist destination, but you would have a hard time convincing our Indy grand daughters of that. Our First Annual GrandCamp was a huge success! Earlier this summer, our Indy family told us their girls would like to spend a week with us in Iowa City. We were ecstatic! You […]