Last week we got our first snow here. We had missed getting any white stuff until this point with folks both East and West of us getting slammed pretty good while we still had lovely weather. Like our neighbors to both directions, our snow was very wet and heavy. It did cause some issues in …
So the past week or so has been all about getting the corn (maize) out of the fields. I figured that I would share with you a few photos of it…
The corn down along the bottom land has been harvested so we can get to the creek now. This time of the year it’s pretty low, perfect for exploring with some little dogs! I’ve found a nice sandy bend which is out of the wind and sort of hidden from the world. We are obviously …
I knew that there would be some adjustment moving back to Iowa, but I can honestly say that I didn’t expect this:
We’re finally running in the wind here again. Malcolm has been in full-on sniff mode for the past few weeks. Rather than running around and getting his energy out he has been nose-to-the ground checking-out all the new and interesting smells. Sometimes I wish I could explain things to him as you can almost see …
From my after-dinner walk tonight.
Autumn in Iowa is… quirky. It can go from the 80’s to below freezing in a day and does so often enough that it’s not commented on as “strange weather”. There isn’t as much fall color here as there is in other places I’ve visited. It is definitely not Rhinebeck, but few places are! However, …
On Tuesday at around 2am GMT we awoke to get the proverbial “show on the road”. The cats were all duly corralled and crated and the car was loaded with baggage and animals. Driving to Heathrow at that hour of the day is quite easy which is probably a good thing as we had a …
The time for me to leave England is drawing near. This September I am moving back to Iowa where I grew-up to be closer to my family and to get to live in the Midwest of the US again. I have wanted to move back for at least the last 10 years, just couldn’t do …
For all of the new members of the Task Force, we’ve made a cheat sheet for surveillance purposes. This is, for all intents and purposes, a cast of characters seen entering and leaving The Old Chapel. Some of them have only been seen through windows from the outside. Many of these photos came from an …
Sarah Jane Humke 