Sunshine!

This is our second day in a row of sunshine!  So much better.  Now I can really see the dust I need to clean off of our wooden blinds we have in two rooms. 

Bill and Tim are off to Algona this afternoon to get our taxes done and find out how much we have to pay.  Farmers have to file by Mar. 1st.  

Bill has a used scissors lift to try out.  It was delivered here yesterday.  He and Tim are thinking about buying one.  Bill is using it to put up lights in the shed and will need one when he does the insulation and some other things.  They've thought of other farming related things they can use one for too.

Our builders, Greg & Bill, are coming to the house this afternoon to work on our drafty windows again.  We are not at all happy with Marvin windows.  It's a good thing we have the honeycomb type blinds that keep out cold and heat in most rooms.

I had a P.E.O. meeting in Pocahontas last night.  It was my month to give the program.  I talked about my return trip from my stamping weekend in Peoria when I came through Eldon, Iowa to see the American Gothic House and The Pie Lady, Beth Howard.  I talked about her book, Making Piece and about meeting three P.E.O. members working there at the visitor center.   You'll have to read her book, but because of pie, her dad married her mom and then she realized making pie comforted her after her husband's death.  

 She gives pie making classes in her American Gothic House and all over.  It's great because making pie is becoming one of those lost arts.  She recently traveled to Newtown, Connecticut to make pie, along with many volunteers, to give to the people there to give them a little slice of comfort after the shooting there.  It is interesting to follow her on Facebook because she tells where she is doing classes, about people peeking in her windows at the American Gothic House, etc.  To follow her on Facebook, search for The World Needs More Pie.