Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Stout, Iowa - Walk around Town



The older section of town has some beautiful old houses


people are interested in sprucing them up


small building projects are going on


Here is a "fixer upper" for sale


Backyard gardens


Fire Station


Post Office


Love the name

 Park


and a newer section of town & building lots


Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Iowa Delivery


 we delivered the piano



it sure is heavy


but Olga will love it



next the freezer


even though it was small



it barely fit down the stairs












Monday, July 29, 2013

Iowa big skies




Big skies and corn

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Stout Reformed Church


Sunday Morning Olga 7 Stephen's first service as pastors of Stout


What a friendly congregation


Afternoon, official installation










Pastor Josh was on screen giving a charge, preach the word and love the people





Saturday, July 27, 2013

Moving the Piano



The piano is leaving


How shall we do this?


such a heavy instrument




Rapture = Wedding

We are learning that the sequence of the Rapture resembles a Jewish wedding


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Round up


Just some pictures from last week that didn't get posted


The smiley face is still on the weight


Chandra visited with Brad in the tractor


Trevor driving by, and by, and by


The grapes look great



Wednesday, July 24, 2013

4H Listowel



Marc's calf was not an easy calf to work with


socializing is a big part of the day


Jeff was in the middle


Marc ended up last


Sometimes it is just not your day


But his calf did not bolt so all that training did help





Tuesday, July 23, 2013

rain & clouds



we had 15mm in 20 minutes


but the cow corn came back up again



it's a different story with the people corn


flat and broken on top of the beans


still some beautiful clouds


we only got the tail end of the storm 











Monday, July 22, 2013

teperature down 10 degrees



Friday morning breakfast outside


The wind was blowing fierce


clouds start to look real stormy


it's brewing


leaves and branches are flying


these look like to could start rotating


it is a colour picture but it looks quite black