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

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

Iowa big skies

Big skies and corn

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

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

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

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

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 

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