Hi from Iowa

[Deety]

Hi everyone,
It has been a dream 20 years in the making but finally my husband and the menagerie and I moved into our 5 acres in a berm home with a pond and spring and ample garden! I have been slowly decreasing time at work and working on the plan to retire early so I can do what I love and spent time with the people and creatures I love. I'm a gardener with a passion for the history of herbs especially, and I'm building my greenhouse from old windows and can't wait for spring. I'm fed up with being a slave to a corporate job and I'm fed up with the accouterments of that job that inevitably cost me a lot of money: the driving, the parking, the clothes, the technology needs. I'm remaking my life, right down to my values. Very happy to be here and listen to your stories.

[iris lilies]

Hi! My husband and I are from Iowa. We now live in Missouri.


Each time I visit Iowa I just want to shovel all of that beautiful black soil into my car and take it home.

[Teacher Terry]

Welcome!

[catherine]

Nice! Welcome!

[KayLR]

Welcome! You're life sounds intriguing!

[Deety]

Hi! My husband and I are from Iowa. We now live in Missouri.


Each time I visit Iowa I just want to shovel all of that beautiful black soil into my car and take it home.


Never thought I would live in Iowa, let alone love it so much, especially after growing up in Australia. But I love this place.

[Deety]

I'm getting it figured out, for sure!

[dado potato]

Welcome!

I think of Iowa as the home of All Grinnellians Great and Small!

I am impressed by the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College. http://www.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/documents/PrairieSuite_1.pdf

[SteveinMN]

Welcome! I live in the state above yours but I went to university in Iowa. Go Cyclones!

[iris lilies]

Welcome!

I think of Iowa as the home of All Grinnellians Great and Small!

I am impressed by the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College. http://www.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/documents/PrairieSuite_1.pdf

What is your connection to Grinnell college, Dado?

My Grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and their children, went to Grinnell on one side of my family. It is a big fat hairy deal in my family, so much so that I am annoyed by the reverence shown for the Harvard of the Praries.

I did not go there nor did my parents of that side of the family.Probably we are not smart enough. Yet, I don’t give a chit.

[rosarugosa]

Welcome Deety, good to meet you!

[Zoe Girl]

Glad to meet you, I have relatives all over Iowa. I was born in Burlington and my dad's family is from a small town up in the northwest corner. I know my grandmother could grow about anything there without hardly watering.

[Yppej]

Welcome. You have an enviable life.

[Gardnr]

Welcome! Yea for your hard work and commitment to create the life you want! I look forward to your stories, your inquiries and your insights!

[Deety]

Welcome! I live in the state above yours but I went to university in Iowa. Go Cyclones!

Did you take a Rhetoric class back when you were at Iowa? Might be that one of my colleagues taught that class!

[Deety]

Glad to meet you, I have relatives all over Iowa. I was born in Burlington and my dad's family is from a small town up in the northwest corner. I know my grandmother could grow about anything there without hardly watering.

You just throw seeds in the ground and they pop up! I love living here (although I nearly bit it on the ice that's on top of the snow this morning)

[Deety]

Welcome! Yea for your hard work and commitment to create the life you want! I look forward to your stories, your inquiries and your insights!

Thanks! We all just keep working on the dream--only way it happens

[SteveinMN]

Did you take a Rhetoric class?
I didn't. Largely an engineering class load.

[pinkytoe]

Welcome! I have never been to Iowa but apparently have many relatives of Norwegian descent there.