StillwatersIowa

ATTITUDE- Life is 10% what happens and 90% how we handle what happens. Harris is apparently ok with the haircut his mom just gave him. Washing trucks and vehicles was one of the main jobs this week after the gravel roads improved some. Thanks Ryan for doing your share and having a good attitude. Alex worked hard on getting one of our forklifts ready for a makeover. He washed, took things apart, sanded, taped, primed, and basically got it all ready for Mike to shoot the following day. The TW 20 is looking different. So far Mike has the blue all painted. He and Suzanne had a date night to Ottumwa Friday to look for some more light gray paint for the wheels. GRATITUDE- Being grateful, content, and generous is a mindset that will make life totally worthwhile. Loving God and blessing people is the big picture while we are here on earth. Blessings without gratitude soon leads to a feeling of entitlement. Harris is grateful for is little sister Hazel. We had our after har...

I remember my Uncles and Aunts telling stories about how they used to get stuck driving their cars on their roads back then and would have to get a team of horses to come pull them out. Think about the old cars we see in parades that they used to drive. They were two wheel drive. They had skinny tires. And they were low to the ground. The gravel roads this week have been falling apart. Warm and wet in January in Iowa is not the way it's meant to be. We have a scheduled a fair amount of corn to go to market this month and have been trying to haul in the mornings. This week it hasn't been freezing overnight and the trucks are carrying around 2500 pounds of extra empty weight due to the mud. So we have been hanging around the shop more. The forklifts are getting their yearly servicing. It's too warm to race on the ice and the kids have been working on their bikes. We decided to give the TW 20 a makeover. Mike has been cleaning and sanding. Jim worked on we...

Jan and I were given an opportunity to visit Grand Cayman Island this past week. It's just south of Cuba and west of Jamaica. The island covers about 75 square miles. We stayed in a two bedroom apartment with another couple. On the day we arrived we were given a rental car to drive. The steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car and you drive on the wrong side of the road. Parking lots and roundabouts are the hardest things to remember to do backwards. While taking pictures the first day I accidentally dropped my phone in the ocean. Oops. A local fellow helped me find it. It's been misbehaving since. We spent most afternoons on the beach. There were dozens of different places to try all kinds of food. I read 5 books. We met lots of new friends. About a half a dozen of us were early birds and had coffee together every morning. My phone didn't work and never rang once. Last Sunday nine of us decided we were going to experience a local church service. Most tim...