Someone came up with the idea of turning a houseboat into a floating concession stand. We caught the Burger Boat fueling up the other day.
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The 36th annual RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bike Race Across Iowa) finished up in Leclaire this year. The Des Moines Register sponsors this bike ride across the state from west to east. Small Iowa towns host them along the way. About 13,000 bicyclists ride what they discover is not so flat of a state, dipping [...]
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You have seen many photos of the I-80 bridge over the Mississippi here. Well, yesterday I got stuck in a massive traffic jam (as we define that here, made me 15 minutes late getting home), and it turned out the Illinois DOT bridge inspectors were on the job. Illinois is in charge of bridge maintenance. [...]
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Our neighbor John has started to catch catfish with a trotline. Here is a definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotline
Nick is going to learn also and just added trotline to his Iowa fishing license. Here is John’s catch from Saturday night.
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Kim took the kids out tubing on Saturday and Sunday. I wasn’t quite up for that, so I got to enjoy some alone time. But here they are getting ready to go:
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As the river goes, we are pretty far north. We took the boat out for a ride today, 30 miles up the river to Clinton, Iowa. Outside of Camanche, Iowa, I decided to fill up an empty water bottle with river water to show you what it looks like. Kim is holding the bottle and [...]
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We are back up and running. I took these pictures a few nights ago as we got the fire started on the river bank. FEMA left us a brochure, but we don’t need it, thank heavens.
The sunset was pretty too.
We can start to enjoy the river, but it seems like the summer is aleady half over!
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Laurie stopped by her cottage on the way home from work to check up on it. She waded down the normally dry road to get in, but abandoned all boots on the way back out since to get into her back door, it was going over the top of her boots. We got this one [...]
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The north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota is a must see. We visited it recently on our way to a dog show in Thunder Bay Ontario. Highway 61 is over 100 miles of breathtaking scenery. A lot like Maine without the tides. But this has waterfalls also. So there was a lot of water, [...]
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The Wisconsin River flows into the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien WI. Therefore high water there is of great interest to us folks downstream. I took these pictures going over the Wisconsin River at US Highway 61 last week.
It is still up very high.
And flooded in the backwaters:
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