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Autumn 2009 Market Days in Leclaire Iowa
Posted on 07 October 2009 by Kathleen
Come visit our many fine merchants this weekend, and do some shopping and just hanging out:
http://www.visitleclaire.com/LeEvents.html
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Dry Stacks (Grace Marine) Le Claire Iowa
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Kathleen
We took our first boat ride of the season last night. Temperature in the 70’s, a bit windy and therefore choppy. But it calmed down as the evening went on. This year we are keeping our 18 foot bowrider at Dry Stacks. They had the boat down off the top rack when we arrived and [...]
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Countdown to tugfest
Posted on 04 August 2008 by Kathleen
There is a rivalry between Leclaire, IA and Port Byron, IL. We have a rope tug of war across the river every year. Well, the weekend is coming up. See this link:
http://www.tugfest.com/
Place your bets. Who wins, Iowa or Illinois? I have mixed loyalties. I live in Iowa, work in Illinois and went to college and [...]
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Enjoying the river
Posted on 21 July 2008 by Kathleen
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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Wading in flood waters in work clothes
Posted on 14 July 2008 by Kathleen
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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Going down, rain up north
Posted on 01 May 2008 by Kathleen
We have backed off the crest a bit and we did not get flooded!! Rain up north is predicted, but they don’t think it will cause the river to go back up much, but then one never knows. We plan on moving the furniture back to the cottage this weekend.
Here are the update photos
Looks like [...]
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Leclaire Update Here Comes the water
Posted on 26 April 2008 by Kathleen
In two days we are supposed to go over major flood stage. Here is what it looks like today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW276XhAx78
That is our new champion Cardigan Welsh Corgi barking in the background. That is Russ. 9 months old and he has an opinion. Check out his blog since he has something to say:
http://www.cardicorgicapers.blogspot.com/
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