There is an old saying that “All Things Get Better With Age.” Well, that might be true for cheese and wine – but I am finding out it hasn’t done a thing for my 90 plus years habit of “putting off until tomorrow what I might get done today.”Working for newspapers did give me a nudge in the right direction because when that deadline for feature stories arrived, they had better be ready.
Hamburg Public Library has a number of new books to offer to our patrons.
Are there any other Rosebuds out there?Last week, I learned that I am a Rosebud, that is, a daughter of a woman who worked in a defense plant during World War II.
The application window is opening July 12 for the 2024 Fall Master Gardener training cohort, which will be offered in 44 counties or extension regions by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.Counties offering Fall training include: Adair, Boone, Butler, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Clayton, Dallas, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Harrison, Iowa, Jasper, Johnson, Keokuk, Linn, Lyon, Madison, Marshall, Mills, Mitchell, Monona, Monroe, Muscatine, O’Brien, Osceola, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Scott, Sioux, Story, Tama, Union, Webster, Winneshiek, Woodbury and Worth.Iowans wishing to become Master Gardener volunteers choose a county to complete training through, participate in online learning modules and attend at least four in-person training sessions organized by the county office.
Forty miles south of Council Bluffs on the Missouri River is the 3,500-plus-acre Copeland Bend Wildlife Area, an expansive mix of grasslands and high-quality wetlands constructed after the extensive flooding in 2011, when the big river was closed to boating, and levees up and down the Big Muddy were breached.After the waters receded, the U.S.
Second Monday: Hamburg City Council meeting, 1201 Main St., 6 p.m.
It’s so disappointing to reach mid-summer, having nurtured a vegetable for several months, only to find disease problems starting to appear!The first step toward control should always be disease identification.
Some areas of northwest Iowa received more than half a year’s worth of rain during the final week of June, leading to significant flooding conditions, according to the latest Water Summary Update.