Thank you to Bill and Steve for making the effort to come to Kingsley to get this much needed business conducted. The team traveled to the Le Mars Plymough County Courthouse to change the ownership of the Boat and Canoe to the Creasey Management Company, LLC, visited with our insurance agent, Jim Harvey, toured the farms, discussed business, ate Pork Vouvray, and went to the Plymouth County FSA office to take care of signing up the farms for the farm program, and meeting with the tax guy on Tuesday morning.
 
We boarded up the back of the office building in Kingsley as it was discovered that the floor near the back door was rotting and there was a pervasive mold spell which was so bad tthat Bill was forced to stay out. No decision was made on the building's future.
 
All in all the meeting was successful and the secretary extends his thanks to all participants for their fine work and special thanks and kudos and deep bows to our Manager, Steve.
 
Respectuflly submitted, March 12, 2012 by Bob, Secretary of the Creasey LLC's
 

22 years ago Megan Christine Creasey arrived in Sioux City. I know, I was there. Anyway, the moment she was born I could tell a difference just in how peacefully she entered the world <remember the last child I had seen born was Andrew and he was not going to enter the world quietly (yes, he was a naturally "strong" voice) >. In Psychology class we talk about the differnces in genders and I always relate to my own experiences with my children. Besides their one obvious difference, the boys were basically the same. When Megan was born she was a total mystery to me because truthfully I was dreading having a girl (I had weathered two boys already and was now trained to deal with boys - besides I didn't have much experience with girls with two brothers in the house!) But her birth put an end to that fear - in spades!
 

Happy Birthday Brother Bill! (see the forums for more details)! AwwwwwWWWwww . . . wasn't he cute as a kid? This was probably about the time I was born so my memory of this day is a bit hazy.

What a marvelous day for a road trip - started out in fog, ended at Okoboji. See the link for Pictures: I love the new door in the downstairs bedroom! I was very pleased with the cottage and hopefully the days of allergies will be over!
 
The Johnson cottage has been removed and the water is high. There are several docks out as you will see I took some shots from Christiansen's dock.

This past weekend I took advantage of a great opportunity to travel to Sioux City to revisit the place where I had met Charles Guildner a couple of years ago. Today's event was to partake of the pleasure of hearing Bruce Thorsen's talk about his project to visit several small Nebraska towns to explore the effects of the Great Recession of 2009! Bruce (no relation to Iowa's David) lost his right arm when he was 19 in an accident and wears a hook-like prosthetic. As a result, he had a personal interest in finding people who suffered from disabilities of some sort and report on them - while trusting his three students to concentrate on their main mission which was to report on the effects of the recession on small town Nebraska communities. (See the map)