Archive for the ‘Family – Emma’ Category
April 30, 2012 – Emma at World Food Prize Iowa Youth Institute
Emma was selected to attend the Iowa Youth Institute sponsored by the World Food Prize. She worked diligently on a paper regarding water security in Jordan.
Here’s a link to the story for more details. Many luminaries attended,including the President of Iowa State, CEO of Pioneer, and Governor Branstad. Most everyone except the Governor stayed on course in addressing the youth except the Governor couldn’t help but make his pitch for Lean Textured Beef whatever.
April 29, 2012 – The Prom Goes on Forever…
It’s a tradition in Marshalltown to have a band concert the day after prom.
On the downside, the kids are wiped out after staying up through the after-prom party. On the upside, everyone gets to wear their prom gear for another formal event!
April 28, 2012 – Prom Night
It’s prom night.
Here’s Emma and Tyler before prom at dinner.
Emma with all her peeps just before heading off to prom.
March 8, 2012 – A Capital Day: Three Capitols, Three Barnes Women
Our family had three Capitols covered today – Iowa, Minnesota, and the nation’s Capitol! Linda was in D.C., Emma in the statehouse in Des Moines, and had it been a normal day, Claire in the Minnesota Capitol at her internship in the Governor’s office (but Claire had to skip work to go to Chicago for Mock Trial Super-Regionals)!
Emma was up at 4:45 am to get ready for her day. She’s part of the Iowa Valley Leadership, a group of about 25 people who “believe that community vitality depends upon individuals who commit to learn about critical local issues and engage in influencing change.” It was a combination education and lobby day at the Statehouse.
At the International Women’s Day event in D.C., Linda and Bonnie Campbell were the Iowans in attendance. They spent most of the day visiting the offices of Congressmen Steve King and Tom Latham and Senators Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley. Many Iowans will remember Bonnie as state Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate. Time magazine named her one of the 25 most influential people in America in 1997. Linda and Bonnie had a great day together swapping yarns.
January 3, 2012 – Year In Review
It’s time for a year=end review of some of my favorite moments and photos of 2011.
Kids and baby animals are hard to beat.
Extremes in any domain are interesting.
Martin’s new found love and interest in cooking gave us many great meals.
The promise of a neat spring garden always brings hope.
Linda’s wild look in the White House captures a moment.
“Walking the Talk”
Claire as a professional at her work post in DC.
Dad and Martin up on the North Shore of Minnesota.
Martin’s initiative to carry a big pack, rather cheerfully over 3.5 miles of portages.
Emma exploring new foods in Boston.
Taking care of some of our own responsibly-grown meat.
Visiting with women farmers from around the world at our farm.
The majesty and scale of the new wind turbine farm just south of our farm.
Finally, after 20 some odd years (who’s counting, exactly) the love of my life shining a little light of hers.
December 30, 2011 – Emma at Citrus Bowl
The Bobcat Band has spent the last couple of years raising money for a bowl trip. This year they went to Orlando for the Citrus Bowl. The following photo came from another band parent.
No doubt I’ll have more on Emma’s trip when she returns with her camera.
December 23, 2011 – Christmas Chaos
More than anything, family Christmas gatherings seem to be more chaos management than Silent Night. I won’t pull out the smiling children in front of a Christmas Tree now (that may be coming later).
This photo captures much in its ordinariness. People gather around the appetizers in the kitchen while Martin receives instruction from his uncles regarding sound effect production.
Middle child often gets left out of family publications, so to make it up to her, I found her doing dishes while her siblings were off playing and having fun. Great Christmas memories for Emma, for sure!
November 15, 2011 – At a Wind Turbine Work Site
After seeing the turbine blades lifted in a dramatic night-time maneuver, we thought we’d go check out one not quite built to get a scale of these turbines.
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The towers are made of three sections. This is the bottom of a yet unattached top tower section.
Here’s the top of the same (third) section – not much room for a person to squeeze through.
Emma with 2/3 of the tower built, along with the blade assembly still on the ground.
October 29, 2011 – Rocky Horror
Claire was home for a short break and was excited to go to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Guess I’ll let the picture speak for itself! Evidently a good time was had by all, with props provided by the theatre.
one year ago…”Signs of the Times”
October 21, 2011 – Luther Visit
We took a trip to Decorah for a college visit for Emma.
Luther scored points for having traditional Norwegian cookies – including rosettes, kringla, krumkake, and sandbakkle.
one year ago…”Thingamajig Thursday #230″
October 8, 2011 – Bobcat Marching Band – “Bent”
Today, I traveled to Fort Dodge to watch the Marshalltown High School Marching Band Perform “Bent.” For those that know Emma or band members, it might be interesting, for the rest of you, there will be more farm stuff in the upcoming days!
October 1, 2011 – Emma’s Homecoming
It’s homecoming week and today is the dance.
Here’s Emma goofing off with her date. The local paper endeared themselves to the entire high school by reprinting a previous year’s homecoming article and only updating the homecoming court names and photos. The article was complete with quotes from a previous principal, talk about moving the parade indoors because of rain (it was clear an in the 70s and 80s all week), and had the wrong theme. So the writer and editor both let that onw slip by.
one year ago…”Emma Visits River Museum”
September 24, 2011 – A Sweet Day
Today was honey extraction day. As GJ says, it’s all about separation today. First, you separate the supers from the hive and therefore separate the bees from their honey. Then you separate the individual frames from the supers.
Then you separate the beeswax from the frames. Emma with the heated knife and gj with a wax scraper.
Then you separate the honey from the frames in the extractor.
Then you filter out all the bee parts and remaining wax from the honey.
A final look at Emma with a nice frame. We ended up with about 15 gallons of honey from two hives. Shortly after the aerial jockeys sprayed around our farm, the hive at our place ha greatly reduced activity. After the bees died, the wax moths took over and there was no honey – but the two hives at another location adjacent to about 15 acres of prairie, did very well.
one year ago…”U of M Public Relations Disaster”
September 17, 2011 – Emma’s Golden Birthday
Today was Emma’s “golden birthday” so she had some friends over for the evening and topped it off with a bonfire.
We take our bonfires seriously (perhaps a bit too seriously). At any rate, this one did not escape beyond our property boundaries!
What better to do around a bonfire than plank on a pile of teenagers?
one year ago…”Farm Energy Working Group Meeting”
