This Is Iowa

Heartland Acres

Our visit to Heartland Acres...

Emily is using an old timey corn sheller. This thing was fun to use and I think we could've just shelled corn the whole time. It's tempting to throw other things into it to see what would happen...

Yup, that is a creepy mannequin:

Iowa in the early days. There were some towns on the map that no longer exist. Ivanhoe?

Music for everyone! A nifty old jukebox that still works surprisingly well. I like the hum and soft crackle of the tubes when it warms up.

Last stop was the one-room schoolhouse. There was a petting zoo, too, but a storm was moving in quickly, so we didn't spend much time there.

Going nowhere

There are worse places to live than Cedar Rapids. Really, there are. For example: Detroit, MI; Jackson, MS; Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; New Jersey (yup, the whole state); Albuquerque, NM; nearly all of Nebraska; and most of the rest of Iowa, to name a few. But if you really feel like you'd be better off anywhere else, Google suggests getting some ink done. If you Google directions from Cedar Rapids, IA, to "anywhere": you'll end up getting a tattoo. Or three.

Planning to go nowhere in life? Go to college. Don't get mad at me, Google said it first.