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April 1

Today is April 1st and it got up to 87 degrees. It would be interesting to know how many records we broke for weather since 2012. On the news I heard that we broke the record for the average high for the month of March. The old record was set in 1910 at 51% average. We broke that by a lot with the average for March at 55 degrees, when the norm is 37 degrees. We have had some of the nicest weather ever. We don’t usually get so many nice days in Iowa. It either gets too cold, windy, rainy, or hot. This has been great. After church Jayden, Mark, and I rode horses and roped the hot heels in our new arena ground. We don’t have the actual arena panels up yet. The boys were still with grandparents. Jayden had a 4H meeting while I ran to get the boys. At bedtime Jake told me he never played a trick on anyone all day for April Fools. Quickly he and I came up with a quick one. He told Mark that he saw an Elk at Grandm and Grandpas, that it came right up in the yard. Mark fell for it and was wondering what an Elk was doing in Iowa. We got him again!

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