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August

During August, Mark hired a bulldozer crew to destroy and flatten two old acreages. One was just north of our house we all referred to as "The Dog House Place". Years ago a man owned the property and had a large number of dogs in kennels and cages. He lived in Des Moines and neglected the care of his dogs until he finally got turned in. I may have given a tip. His animals were malnourished and living in filth. The place sat empty for years until we were finally able to purchase the land. The boys then turned it into their area to explore and ride four wheeler's. They picked over every inch of that place. It had a few old vehicles and a couple trailer homes full of junk. Eventually we leveled it and next year it will grow crop. The second location was a home we leased to the Sorenson's and several of them lived there over the years. They slowly neglected the property and the home was quite a pit. They lived there while slowly missing payments and eventually quit all together. After being behind for almost a year, Mark decided it was time. They moved on and we leveled the house and barns. It too will become farmland. We got to go through the home before it was bull dozed. It was the grossest dirtiest place I had ever seen inside. The boys spent many hours working hard in the hot sun to pick rocks and debris out of the dirt after the bulldozings so it would be ready to farm.

Aug 9 Jayden went with her friend Erica to see Ned Ledoux, son of Chris Ledoux. Chris Ledoux was an older country singer songwriter and also a rodeo competitor who made the rodeo hall of fame. He goes back quite a ways and i have several cassettes and cd's of his. I used to listen to his music going to rodeos. I got to see him a couple times live in concert, once at a dance hall in Des Moines, and at a rodeo in Belle Plaine and at Cheyenne Frontier Days. Chris died a few years after getting a liver transplant in 2005.
Ned is his son and when he sings, his voice sounds exactly like his Dad. This is a concert I would have like to seen and the boys were envious as well. Ned performed for a smaller crowd on a smaller stage at the Iowa state Fair.

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