Have you read this before? It sure fits with some of the weather we have had this winter. Barb On the sixth day, God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said, "Today I am going to create a land called Iowa. It will be a land of outstanding natural beauty. It shall have tall majestic landscapes full of buffalo, tall grass, hawks, beautiful skies, forests full of elk and deer, rich farmland and fair-skinned people. I shall make the land rich in resources so as to make the inhabitants prosper; I shall call these inhabitants Hawkeyes and they shall be known as a most friendly people." "But, Lord", asked Gabriel, "don't you think you are being too generous to these Iowans?" "Not really," replied God, "just wait and see the winters I am going to give them" Author unknown.

Amen.... I'm in north central Iowa and I am still chipping away at the 2 inches of frozen rain,sleet,thunder snow that we got on Thursday past. I'm trying to be patient as they say we will be back above freezing next week. it might hit 30 F. today. Esther ----- Original Message ----- From: "barbgeni" <barbgeni@cox.net> To: <Iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [IOWA] ???? > Have you read this before? It sure fits with some of the weather we have > had this winter. > Barb > > On the sixth day, God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said, "Today I > am > going to create a land called Iowa. It will be a land of outstanding > natural > beauty. It shall have tall majestic landscapes full of buffalo, tall > grass, > hawks, beautiful skies, forests full of elk and deer, rich farmland and > fair-skinned people. I shall make the land rich in resources so as to > make > the inhabitants prosper; I shall call these inhabitants Hawkeyes and they > shall be known as a most friendly people." > > "But, Lord", asked Gabriel, "don't you think you are being too generous to > these Iowans?" > > "Not really," replied God, "just wait and see the winters I am going to > give > them" > > Author unknown. > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >