*UPDATE* Due to the recent severe flooding in Decorah and region, the Big Wheel Ballyhoo has been CANCELLED. The original campground space as well as the Decorah Campground experienced heavy flooding, although many trails are in excellent riding shape as they were out of the flood area.
There will be a Big Wheel Ballyhoo in 2009 [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Big Wheeled Ballyhoo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 29er, Camping, Decorah, Festivals, Fun, Mountain Biking on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Memorial Day, June around the corner…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A balmy Iowa Sunday afternoon is leading quickly to a grand evening birthday celebration here at Inspire(d) HQ. Above is the June cover, on which you may have guessed we are trying to help spread some fun. The June issue features several great articles on local events & people, like; The Big Wheeled [...]
Brithday’s, June Inspire(d), and the world in bloom!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greetings Inspire(d) friends!
We are smack dab in the middle of “Birthday Week” here at Inspire(d). Aryn celebrates 27 today and I get the pleasure of being 30 one week from yesterday. Exciting times! The June issue of Inspire(d) is shaping up nicely – I’ll post the cover later this week and give a heads up [...]
Nadas, Garden, Mike McAbee is 40!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here it is Tuesday evening and I’m just getting around to throwing out a quick blog. It was a wild weekend in Nada’s-land for me. I cruised down to Iowa City on Friday afternoon with time to swing by Hub City Brewery near Oelwein – they’ve just reformulated their brown ale to be a bit [...]
Postville in upheavel…
Posted in ICE, Illegal Immigration, Meat Packing, Postville on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the US Government led what is being called the largest raid on a single facility In Iowa – ever – to find and arrest illegal immigrants at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa (Just down the road). “Agri” is the largest producer of Kosher meats (and non-kosher) in the country, and also a huge employer [...]
May is delightful… and so much to do!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello Inspire(d) Friends!
It has been a fantastic week in Inspire(d)ville. A couple of beautiful sunny days early in the week left me truly with a ‘red-neck’. Lovely. The thunderstorms last night were just enough to give everything another super-growth shot, which is only slightly alarming considering we still don’t have our garden [...]
But it’s only 5am…..
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Press day! Always an exciting time around 412 Oak and Inspire(d) Headquarters. While I type this blog, Aryn is sending the final magazine files over to Graphics in Calmar where in just a few hours our dear darling magazine will be spitting off the presses faster than a raging chipmunk.Aryn says, “I just spent [...]
