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Greetings from Dyersville! I can’t believe it is December already. November was a busy month full of surprises. The month started out quickly as the Walters family added another member. My grandson, Jack David was born on November 2nd. The next weekend was the National Farm Toy Show here in Dyersville. It was great to be able to talk to everyone at the show and display our new items. …

Greetings from Dyersville! October has drawn to an end and it’s almost time for the National Farm Toy show. This year’s show is a little different than normal. The main show is being held in a different building here in Dyersville. The former “American Homes” building is just down the road from the National Farm Toy Museum. ERTL will also be participating in the show. We will have three …

Greetings from Dyersville! It’s been a busy last 30 days as we’re now into September. In my last blog I gave an update on my sweet corn. Here is an image of some of the crop this year. You can’t beat fresh sweet corn from the garden. I also dug my potatoes up. I always seem to stick some with my potato fork, but overall it was a good potato harvest. I’m sure many of you heard, o …

Greetings from Dyersville! Here we are in August and the summer is flying by. The corn looks good around Dyersville as we’ve gotten some much-needed rain in early July. One of the storms had some wind that did a number on my sweet corn. Mother nature has a way of fixing its problems, and it sure did a good job getting my sweet corn to bounce back. You can see the damage and current cond …