torand.org » iowa http://torand.org the power of two became one Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:15:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Today we say good bye http://torand.org/2009/09/03/today-we-say-good-bye/ http://torand.org/2009/09/03/today-we-say-good-bye/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:09:06 +0000 Scott http://torand.org/?p=196 This past week has been a rough one. I have been writing on this blog about my brother’s wife Diane and her battle with cancer. Diane passed peacefully on the evening of Aug 25. She was diagnosed exactly one year earlier, and my brother and niece were optimistic about the bone marrow transplant, but it was not to be. Tom is taking it well, because he knows she is no longer in pain.

It was evident that Diane and Tom had touched many, many lives. The wake for Diane was on Friday, and to see a line out the door of the funeral home with people waiting for as much as an hour and a half to talk to Tom and Debbie. Well that was just amazing to see.

The funeral was held on Saturday, that was hard for everyone. Tom was doing very well up to that.. He was good at the wake, but I could tell that this was going to be a very hard day. Diane was laid to rest in the plot is right next to her daughter Cindy.

]]> http://torand.org/2009/09/03/today-we-say-good-bye/feed/ 0 Do you have a pumpkin eating form? http://torand.org/2007/10/31/do-you-have-a-pumpkin-eating-form/ http://torand.org/2007/10/31/do-you-have-a-pumpkin-eating-form/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:32:21 +0000 Scott http://torand.org/2007/10/31/do-you-have-a-pumpkin-eating-form/ This is stupidity in action. Tax law: Are you eating those pumpkins? – Yahoo News. If I were to purchase a pumpkins in Iowa to make pies, and I do make my pumpkin pies from fresh pumpkins, I need to fill out a form to get a tax exemption from the Iowa Department of Revenue.

They need to be careful, or else it will create an underground industry of pumpkin smugglers or bootleggers. Women will be recruited to be mules to smuggle pumpkins into the state pretending to be pregnant.

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