Change

As I begin this blog I am reminded that change is all around us, sometimes it is very obvious and sometimes it is not.

Our family has recently closed a chapter in our lives. The Lesh siblings sold the Hager/Lesh homesite last week. It is the building site of a century farm. The home pictured is the third home located on this site, the prior ones succumbed to fire.







The barn shown was rebuilt after burning many years ago also.










We recently spent an evening walking the place with Sara & her kids and Stephanie. It was an emotional evening for Sara & Gabe in particular, as they lived here for several years before moving a year ago to La Porte City. It was also hard for Shane, as he spent an evening there before leaving for Iraq. In some ways it is just a house, but I know there are other aspects to this location that were hard to leave. The history of this place is evident in farm pictures and the ancestors of Jeff's family that worked this land and lived and died there as well. Jeff & his siblings were the first generation not born in this house, but at Allen Hospital in Waterloo.


This site was the home place for the original farm that was eventually broken into 3 parts and left to three brothers, Jeff's great-uncles, and grandfather.

Our memories are such a blessing. Even though family has past away and life has changed, we still have the privilege of recalling those special people and times and places.