After 13 years, finally hitting 1000 posts!

[Cairycat]

To celebrate, I'd like to ask my Iowa folks: What do you love about Iowa?

Beautiful warm spring days are nowhere more beautiful than in Iowa. I love the gently rolling landscape, the miles and miles of fields of corn and soybeans and sometimes oats, people making their living from the land, the placid cattle - even the smelly hogs, if they're not too concentrated.

I love having four seasons - even winter can be beautiful, with the snow dampening the sounds.

I love how people help each other out - a recent example would be all people searching for, posting about, praying for the lost 16 year old boy from La Porte City.

I do love the Iowa caucuses - having first crack at selecting a president, meeting and hearing candidates up close. I love the process of the caucuses themselves, democracy in action, if only there was some way to make it so more could participate