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How the donut man from Bunkers Dunkers in Jefferson helped land RAGBRAI XXXVI for an overnight stop here!
Our hometown of  What’s the deal with the black & white saddle shoes?  Click here for the story of our farm in Greene County, Iowa. Here's looking at life at Simple Serenity Farm  Carla Offenburger got the lawn work season started Sunday, April 20. We saw rhubarb and lilac bushes budding, but the bad news is that we realized we must have the three ugliest trees in Greene County. Click here for larger format Earlier photos in this series 
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The route for the 2008 RAGBRAI -- that's the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa -- includes our Greene County seat of Jefferson as an overnight stop on Monday, July 21. An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people will be in Jefferson that night. Read the amazing story here about a chance encounter three years ago in Florida, where our vacationing local donut king Randy Bunkers warmly greeted a stranger who was wearing a RAGBRAI T-shirt. The fellow happened to be RAGBRAI director T.J. Juskiewicz -- and now, hurrah! RAGBRAI is coming our way!
There’s the annual Cooper Prom (for all ages), concerts, basketball, suppers, ice cream socials and people coming through all the time on the Raccoon River Valley Trail. Here is the story on the little community in Greene County, Iowa, that is now home for the Offenburgers.
| Here's looking at life at Simple Serenity Farm It turned nice enough Sunday afternoon, April 20, that it was finally comfortable being out in the yard. So Carla Offenburger spent a few hours cleaning up tree branches, garden stubble and last year's grass clippings piled for mulching. While we were out there with her having a look around, the best news we found was that the rhubarb is starting to grow. The second best news was that the lilac bushes are budding nicely. But the worst news was our realization that we Offenburgets must have the three ugliest trees in Greene County. In their long lives, they've been beat up by tornadoes, lightning, gnawing varmints and rot. Eventually all three will come down, but we'll at least start into this warm weather season with plans to leave all three standing for one more summer. The first one shown here is totally dead, but the other two still get leaves, and we're glad for that because then at least they won't look quite as bad! -- Chuck Offenburger       Send your comments to carla@Offenburger.com or chuck@Offenburger.com Here's looking at life at Simple Serenity Farm Archives
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