Maloy is only a two hours drive from Des Moines - but it is so much further away (hey, it really is different here)! We are happy to stay with Betsy and Brian in Maloy, a rural village of 25 people in hilly Iowa with beautiful landscape and a lot of animals.
Betsy and Brian moved here more than 30 years ago and since then offer hospitality and do gardening to grow most of their food. Besides a lot of cats, the neighbors dog Bella and a snake every now and then they have three goats with three baby-goats and some chickens (hey Jakob, they have green eggs!). And then there is the big garden! And the food is so good! And the talks are so important!
We watched the goat being milked, we had prayer time together, we dug up land, we talked to the neighbour and learned about the old plants of the prairie, we ate vegetable soup with freshly baked corn bread, we heard stories of Dorothy Day and about the Tivoli farm, we petted the cats, we spotted and got rid of poison ivy, we weeded the willows, we gossiped about the folks in the movement, we played with the dog Bella, we took a walk to the graveyard and learned about the history of the village, we went out for dinner to a newly opened place in the next town, we had goat milk in our coffee, we listened to Ina playing the piano, we listened to old stories, we drank wine and beer, we read books and newsletters, we had bible study together, we went to an Amish shop, we made cheese, we baked bread, we talked about religion, politics and our aims and means, we sewed our ripped clothes, we drank a lot of tea, we cleaned the floor of the closet, we did dishes together, we got backrubs from the goats, we discussed problems, we walked to the river, we made filo pie, we got T-Shirts, we listened to music - we had a great time with our friends ... Thank you Betsy and Brian!
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