Farm Picnic 2008

On Saturday we had our Annual Farm Picnic


Talking..

"Shoes"


Looking at pictures and stuff

After eating...

We went on a tour of the farm...


A stop at the cows...


Then chickens (the layers)...



Daniel and Janel

The broilers...

In at the shop

Starting the fire

Fire!!

In the evening we had a bonfire

A few pictures of getting ready for the picnic

The boys..

Logan moving one of the chicken buses

Blake mowing the field

The straw!

Unloading it..


Everyone had to help!! :)

First of all...we now have cold water at the kitchen sink!!! (Editing to say: we've been without cold water at this sink since, I think April. We kept consoling ourselves that at least we had hot water and didn't have to heat it on the stove. Every now and then it got just too, too hot to keep our hands in the dishwater, so we'd go to another sink to get a pitcher of cold water...... It's amazing how use to things one can get. We still tend to forget there's actually cold water there now!! Thanks a million, Dad (and Garth, the little body under the sink)!!! ~ Colleen )


The wind the other night pulled a piece of roofing up on the barn roof...so...



All done!! And safely down.

Logan working in the yard

Welding something on the front of the chicken bus so we can put a hitch on the front.

Clark and Miles. They don't have to fight about toys around here, there's plenty to go around!!

Blake tilled the other day. It gets very dusty out there!!

Logan spent a few days this week hauling compost.

Brady and Brock picking up spilled walnuts

Blake getting the trailer lights working (to go pick up the truck) Clark helped also :)

Mom, Grandma and Miles

"What a cute little guy in that mirror!!"


is this..safe..??

Garth taking the shingles off a roof

Trent

And the ever busy, Clark

Eastward bound

The other day I walked into the office to see Blake mapping out his latest adventure on Google. We both laughed when we saw the results. Normally Googlemaps gives the estimated time a trip will take in hours and minutes. This time it said: 1 day, 0 hours.

Paul, Blake, and Brady left a short while ago for Philadelphia to pick up a truck. (That ebay again!!!!!!!!!). From there, Paul will turn around and drive home; Blake will continue on to Boston for, of all things, another truck. He'll then swing through Pennsylvania for a stop at the Deutz tractor dealer.

Don't ask me why so many trucks. I don't know. Paul and Blake both mumbled through some sort of explanation when I asked them about it.

So, what this boils down to here on the home front is: same old, same old. Not, of course, that we don't miss people when they're gone, but this family does have a way of filling in for the missing when they are.

Presently Logan is emptying the milk tank. He's already cleaned out the Brillion seeder that he was using last night to plant, I think, oats. At least oats is what I picked up at the mill and took out to the field for him.

There is a small consolation to all of this traveling the guys are doing: we don't have to dress chickens today. That was the job every other day this week and will be tomorrow, too. I'm sure Audrey, my ever faithful helper in that department, will be glad of it as well!

~Colleen

Mud......!!

Playing in the mud can be quite fun you know!! :)

"Wanna join us, Blake?"

Clark and Miles (before their bath!)