Grandma's House

I went to visit Grandma yesterday. After I got my eyes checked. Need new glasses. Sarah lost my other pair. I think she just put them somewhere...no matter, they were 4 yrs. old and nothing much bothers me anyways. So I took a picture of her house with her new lawn and shrubs, but got caught. "What are you up to?"

"Just taking a picture of your house, Mom"...but if you look carefully, you'll see Ginger escaping via the front door while Grandma is worrying about what I am doing.

Anyways, I visited Grandma's house, and had a nice bowl of fish chowder, and a cracker, or two.
Thanks Mom.

Happy Birthday T J

Today is TJ's birthday, and I hear he spent most of the morning playing on a water slide in Amherst. Good way to spend a 27th birthday.

Ahhh...The life of a potato farmer! Happy Birthday TJ!

Happy Birthday Tanya

Our little Tan Tan turns 27 today! Wow, how time flies.. These pictures were taken on our very first camping trip to Lakeside, where we used to camp every summer after haying. This is our 29th summer here and this is the very first summer that we are still haying on August 19th. And I can't even say we are just about done. Yikes! This is also Emma's first day of school up in potato country. I wonder how fun school will be in this heat? Have a great day, Tanya!

And pull that bathing suit up!

Trying out a New Toy

Jesse convinced Hall Bros. that we needed to try out this fancy side mount brush cutter. I think he just wanted to get his lawn mowed. But we tried it out, it worked great, now we just have to scrape up the dough.


Jesse

Farm Blog...Swimsuit Edition

Not quite Sports Illustrated...
As everyone knew, Grandma turned 81 last Wednesday. Happy Birthday! She had her good friend Valerie down from Quebec, so Sarah & I took them to Halifax for a birthday lunch with her sister Joan. A stop at the Nova Scotia Welcome Center, another stop at the beautiful Wentworth Valley picnic area, and then a good lunch at the True North Diner in Bedford, and then back home. We stopped a few times on the way home, including a visit with Buttercup & Daisy in Sussex. Anyways....we didn`t get a birthday picture of her with her sister, so that is a bad thing. But we did get a picture when they came over here swimming on Sunday. They look kinda cute in their bright one piece suits, in an elderly way...

And for an update on how the pool turned out, not bad, huh...

Little Sarah's Christening

Sarah got baptized today. By Father Bill (TJ's uncle). Maria and her fiance Ben were Godparents. A happy day!

Changing the Pool Liner

Eleven years ago, Tanya, Stacy, & Jesse bought a used pool with a new liner. The deal was that if they bought the pool, I would set it up and build a deck. Our neighbor that sold us the pool told us we would get 10 years out of the liner. We did, but not 11, so this year we had to change it. Carrie told us to!
A big job. The pool had to be all straightened out and releveled. Then new styrafoam put down.

And to get liner in straight! We had 2 arrows to guide us. Pointed up. I hope we have the water on the right side. We are filling with our spring overflow.And this year it is sure overflowing.

All this work called for a beer. Or 5. I kinda liked the new Moosehead Light Lime. Jesse stuck with his rice beer.
Half of the management team drank coolers. The other half is cut off.

Carrie couldn't wait to enjoy! Now tomorrow we get to finish off the top edge.