Happy Birthday Stacy

The weather can sure change in a hurry. After a cold weekend, yesterday and today have been so hot. I cleaned the pool last night, and it is filling now with the overflow from our spring. Carrie started working at the Evandale Resort yesterday. She was told that she was a great dish washer. Hmmm, we never noticed that here. Both Willard and Autumn lost their family jewels yesterday, but I'm sure no one wants to see pictures of that. But we do have pictures of Stacy, on her special day. The first one is really her, not Cecily. And the second one was taken by Brigitte.

Happy 27th birthday Stacy! We hope you had a great day. Did you get all those eggs graded?

M-S Bike Tour

This past weekend we participated in our annual fundraiser fo the M-S society. The Rona M-S bike tour. Despite their neutral stand on the CCSVI procedure that seems to have benefited Sarah and so many others, we feel that our support and gentle persuasion for change in thinking is the best plan for us. When we were doing our open farm day last weekend, I would never have thought that by this weekend we would have had our first cut of haylage all done, but we ignored all weather forecasts, and got 'er done. So, after a late spring and sketchy weather, we are all caught up to where we were at this time last year. And the bonus, no broken bones! We welcomed Simon back this year, but due to pregnancies and other reasons our team was down to just 4 this year. Here are Carrie, Jesse and I waiting to start. Simon will be here before we go!

Tanya was upset that this would be her first year not biking, she left home at 6 AM to be here with the girls to see us off. But ended up being the official photographer for the Psycows.

Here we are getting ready to go. I told you Simon would show up!

Nanny and Tanya were waiting for us in Norton. We won the Team Spirit Award, mainly for the enthusiasm that was shown by Tanya and her girls. Emma biked with us from Norton to Hampton, it was not warm out, and even after it started to rain, she declined an invitation to stop. "I want to do this for Nanny!"

The rain stopped, the cold didn't, but we got to Rothesay. I can't say Jesse left us in a cloud of dust, as it was too wet for dust, but there was no catching up with him. Here he is with Sheila at the finish line. After awhile, Carrie and I biked in.

We enjoyed a great meal at the banquet, and were pleased to earn our top fundraising per team member trophy for the 4th consecutive year! Simon also earned a personal fundraising award.

It was definitely HFC (hurting for certain) on the return to Sussex the next  day. But Grandma met me in Hampton with some Advil, and I soldiered on. And Emma, I think she wants to bike again!

And we did.

Notice Carrie in the background? Well here she is, still smiling! Proud of you Carrie!

And me!

At some point after this picture, both Jesse and I had flat tires. I needed air twice for a slow leak and Jesse had a blow out which was fixed quickly by Bill, from Darling Island Bike Shop. But we finished, and looking for those pictures.

School Tours

Today we had an open farm day, with proceeds towards our annual M-S bike fundraiser next weekend. It went very well, we had a steady flow of visitors all day. It also signified the end of this years school tours. We have been hosting 2 - 4 schools a week, for the past 4 and a half weeks. We even had a group of seniors in this year as part of their bus tour. I got a few pictures on a couple of different days. Here is one group in the lower barn.

Autumn, Jenny, and Santa

Milking a cow is a favourite.

Waiting for the milk truck, and looking at their funny reflections on the shiny truck.

Bacon, Ham, and Sausage

The kids having their snacks, and Emma and Abby wishing they could too.

And of course the horse rides with Banner.

Randoms. Carrie being brave on Banner, and Sarah being equally brave while in with the pigs.

Kara, Bradford, and Cecily. Today at open farm day.

Happy Birthday Cecily

It's not often that you turn one year old, but having a grandchild turn one seems to happen a lot around here. And there is no indication that it will stop anytime soon. Here is a very happy Cecily on her first birthday. The rest of us get to celebrate with her on Thursday.

Cecily is likely fast asleep by now, oblivious to the fact that Boston is 4-0 above Vancouver after the first in the 6th game of the Stanley cup playoffs. Hoping you had a happy day, YEAH Cecily and Boston!!!

Introducing Autumn

Why Autumn when it still feels like winter and summer is only 2 weeks away? But Autumn is a llama, the newest addition to the menagerie of animals we have around here.

Jesse and Carrie went to pick him up, and it looks like Autumn and Jesse have already formed a bond.

I'm sure there will be more and better pics of Autumn as he gets settled in.

Happy Birthday Jesse

This time last week, we hadn't put a seed in the ground, but what a week...we sure got lots done. And to top it all off, our little boy turned 25 today. As he hasn't changed that much, I just pulled a couple of pictures from the albums. The first is with Junior, just before we ate him.

 I'm not sure why there were only 3 candles on the cake, but it might explain a lot of things...

We all hope you had a happy day today, stay out of jail tonight, I'll be up in case you are late, but don't be too late as you have to spread bark ash in the morning, so we can get our last piece of corn in. We all love you Jesse, Happy Birthday!!!

Finally planting corn

I know, I know... I am up late, but I just got in a shower and a couple of glasses of wine ago. Today was a good day, we finally got some seeds in the ground. I started planting around  9:30 this morning and got 23 acres done here, and then a field at Brian's, and then over to Gilbert's and got all his done.