Dancing with the Stars

Carrie is now a dancer. Hmmm... On Dancer and Prancer, Donder and Blitzen...

Well, OK, she had a terrific dance recital today. Sarah was there and said so... But I am looking forward to tomorrow.... She has a job interview at Canadian Tire... Don't they give 15% off to employees?

Happy Birthday Kara Bliss

Today was Kara's 5th birthday. We went over for cake and ice cream with her tonight. On Saturday she is having a tea party to celebrate. Happy  Birthday Kara! 

A few weeks ago, we went to see her at her heritage fair. Here is a picture of her presenting her project on egg grading.

And today we let the cows out for the first time. The heifers and dry cows have been out for a bit now.

Cold Huh...

Yikes, it has been 3 weeks since I posted. We've had a few things happen, likely the most important was Mother's day. But no pictures. Tanya was down with the girls, and on Saturday night she and Carrie, Stacy and Gilbert, Sarah,Grandma and I went out for supper at Shiretown Publicans in Hampton. It was a good evening, and a great way to celebrate Mother's Day.We seem to be stuck in colder weather, no, not the song, but we haven't got much of our spring work done yet. A little manure out, the pit was full and we got it down 16 inches, and then it was full again, overflowing and we took a load out a day just to stay ahead of it. The last few days have been half good, so the pit is down about 40 inches. Heifers are all outside now, trained to the fence without too much problem. We were kinda hoping to have to chase them a bit, just to warm ourselves up. The cows will go out soon. School tours started Friday, it was warm that day, but not expected to be so warm with the one tomorrow.As for pictures, we had bought some new wagons, so we used some of our rainy days to get them and assemble them.

 

And we bought a new loader for our older tractor, part of a deal we made on a new tractor, but that is news for a later blog post.

And on a very positive note, Jesse and I were over to visit Scot tonight. He is home for the weekend, and expects to be home for good in 10 days or so. He has surgery scheduled for mid June to replace that part of his skull that has been in the fridge in Saint John since the end of March. I can't express how good it was to see him, he was milking the cows, and I'm sure he wouldn't be able to express how happy he was to be doing that.

Today

We got these new Sunflower offset disc harrows last fall, after trying them out on a hard piece of pasture ground last summer. This is the steep side hill next to Jesse's house, and we didn't really want to plow it. Jesse put Roundup on it last fall, and these discs cut it up pretty well today, so we are pleased.

We've had a busy past 10 days, Sarah and I went to Cape Breton for the funeral of her Aunt Eva last Monday, Sarah stayed the week there, and I returned this Saturday for the wedding reception of her cousin Ken and his wife Kim. And we also enjoyed the company of Jim, Mary Ann,and David for the Easter weekend. Lots of fun and laughs, maybe a beer or more, and maybe a bit of wine.

Happy Birthday Emma

Guess who turns 9 today? Emma!! Hard to believe it's been 9 years since we had 1 more beer, and a game of ping pong, while Tanya was waiting in the Escort. Happy Birthday Emma! Emma goat and Emma chicken, and all the other Emma's wish you a Happy Birthday as well.

On another note, today in Horsham, England, their will be a rededication of a war memorial to honour my grandfather, and other alumni of Christ Hospital School, that died in World War II.

Reginald Goodday was the son of Leonard and Matilda Goodday; husband of Dorothy M. Goodday, of Rothesay. He attended C.H. Newgate Street from 1895 to 1902 – Ward IX – and on leaving emigrated to Canada, where his father had just found a job with the Canadian Pacific Railway. He served in the Great War, first in 56th Canadian Infantry Battalion, and then as a staff officer at Canadian Headquarters in London. When the war ended he returned to civil life as a mercantile broker, but remained a volunteer with the Militia throughout the inter-war yEars and in 1939 was appointed Commanding Officer of the St John Fusiliers, a machinegun battalion. During the war he was employed as Deputy Assistant Adjutant- and Quartermaster-General (NOTE 1) at Headquarters Number 7 Military District at St John, New Brunswick. He was in his uniform and at work in his office on 31 August 1945 when he suffered a heart attack and died.

Happy Birthday Sarah

 Today little Sarah turned 3 years old. Here she is with her famous funny face. Happy Bithday Sarah!
We were up to Florenceville last Sunday to watch Madilyn's dance recital. Good job Madilyn.

And as long as the girls don't mind sharing the blog post with a couple of calves, here is a picture of non identical twins that were born last week.

And the manure pit. I previously reported that I had room for 10 more days, that was 13 days ago. Well, it's full now. So tomorrow is the day.

Random picture... I like this picture of Madilyn with Sarah.

Happy Birthday Hailey

Happy Birthday Hailey!

Today was Hailey's 1st birthday! Party time! So we all went to Vicky's for cake.

A happy time was had by all, it was so great to see all the grandchildren in one place that I had to try and get a picture.

And so it begins...

For the record, we started our spring work today. Jesse spread about 50 T. of bark ash, and found the fields for the most part fairly dry. This is a good thing, because in 10 and a half days we will run out of room in the manure pit.

We also got to try out a Massey-Ferguson tractor today. Ouch.

We are still praying for our neighbour, Scot, who remains in a coma, after his accident on March 30th.

Happy Birthday to... Me!

Today I turned 24, but somehow feel older than that. The girls from the Cooperators insurance brought me down a beautiful cake, and the folks at Alpine beer sent me candles, so I was all set.

March Break

This week is the kids March break, and yesterday both Tanya and Stacy arrived over here to catch some late winter sliding with Carrie. What a difference a week makes, this time last week we were complaining about so much snow, and this week we were worried that the snow would be gone before the kids got sliding. Here they are in the yard.

And here they are on the hill. Oreo even went, I wish I'd got the picture of him up the hill with them. And if you look close, there is Abby sitting at the top of the hill. I actually missed that at first.

And Emma got to help Jesse in the barn.

And a March break special.

Hailey and Victoria

Tuesday and Wednesday this week were spent in Fredericton, at the NB Egg Producers meetings. Not only did we get to spend the meetings with our 2 favourite son in laws, but Victoria was able to bring Hailey over for a bit. It was really good to see them. Apparently Hailey took her first steps today.

And more snow again

More snow again today, and to be followed by rain maybe, so let's get some off the roof.

More Snow

So, it's good to see a little more snow...but, yeesh, this one was bad...it took us all day to clean up after this, and we are running out of places to push it to.

And think about Billy and Bobby... We were late feeding them yesterday, but no matter, they couldn't find their way down anyways.

  

 So we enlisted Grandma, and she came over with her snowshoes and made a trail for them. I wasn't too hopeful, as she was only packing down the snow by an inch, and the Highlanders didn't have snowshoes, but it worked, and Bobby ran right down the trail.

It took quite a bit of coaxing, and I beat down the trail a bit more, and then Billy decided it was OK for him to come.

I guess the fence isn't an issue right now, the deep snow will keep them from getting out. In some places it is just 2 inches above the snow.

And in some places, all you see is the top of the fence posts.

But at the end of the day, both Highlanders and I were happy...

Snow

We've had quite a winter so far this year, and who knows, there might still be a whole lot more to come. It is still February. Here are pictures from outside.

And from inside.

The fence keeping the Highlanders in is only a few inches above the snow, but so far they have been good.

Carrie and Jessica made a snowman.

And Jesse and I spent a lot of the last few days clearing it off the roof of the barn.