Spring is finaly here.....

It took a long time, but it is finaly here! Spring, warm weather, grass growing, flowers starting to push their way up. It was a great day.
Caleb, Damaris and I brushed Sapho today. She knows it is spring. Her hair is falling out in great heaps. She is our pet horse, and she is turning 33 years old at the end of the month. That is almost a hundred human years. The hair on her head is turning really grey. You can tell that she is getting old. She's not as fast as she used to be.
After taking Sapho's wintercoat off, or at least a part of it, we had a BBQ.
Complete with baked potatoes, steak and hot dogs. It sure was a feast. Then it was of to church again. We had a minister today from Ontario. He was here for the weekend, and preached two sermons today. If the congregation approves, then we might call him. Our regular minister is retiring at the end of July. So we need a new one. We wil see who God has in mind for us. May His will be done.

BLIZZARD...........

That is right, it turned out to be a snowstorm after all. Here are a few pictures to bring you up to date.

It seems kind of unreal, we didn't have a big storm like this all winter. And then to get one at the tailend. God sure has a good sense of humor.

The kids were having a blast outside. Altough Caleb didn't last too long. When the wind hits you, filled with ice pellets, well it hurts. I don't think he liked that very much.
I think it could be a while before we can go anywhere today. And then to think that the last couple of weeks all the snow was gone. We thought spring was here. Now it looks more like January.

We are definately going to remember this day. As the Easter Sunday Storm.
Well, we will have another cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy the storm.
God's blessings to all.

A Blizzard? In April?

What is up with that? Can you believe it?
Of course it may end up not to bad, and blow over. But it is snowing right now. I guess we will see tomorrow morning how bad it really was.
We're supposed to get between 20 and 30 cm of snow. And then high winds tomorrow morning. It doesn't look too bad out yet.
Well, we will update you on that later.
So long for now, and may God Bless you.

These pictures taken at one o'clock in the morning. we still don't think it is going to amount to much. We will see tomorrow.

Spring is here............

Hi to all of you again. A few pictures from PEI. They were taken April 3 'rd, this year. We put the taps in the week before. And it has been cold ever since.
So the trees are not running too fast yet. We had a few good days last week. Amanda took the daycare kids out to the woods. They helped me to put the taps in the trees. Hang the buckets, and so on. We only did a few trees. Of course the weather turned cold again right after. So nothing was running until a few days later. Then the whole group went back to collect the sap and boil it down on the stove in the kitchen. And what better way to finnish the day then pancakes, with fresh maple syrup.

The snow is almost gone now. But everythings is still brown and dead looking outside. There is not a whole lot of frost left in the ground. So,when the temperature does go up, everything should green up quick.
I hope you all are enjoying some time off, and wish you the best for the rest of the weekend.
This is a picture of the old well house that used to sit overtop of the old hand dug well by the house. It is slowly falling apart.
You can also see that the trees are still bare, and the grass is brown.