Sunday, March 1, 2009

Pete's birthday today......

Today we celebrate Pete's birthday, he is twenty years old now. Quite a milestone. All the guys are over today, for tomato soup and icecream cake from DQ.
They were going to be with Matt and Amanda this weekend, snowboarding at Crabbe. But God had other plans. Car trouble changed their plans and now they are still on PEI. Of course it is nice to have them all here for Pete's big day. I took a few pictures this morning, first one, the guys playing Battlefield together. That is Pete in the bottom right and Caleb right behind him. And the next on does not need an intro. We have all seen them before
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Mmmmmmmm............that cake was some good.
The weather here has been wintery lately. Lots of snow around. I did get some sledding in. Mostly in the evenings though. Since we are very busy grading potatoes the last couple of weeks. And last week was a busy day of blowing snow as well. Good time for the guys to be in Florida. Bet they didn't shovel any snow there!
I took a few pictures of that as well. Our house, behind the snowbanks that are alongside of the road. .The next couple of pictures are of the snow blower. One posing and one of it working.
You can see the snow coming out of the top there. It comes right from the fan and gets thrown about two hundred feet into the air. The drum rotates and can throw the snow to either side or staight up out of the shoot.We also did some snowmobiling. Last Sunday was just a gorgeous day to be out. Today, not so good. It was raining yesterday and now it is minus ten again. The trails will be frozen and hard as rock. No lubrication for the sliding rails.
Freezing rain tomorrow, and rain for Tuesday may slow things down even more. On this picture shows us having a break and a stretch. That is Tim on the left and Rebecca on the right.
This is an action picture of the other two sleds closing in on me. The weather as I said before was just beautiful. We went about a hundred some odd kilometers. There was lots of traffic on the trail.
We also got stopped by the trailwarden in Winsloe. Him and two policeman were writing tickets out to people that didn't have the proper documentation, re: trailpermits, registration or insurance. We were waved through after checking our stickers. This last picture is the view I like best, a clear groomed trail ahead of me..........
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3 comments:

Matt n' Amanda said...

looks like you had a lot of fun. :) Glad to see you are enjoying the snow. WE are supposed to be getting more snow right now it is 25 centimeters. I think people are getting realy tired of the snow.. but I can always use a forced day off... hehe. Anyway. Love you lots and glad things are going ok! You sound really busy, but its a good sign that you actually had time to write on your blog. Love you Dad.
Amanda

Dianna said...

LOVE IT!!! thanks for those lovely snow pictures they sure are niceto look at! Wish I could shovel some snow although it looks like I may get my wish if it keeps up for another 10 hours. its raining and snowing!Im sure Jordan will be called into work tonight..Anyways I am off to watch some amazing race now..love you lots and it was nice to talk briefly with you a little bit ago and thanks for the update! Love you! Dianna

sugarnuggets said...

Oh what a fun outing and what a fun room full of boys! Are they all two decades old?

Hope you keep having fun in the snow and the sunshine! Love ya, Tetcy