A nice sunny day...........

The weather certainly cooperated today. Nice and sunny and not too cold. First we went North to Balmoral. We saw a lot of awesome nature views. Like the ones below. There is lots of snow every where. Some of the cottages along the trail had about four feet of snow on the roof.

Picture perfect. Lots of fun was had by all. This is what you call: Getting right into it. We had a few laughs over that. It is all part of the fun.
The trails were really good. Hard base with a few cm of powder on top. And then the groomer goes by to make it all smooth as glass.You can see that the guys are getting tired. Some of these groomers are running 24/7.Here is a nice action picture of Klaas. He seems to be having fun. The last bunch of pictures were taken in the Mount Carleton Park area. We drove right trough there. Some more spectacular scenery. A picture doesn't do it justice. You can see how much fun we all had.
Lots of thumbs up!
It was almost eight o'clock when we finaly got back to the hotel.

Friends forever. Klaas and Andre.
A quick shower and then a bite to eat yet. And a Corona of course. I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the timely updates. We are going for a short run tomorrow morning yet. And then we are heading home for supper. See you all soon...

Gone sledding............

In New Brunswick snowmobiling.

That is the place to go to get some serious sledding in.Here we are getting ready to leave. That was fun too. Just when we got to the bridge, they closed it to high sided vehicles. That included us. Oh yeah, they also told me that I had to report to the scales. Apparently, I have to go over all the scales because I have a tandem axle trailer now.As you can see in this next picture, you have to fill up with gas whenever and wherever you can. These pictures were taken at Island Lake. It is in the middle of nowhere. It is a camp that is running on a generator. Andre looks quite at home on the sled, eh? He's just lovin it. It is great fun to be out with the three of us. The next picture is of Governers,
They have about four feet of snow everywhere. You actually have to walk down into the place. They were glad to see us. We were their first customers for the day. So we had lunch there. It had been snowing lightly all morning , but that changed after lunch to freezing rain and ice pellets.
It makes for interesting visibility. We made it safely back to the Host, where we could relax and plan the next days activities. Hopefully the sun will be out tomorrow, then we can see some of the mountain scenery that we couldn't see today because of the weather.
And by the way, this was the only moose we saw today. Lots of tracks on the trail, but no real moose. Maybe tomorrow. Have a great day, and thanks for your visit today.

A few changes........

It was time to finaly get that new family picture on the blog. Before it gets old again.
Life on the farm, what can I say? It is really busy. Potatoes going out the door left and right. Cullage is down. Quite a change from last year. The price is down a bit from last year. So that evens it out.
Outside, it is still snowing. We had more snow this year then the last few years. We also had more freezing rain. That brought us our longest power outage since a long time ago. Our old generator kept us warm for the duration. We tought back, and realized, that it is 22 years old. So I guess it did well.
I hope your week is going well.......

A few more pictures.......

Here are a few more pictures of the storm. The kids were having a lot of fun with it. They figured that since schools were all closed, ours should be too. So it has been a nice slow week for them.All that ice sure made sledding fast and fun. They would almost go right down to the road. And on this side right up to the little house. I'm sure they will remember this storm for a long time. They can tell their kids, back when I was little......now THAT was a storm!
Below you can see by the icicle that Caleb is holding how thick the ice was everywhere. They thought it was quite something. It sure made some awesome decorations.
Above, just going for a walk through the clayroad. Hope there is no falling ice! Could be hard on the head.
A quick look at Klaas and Alice's. Lots of branches down there as well.It was a good thing that we did not get high winds with all the ice on the trees. That would have been a bad combination.
This last picture I took out back. You can see that there is a branch in the top that is ready to snap.
This concludes the pictures of the storm of 2008. I hope you enjoyed them.
We did get our power back yesterday afternoon. On day four. It makes you think of the saying:"You don't appreciate something until you it's gone!"
Have a great week.

Ice Storm on P.E.I..........

Here are a few pictures of our world as we see it right now. We are running on the generator. Hopefully it will keep going. The wind is supposed to pick up as the day goes by. Up to 90 clicks tonight. The schools have been closed for two days now
There are lots of people without power. Between Kensington and Hunter River, there are about 70 poles down. The Western end of the Island has been hit the hardest.
I will add some more pictures when I can. Maritime Electric said this afternoon, that it could be Friday before power is restored.This is the weeping willow in front of the house.And this is what the clayroad looks like.This next one shows how much ice is actually on the trees. It is scary to walk in the woods now. The temperature is coming up a bit and the ice is starting to fall of somewhat.
This is the pine tree by the house. It does look pretty like that.
Anyway, more about the storm later.

How time flies..............

Just a year ago today, we were traveling in the Dominican Republic. On that Monday we had a day of work and drove to Jarabacoa, to visit with Leona. We were stuck behind this truck loaded with bags and Haitian workers.
.You wonder that they don't fall off
The next picture was taken in Jarabacoa. The things you see on the road. That would never happen here on good old PEI. The culture is soo diferent from here.

It was amazing to see how Leona has been absorbed by the people that she works with. She feels so at home with them. It was amazing. The kids just love her. All in all, it was an amazing experience that I will never forget.......

Happy New Year.........

Sorry to all of you faithfull readers that it took so long to get this blog posting done. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. It certainly was a full house here. The first time that we were together with all thirteen of us. We took a few pictures too! What a happy bunch. Let me introduce you. From left to right starting with the back row: Dianna & Jordan, Aaron & Rebecca, Pete, Amanda & Matt, Isaac & Mary. Then in the front row: Beppe holding Micaiah, Damaris, and Pake holding Caleb.



A nice picture of the siblings. It was last summer at Upper Clements, that they were all together the last time.
And, "The Guys". As the girls get older, we seem to get more guys in the picture.
All in all, we had a great time together. There was even enough snow for a bit of snow mobiling. And a lot of games were played as well.
And now it is back to work for all of us. May God Bless all of you in the coming year.