New Post.....

What to write. It seems like time just flew by this fall. Busy every day. Right from the day we got back from our trip to the States.
All the potatoes are out. The crop is really nice this year. Good quality, good yield. Now all we need is a good price.
Ellie and I are taking Caleb and Damaris to Halifax tomorrow. A bit of shopping, swimming, watersliding, eating and sleeping in a hotel. Back on Tuesday. So to all of you that still check in once in a while, thank you.
Hope to post some more news soon.............

Here in Cape May..........

Life is pretty good here, between spoiling the grand children and ourselves, we are quite busy. We are all doing great. Took lots of pictures. And thought I would share a few.
A picture of Elliyah
..and yesterday was Micaiah's birthday, he is 2 years old now.


Pake holding Elliyah...

West Cape May Point, as seen from the Fire Control Tower, a restored watchtower from the second WW. There were 14 of those situated around Delaware Bay, to protect shipping and munition factories up river.

The beach, at West Cape May Point. Notice the gravel beach, home of the Cape May diamond, a see through seaglass when polished lookes just like diamond.

A typical house in downtown Cape May. A lot of these are turned into B&B's. It is a very picturesque town. With a lot of history. Cape May recently celebrated its 400'th anniversary. It has been a favorite resort town for many famous people through the centuries............

New Baby......

Dianna and Jordan had a baby girl on Thursday August 27'th. Her name is: Elliyah Jade Spangler. She weighed: 7 lb and 13 oz. Length: 19 inches long. And blond hair.


Jordan and Elliyah..
Isn't she cute?

..These pictures courtesy of Dianna and Jordan..



p.s. See also new post below this one...............

Family reunion 2009............

This was our family logo that was embroidered on all the T-shirts and sweaters.It was a nice touch. Made for a nice group picture as well, (see below).The festivities were held from August 18 to 25. We had a lot of fun. Spend a lot of time together. Got to know each other again. Specially Tetcy, Ray, Craig and Joe. It was so awesome, and so much fun.
I took lots of pictures, so I don't know where to start. But in general, we saw a lot of family pictures like this putluck supper we had the first day. It looked really nice to have every one wear the same colour.

The campfires were a big hit every night as well. The weather cooperated really well.
One of the highlites was the trip to Flowerpot rocks. It made us remember Mom and Dad, and how this whole reunion thing got started. Caleb and I went rock climbing.
He just loves climbing as much as I do. The rest of the week was filled with all kinds of fun things. At the end of the week, we wished for more time, but home was calling. So off we went, back to reality.........

Finaly, pictures of July 1'st.......

It was a nice overcast, but dry day. Just the kind of weather you need for festivities like Canada Day. No sunscreen, no sunglasses and no sunburn at the end of the day. Although it would have been nice to be able to have the fireworks. They were cancelled due to the wind being the wrong way. Right over the village. Fire hazzard you know.
But we did have a parade in the morning. We watched Julie go by on a hay wagon. Forgot the camera and the picture on the phone was too dark to use.
At noon the booths opened. A lot of people were gathered in the community park in North Rustico. Julie had a booth there as well. Being Miss Teen PEI and all, you got to have a booth on Canada Day.
There was also face painting. Caleb and Damaris took full advantage of that. In no time they went from two very respectable kids to: A Pirate and a Zombie. border Go figure.
They had lots of fun.
We took Tineke and Cassie along too. Here the three of them pose in front of the Canadian Flag. Mounted on a zodiak from the Navy..........

Happy Canada Day!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wishing all of you Happy Canada Day tomorrow. Taking my camera to the festivities toomorrow. Hopefully we will get some nice ones. Parade tomorrow morning, hope to see Julie on the float, stuff for kidds to do at lunch time and then a pool party with BBQ at Marten and Karen's.
And top it all of with fireworks in the evening.

Tree planting............

Some new faces on the blog. For those of you that think that I only do stuff with Pete, think again...........Here is Damaris holding up a little Eastern Pine, ready to plant. Below, Caleb said:" Does it really smell like a pine tree? Well, why don't we smell it and find out?"

This morning, we went with the Sea Cadets and the watershed group, and planted some trees. There were about a dozen cadets, and then a few people from the local watershed group. We had about 250 trees available to plant. They were donated by the government nursery. Planting happened on a property that we rent. It has a big man made pond with wetland all around it. An ideal spot to plant trees.All species native to the P.E.I.
A good time was had by all. Damaris asked:"Are those fishy things in the water tadpoles Daddy?" And after a closer look, yes they are. They had so much fun, it was hard to get them out of there. I don't know how much fun it was for the tadpoles.
Then it was back to the field where there was some heavy duty planting going on.
Planting is going well. Two more days should wind it up pretty well. The last two weeks we had really good weather. So a lot of planting was done.
Below are pictures of the Big Deere that we use to work the land. It pulls a Rez-Til.
A big rig that churns up the land and makes it fluffy for planting. Heavy duty pulling, it takes all 190 HP to keep it going at 7 MPH.And the last picture shows the other Deere with the potato planter. You can see how dry it is by the dust in the air.
I hope to get some pictures of the tuberunit planter yet. Maybe I will get them on next week. Enjoy these in the mean time.