Planting potatoes......

Planting started this week, the rain finally let up enough to hit the fields. This picture was taken in front of our house. After all the rain we had, its hard to imagine that the dust would be flying this soon. Here you see Pete in the Case IH working up the fields.
This next two picture were taken at Wilson's. It is about 80 acres and these potatoes are going to enjoy the view of the ocean. At least for a little while.

And here is Klaas, planting away in this big field, trying to get to the other side. He did well, and planted about 45 acres today. At that rate we will be done in no time.
The next few pictures show how the sets go into the planter. It takes a lot of equipment to get the job done.The pipe on the far left is part of the fertilizer auger. It fills the planter with fertilizer.

Reggie, with a big smile on his face, fills the planter up with sets. It takes a crew of good people to get the job done right. And we are very blessed to have such a crew.

After today we are almost 1/3 done, so all is well in potato land. Will try and keep you up to date.

Coming soon.....spring

We are hopefully going to start planting tomorrow. And if possible, I want to take pictures and post some here. It has been fairly wet here this spring. After a winter with lots of snow and very little frost in the ground, we thought that we were in for an early spring. But that was not to be.

Trees are getting their leaves now and the service berry tree by our house is almost blooming.

Not sure if that is late or not. But I'm sure that in most parts of the country, they are already done blooming.

Last week we had a lot of rain and specially the fields that were plowed in the spring are going to need some extra time to dry out. And the grass is so green, we can hardly keep up mowing it between showers.

You can see there are not too many leaves on the sugar maple in front of the house.

Last picture is for all you older kids that think that Caleb and Damaris don't do chores.

Here is the proof that they can work really well together in the kitchen and work well together.

Hope you have a great long weekend.

Room makeover.........

I had to go back to some Christmas pictures of 2007 to find some before pictures. And I know its not Christmas yet. But its all I could find with some old pictures of the room.

Good times for sure.

And if you are not in the picture, don't feel bad, it wasn't on purpose.

And this is what it looked like after the carpet was stripped out.

It looks kinda bare, but it gets better. You know the saying. It has to get worse before it gets better. This is a good example. Elisabeth got brave and painted the fireplace. What do you think of the color? I think it goes well with the new carpet.
I think Damaris really likes it too, maybe she just likes having her cozy living room back.

The newly painted fireplace and the new TV cabinet thats built right in. Made a wall with shelves in the back for school books etc.

Everything is nicely put behind doors, except the sub. And the carpet is so nice and fluffy. Its really warm on the feet on the cold winter days, like we had lately. Well, hope you enjoyed the tour. Are you enjoying your spring already?

More Snow.........

Hello my faithful followers and those that just found me again. It has been a great winter here, as long as you like snow. Lots of snow.

We keep shoveling it higher and higher. Soon I will need a longer handle on my snow scoop.
We had a few days that it warmed up a bit. An icicle formed on the purgola in front of the house. It was huge and beautiful, the way the setting sun was shining on it. Too bad I didn't get a picture of that.
Even along the side of the road it is getting filled up with snow. All the way along from our place to the end of the road, the snow must be piled ten feet high. The snowplow really winged it back the last time.

If we get a lot of wind now, the road will be closed in no time. But what a beautiful winter it is. I just love it. Tim and I are going to do a poker run tomorrow. It is a snowmobile trip. You have to collect five playing card on the way. And the one with the best hand wins a prize. Well, time to get some sleep and rest up for the big trip.

Snow, and lots of it.....

Hello all,

We are having a great winter. Love all the snow we got so far, and more coming tomorrow. I have not seen this much snow in the fields in a long time. Its great, you can go wherever you want. I even got stuck today, so much loose snow, I stopped and that was it, the sled just sunk. So Damaris and I had to put some muscle into it to get it out. Thankfully it wasn't too deep. And with a little pull from Damaris we were going again.

Damaris had fun too, she is really getting into driving the blue sled. Sometimes she comes on with me when we go on the groomed trail.
Andre, you are missing a good sledding season here. Not sure if I can make it to NB this year.

It has been great for sledding as well. The kids thought that it might be fun to sled off the roof. No fun just thinking about it, lets do it they said. And then climb up and do it again.

In the bottom picture, from top to bottom. Tim, Caleb, Rebecca and Damaris.
And fun was had by all.........

Home...

We made it home again today. I just want to specially thank Mike and Klarina for providing us with a place to stay Monday night. It was really nice to catch up with you guys. If you happen to be out our way, you know you have a place to stay anytime.

Last night was our final night at a hotel. We met Matt and Amanda there and had breakfast with them this morning. So good to see them as well.

It was a beautiful sunny drive home the rest of the way.

Ahh, its good to be home...........

Hello from Washington DC.........

Glad to bring you to our next place of adventure. We spend the last few days with Mary and Isaac.

While here we celebrated Mary's birthday, and Caleb's, again.

The first day we went to Baltimore and enjoyed the Medieval Times. It took us back to a time of Kings, Queens and Knights. With feasting, jousting, sword fighting tournaments.

It was our job to cheer on the Yellow Knight in his endeavors. He did very well until a wicked blow from a mace stopped him cold in his tracks.

Fun was had by all. Isaac had an interview in Boston and met us at the mall where the Medieval Feast was held. Then we all drove back to D.C. in the truck.

The next day we went to the National Gallery, where the Declaration of Independence is held. It was a bit of a disappointment for Caleb, there was no map on the back and we could hardly read it. But its a great piece of history never the less.

We also went to the Air and Space Museum. They are close together and we took the Metro to get there. We all had good exercise getting there and back.

We had a real good cup of coffee and a slice of Birthday Cake. It was real nice to be able to sit down at the end of the day. Here is a picture of Mary and Isaac's apartment building. They live on the Second Floor in a nice cozy apartment.

We took some groceries home and had a nice home cooked meal that night. Next day we went to church and had dinner with Isaac's parent. And tomorrow we will start heading home......
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