Our friends have arrived............

Well, the big day has finaly come to P.E.I. It means that spring is here to stay. The weather was just beautiful yesterday. Nice and sunny, and warm too.
Elisabeth said that gardening is earlier this year.
The kids were having lots of fun out, looking for worms in the gardens. They made a wormfarm with them. Hmmm...maybe a new crop for me. Hope your week is going well. Ours is.
This Sunday we are going to visit with Matt and Amanda. That should be exciting. We are looking forwaed to it. Back home again Monday night after a stopover in Moncton.
Have a great weekend everyone.........

Spring is coming.......

Dear readers

It looks and feels very much like spring today. I played catch with Caleb and Damaris today. The grass was a little spongie yet, but we had lots of fun.
The land in front of the house is steaming as I write this. Another sign of spring. Although we are a long ways away from planting potatoes. The ice on the bay is starting to thaw. There is a dark line from the bridge to behind UK's place. The ice in the straight is going away as well. Soon it will start to warm up again. The picture was taken in the National Park above North Rustico.
I'm getting some comment spam lately. So I have decided to change the way that I post your comments. For now I pick wich ones get published. The comments will go to my e-mail account first and then I post or delete them. We'll see if it works. So if your comment doesn't show up right away, that is why.
Have a great week.......

Belated Sleighride Fun.......

It was a while ago already that we went on our sleighride. But I finaly got the pictures developed. And I decided to share them with you.Those Percheron horses looks pretty huge upclose. The team on the right weighs in at about four thousand pounds together. They have no problem pulling a big sleigh. The one horse open sleigh that we had out is for smaller groups, like us. We were only five of us. Jim said that he had a pretty busy winter.
Jim also made a big hill for sledding as well. We all had a go at it. Lots of fun was had by all. The whole week was a fundraiser for Sarah. She is going to try the bicicle trip across the U.S.A. The Sea To Sea Biketour. It is organized by the Christian Reformed Church. We wish her all the best.
They start in Seattle WA on June 30 and finish in Jersey City,NJ. on August 30. http://www.crcna.org/pages/sea_front.cfm
Here is the website in case you want to check it out.
And then I found this picture yet from when Jordan and me went snowmobiling on the Island. It looks like that is all over for another year. So the pictures will have to last until next winter.
It is still pretty busy on the farm, most of the tablestock is gone. And we will be starting to move more seed in the next few weeks.
We are not growing carrots this year, so one thing less to get ready for. I'm sure it will be lots busy anyway. Hope you guys have a great weekend..........

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.