Enjoying ther celebrations....................

A few more pictures of the Harvest Gathering......................
Can you spot me on the trailer????

Bobcat fans......................

The highlight of Sams visit was seeing three bobcats..............he's just like his Daddy lol! So funny...I thought the top picture was hilarious with them both stood together admiring the Bobcat ;) Do boys ever grow up?????? I think Lloyd just wanted a little boy so he could get to enjoy Mighty Machines and get excited over diggers again!

The Harvest Gathering................

This afternoon we took our younger three children to the Harvest Gathering at the local garden centre.......it is an annual event (one of the first events we went to when we arrived in Edmonton in 02) and is always in aid of A Safe Place......the local womens shelter...........)

There is corn to eat, coffee/ juice and cookies, colouring, face painting, tractor and trailer rides.....popcorn............and lovely Acapella music.....a quartet that was just wonderful!

Abigail surprised me by pointing to the singers and saying 'they're a quartet!' I would love to say she learnt this from me...her homeschooling 'teacher' but alas no......it was from Ruby......on Max and Ruby ;)

The dark side...............

Try this M&M's game.....how many movies can you find in the picture?????

http://www.mms.com/us/dark/index.jsp

Mmmmmm cafe latte..............

Oh boy I need this coffee:

Aaaaaah that was good!

Time for another Dad?????:

Reading time...............

Lloyd bought a cd the other day of classical music to listen to while reading......I thought this was hilarious because the only time he ever gets to read is in the bathroom.....so unless we put a stereo in there he won't be listening while reading ;)

This reminded me though that I haven't read a book for weeks...I always have a book 'on the go'...fiction I mean, but the last few weeks have been so busy and I've been preoccupied with getting the new homeschool year off to a flying start...and with our trip......I've been dipping in to non-fiction, homeschooling books and my running book and a few others...but no fiction......

So tonight I plan to go through my bookshelves and picka new book to read....I have quite a few I haven't yet read....I like to be prepared for when I finish a book :) I think I will soak in the bath and get into a new novel!

What are you reading right now??????

Happy Birthday Oliver............

...............for yesterday!!!!!

Yesterday my baby Nephew turned 15!!!!!! FIFTEEN!!!! Where did the time go????? Boy that makes me feel old!!!

Happy Birthday Oliver....we couldn't phone yesterday because the boys didn't get home until after 5pm which is midnight your time......so we called.....and called..............and CALLED today and it was constantly engaged!!!! WHY?????

So Chris was really disappointed not to speak to you and wish you a Happy Birthday.........

But we were thinking of you!!!

We miss you!

Lots of Love Aunty Jane and the gang :)

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PS the patriotic red and blue is just for YOU :)

Fall is here..............

So Fall is here. The weather this weekend is gorgeous...it's windy out but its a really warm breeze.........gorgeous blue skies...........I love it! The trees are beautiful............

Next weekend is supposed to be warm too so I think we will do our Fall pictures and also maybe go to the Devonian Gardens again........

Above shows our well with a backdrop of Fall leaves.......and the bottom picture is the pond with the front woods beyond it.............one of our Grouse families ives in this wood......another lives in the woods the other side of our land........the young Grouse were on our driveway yesterday when we returened from picking the boys up......they are so cute.......big now but you can still tell they are babies :)

The girls are back in town.............

Its lovely having my girls home again :) they came with me while I strolled around taking photographs of the Fall colours.

Tha last pictures shows the girls fighting over a stick ;)

Creation.................on a Sunday morning

Sunday morning..............lazy day................I'm not dressed yet......Lloyd and the children are outside cleaning out the chicken coop....nice job :) So I'm hiding in here :) but then I get the nice job of cleaning up after the dogs later......and its been raining a lot this week so it won't be a nice job!

Abigail is painting at the table....roses and clouds with crows..............

Susie is cleaning out the rabbits........the rabbits are running around the garage right now...............

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Ok so blogger wouldn't let me post so its now an hour later and I have cleaned up after the dogs, showered and dressed, tidied our room and pottered about and blogger STILL won't let me post grrrrrr

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trying again!!!!

Snow is black I tell ya!!!!!

Sometimes people come into your life and drive you nuts.....its like it doesn't matter what you say they ALWAYS have to disagree.......even if its quite obvious that you are right..and everyone else agreed with you....

Why are people silly like that?

Its like yesterday I said fresh snow is white and this other person is like 'no it's black!!!' Of course we weren't talking about snow but the topic we were discussing was as black and white as the colour of fresh snow............not that snow is black and white...............

lol can you tell its morning????????????