Sam helps out......

Sam helped shovel and carry garbage to the bin...much of the afternoon he wore HUGE workmens gloves and looked so funny!

cleaning up

This afternoon was spent emptying more of the barn, collecting junk from around the acreage (old rusty barbed wire etc etc) and filling up the rest of the bin we hired.....I helped a little and then hid inside 'making tea' for everyone....and then sat by the fire with Sugar and 'supervised' lol!

When I did help, I filled this large orange tarp with garbage and junk - which I shovelled with a snow shovel...bits of dry wall, straw, old toys etc.......then Lloyd and the boys managed to get it into the big bin.....I then used garbage bags which I filled then climbed up the ladder and threw them in.....

Laurence......

Sams turn...

There is no helmet small enough for Sam, so we have to get him a cycle helmet tomorrow - but he had a go today and as he has had lots of practice of driving Lloyds quad, he LOVED driving the small one.....he went too fast though and Lloyd was running to keep up and getting him to brake! As you can see, he loves quadding :) he just needs to learn to look where he's going instead of at Daddy :)

Obsessive compulsive???

Sam sweeping up the driveway this afternoon while I chatted with Christie!

biker girl...

The girls get going.....

House guest B

As well as the spider on the porch, we have another house guest for the next week......SUGAR!!!!! Sugar is my friend Christies dog.....well, WE know she's a dog but Sugar doesn't seem to know she's a dog lol!

Christie and Rod are off on their adventures into the wilderness for a week...complete with dehydrated rations ziplocs filled with toilet tissue - oh and not forgetting Christies pee funnel (don't ask lol!) So their gorgeous dog Sugar has come to stay here for a few days.

So far so good - Christie brought her over just after lunch and she seems to have settled down fine - she sat with me by the fire pit for a while....went for a walk with the girls through the wood.....took an interest in the chickens...met Jasper (who hissed at her lol) and is now curled up asleep.

She's very white (hence the name Sugar lol) but we've noticed that our hands get white after stroking her - so now we're wondering how nuts Christie really is and are wondering if she painted her white!!!! :)

House guest A.

We have this Jewel spider living by our porch light at the moment....YUCK!

Something else for my dad to worry about!!!

On Thursday when we took my quad to Cycleworks to be fixed, we saw a great deal on little quadbikes - we had promised the girls quads since we got ours last year, so we took this opportunity and bought a 50 for Abigail and a 90 for Susie...they were a great price and the helmets were included...so today ew drove in to pick them up, and had the girls fitted for helmets (they both chose the same lol)

They have been on them constantly since we got home - and they LOVE them....but yes, this gives me Dad something else to worry about lol...because he worries about the pond, worries about us on the quadbikes and now has to worry up his Grandaughters on theirs lol!