Hello to all of you after a long break!!! I think I have keep up with this blog monthly since Heidi was born. I know I have missed a month here and there since but never this long. I just seemed like I was getting burnt out with it even though I know I just update about our life here but I do feel like I need some inspiration to write and there just hasn't been. Now that school has started again I feel like I'm ready to get back to this. So I will try my best to highlight our summer. So back to May I don't have anything written down so it will just been what I can remember. I guess that's the important things right? School ended for us at some point in May. I don't remember when. 3 of us mothers from the youngest class made a teddy bear picnic lunch for there last day. We served lunch outside on picnic blankets and made brown sack lunches and then played with the children. May was also garden planting time along with flowers. It was so much fun to do that again after not doing it for a year. We put lots of bark about the trees, compost in the flower beds, sprayed roundup, and mowed lawn. June was spent getting ready for a big trip, going on that trip, and recovering when we got home. The first weekend in June we had a garage sale in our garage. We meaning Vicky, Carissa, and I. The next was spent packing everything for the trip and Vicky did the garage sale again the next weekend. We left to Northern Alberta on June 12. We pulled out trailer with all the cabinets for folks new house they are building. After 3 very long days we arrived at folks Monday evening. We spent the next week and a half with family and friends. We where sad to leave but it didn't feel like home any more and we needed to come home pulling our trailer with the last of our life from Alberta. We took it a little slower coming home and stopped at Megan's for night and then stopped for a few hours at the Soo Locks and watched a boat go through. Also about 2 weeks before we left another puppy joined our family. Another Basset hound this time a girl which we have named Frieda. She is mostly black and white with a little bit of brown and such loooooong ears. We love her to bits! July was filled with normal life. Swimming in the pond, mowing lawn, weeding the garden, watering flowers, and being with family. One big thing for us is that we raised just over 100 laying hens. We got them as chicks. We had 3 different kinds and we sold all of them in a matter of a few weeks. We did keep some for ourselves. Plus we have about 75 on order for next year. We also got turkeys as chicks that we are raising for Thanksgiving dinners. We will keep one or so for us and sell the rest. And we have 50 pheasants that where on order but they don't leave till about October. August was sweet corn month. Carissa and I did ours together and then about a week later we helped Vicky with hers. We had vet appointments for the dogs and eye appointments for the girls. Nigel had an appointment on the phone with an allergist for a bad reaction he's been having and now we have an appointment for a skin test in October. I don't have my hopes to high they will find something but we will see. Also have spent my time doing peas and green beans for the freezer. I've made salsa, pizza sauce, and homemade tomato soup which let tell you is the best thing I have ever tasted!!! Now I'm trying homemade ketchup. Well the garden is almost cleaned up. The potatoes, onions, peppers, tomatoes, and pumpkins (which are currently being sold at the end of the driveway with much success) are pulling out of the ground. I still have a few carrots and some herbs I need to look after. Well I guess that ends our busy summer. School started today and will be back to keeping this blog up monthly now. Please excuse any spelling mistakes as I have a little girl who had so much to say while I was doing this. Till next time........
