Monday, November 30, 2015

GVT - near Waterloo Airport


Hiking the Grand Valley Trail
lots of water Fowl 


Pretty Weeds


Evidence of Beavers
and they take on some big trees


lost the road for a bit, trying to get back on track


for a while, real close to the river

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Advent decorations


The church is beautifully decorated


the first Advent message was "Hope"

Friday, November 27, 2015

Sewing Machine



There are signs near Conn


otherwise no one would find this place


They sold me a new sewing machine


business is usually "word of mouth"


I'll be going back here to take a lesson



Thursday, November 26, 2015

Quilt Trunk Show


saw some very nice quilts


loved this kind of Technic 


It kind of weaves


a block of a "family of quilts" is 
a leaf, a plaid, a dark, a medium and a light


now a days Rosemary makes a lot of  applique quilts

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Hoar Frost


Always looks so pretty


after fog gets frozen on the trees


glad to have a working camera again


morning sky

Monday, November 23, 2015

Dentist


Marc went to the Dentist today



He had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled



Ouch!!

Sunday, November 22, 2015

a Foot of Snow


So beautiful


snow makes everything bright


thankful for clean roads

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Light Dusting


It's time for leek


and Kale


yesterday I harvested the Celery roots and stalks 


today the snow starts to cover everything


always pretty

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Moppen


These are still our favourite cookies


Moppen
600 gram AP Flour
300 gram Sugar
1 lbs Butter
1Tbsp Baking Powder
2 tsp salt if no salt in Butter

mix in food chopper
roll into sausage shape
cut into cookies
bake

325F 22 minutes

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

The Trees of the Field


Coming to the end of the fence line


Rien picks up a piece to bring to the Williams Farm



we anticipated this one to fall more into the field


but it is actually perfect the way it is


wide Load

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

last few Leaves


there are still grapes on the vine


but the sky looks like winter is coming


the last few leaves on the tree by the slide


and a few forgotten apples

Monday, November 16, 2015

Apple Juice

 
Rien went and had our apples pressed,
the apples in this picture are from the next client

 
we had 8 green boxes of apples
 
 
this is our juice, bagged in 1 litre bags
it is yummy
the video shows the juice being bagged
 
 

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Shower and Flowers

 
Shower game, drawing on your head
Angie in a gown, bouquet, table and candle

 
Kelsey's and mine
obviously, we didn't win

 
with Poot and Freeeman ladies

 
Eden helped

 
and Ivy entertained

 
the Bride to be

 
sweet Robyn

 
the shower was yesterday
today we were making Flowers
so we are still in wedding mode