Saturday, September 30, 2017

Iceculture Hensall


Iceculture started making bowls of ice
people could use them for catering food as a center piece
to make clear ice the water needs to keep moving


In this freezer -9C they carve their ice


They've made ice lounges all over the world
even in Saudi Arabia


we got ready for a trip into the main freezer


We found it quite affordable
for something unique


life flowers get little air bubbles in the ice


Here they made the truck from the Canadian Tire comercial


can only get in on one side


even an air freshener carved from ice hanging on the ice mirror


they made a Disney castle once at Times square
different then this one


a knight


very blue light

Friday, September 29, 2017

Hensall District Co-operative


First time at this company
an enormous amount of bins (315)

there are 3 scales


they are doing a lot with IP beans, eatable beans





Taking out the splits, sort heavy and light
to clear out dirt





beans go through the "eye" 4 times to take out off colour beans





It goes super fast and may take a few extra beans out




fill up of these totes is done by robot




I was impressed with the Co-op

Thursday, September 28, 2017

another Dry Matter Test


It has been very warm, the cows love to be outside in the evening


we went for another moisture test
so Rien took the ax along


chopped 6 plants


starts to look brown a bit


but it sure is wet still
74.7 % a long way to go yet
how the moisture keeps climbing up is a mistery
we may have to go for a 4th test


clouds are moving in and a cool down is expected

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Saskia


Meet Saskia


Sunday afternoon


in the sunset room


Quite a few people came


and they all brought presents


this baby will have lots to wear


Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Sam And Henri


Vows


Speeches


first dance with the little girls stealing part of the show


wrapping 


dancing


lots of dancing


that always looks so scary


Lots of babies at the wedding 
quite a few younger then Emily


more polenaise


It's a wrap

4th cut in the bale


this field was almost hay


Monday, September 25, 2017

Soybeans


Drying fast

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Corn is still wet


We were surprised earlier when the corn tested 68%
So I went to Royalmar with corn from a different field


don't know why they want you to bring 6-8 stalks
when they only use 3


saw some familiar faces


This was cool, filled in planting date and variety 


estimated harvest day and 
how feed values change when you chop higher
that only is for non brown midrib corn 
our corn you use the whole plant

this time 72% so quite wet yet