Saturday, March 31, 2018

TenHove


Went to TenHove with the Palmerston Dairy Club


Jersey calves are cute

Friday, March 30, 2018

Good Friday


The last candle was snuffed out


Good Friday


all our thumb prints on the cross


Communion

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Maple Syrup


we went for  a tour at the Hoover place


had pancakes and maple syrup saw a very well made video


walked to the bush


Maple syrup gets into high gear at 5C, it was running


talked about different trees these Ash and Beech were among the maples
and many other varieties


most trees can be tapped every year
40 liters gets you 1 liter syrup


lots of lines crisscrossing 


there is quite a bit of walking involved finding leaks
road trees have a much higher sugar content (4x as much)
more leaves exposed to the sun makes sweeter sap


some leaks are made by squirrels, a small woodpecker, 
young deer chewing or turkeys
some of the damage they know who did it because of wildlife cameras


inside the sap was boiling


lots of wood is used a cord every 1 1/2 hour


and all this hard work gets you Maple Syrup

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Ball's Falls


The Falls still had ice on the sides


this is North west of Ball's Falls


very pretty


Ball's Falls was noisy


and beautiful


Monday, March 26, 2018

Beamsville to Ball's Falls


We saw many vineyards


some had people working in them



this part had the most snow


but we didn't have to put yacktracks on our shoes


often the path was dry, but quite uneven 
I hurt my ankle 2 km in but I had a brace with me  


this part should be nicer in the Spring or Fall


the wind was cool


but it was a nice hike


we started and ended with coffee
we parked our car off the road where it was allowed


the parking fee at Ball's Falls is steep

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Ice in Meafort


Last week we went to see the ice in Meafort


yes there was ice


kind of hard to take an impressive picture


the main thing was that the ice was blue


lots of people were there, to us it was a non event

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Finger Prints


Someone is doing something creative with these


not sure what it will be, likely comes back in Sunday worship soon

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Kimberly to Duncan



we started down by Kimberly
a re-route for the Brucetrail unfortunately a private property owner 
took permission away to go over his land on the top


3.8km was added to the trail, most of it road
and steep


we put our yacktracks on early


roads are not bad to hike in the winter


we came to the bush section, lots of snow


south of the dot was a natural pass


a picture of me


but the pass looked so much more amazing looking back


then we found there was ice underneath the snow
and the girls slid down for a bit
so much fun


following was a challenging part of the trail


followed by easy road hiking


we saw about 10 deer running




Made it to Duncan