Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Rememberance day

At Marc's school there was an assembly. The grade 7 and 8 sang and did all the speaking. The singing was done really well. They were good to understand and it was a beautiful song: "do unto others....."
To bad there weren't many parents.
At the end the kids put their poppy on the wall.

Marc wore a poppy that he got last year. In May we came back from the Netherlands and veterans joined us. Some talked very enthusiastic with Marc but this guy (Charles Smith) said "never become a soldier, son"

Monday, November 10, 2008

Turning the soil

Rien has only 30 acres (12 ha) to plow this year.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

keep the beat

We had kids (with their parents) come for Coffee. They had a great time playing Marc's drums together.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Bumpy ride

Marc had a PA day (no school) on Friday and spent the whole day with Trevor going back and forth to the field with the manure spreader. They rained out at four in the afternoon.

Friday, November 7, 2008

slipping and sliding

Can you believe it? I forgot my camera. We went curling with about 40 women who'd rarely or (most) had never been curling before. Most fell while trying to push this curling stone to the other side of the rink. We had great fun. We'd seen those people on TV sweep in front of the stone so we did too if it needed it or not.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

It's a beauty

Just wanted to show the temperature, the time and the date. So you know it's true! November 6 and it's a beauty. I was working on a blog for our Israel trip, this time in English. Also reading the journal of Kees Tetteroo during the war. A very thick heavy book (1 1/2 kg) but very interesting.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Indian Summer

The weather is great. Rien is cleaning the calf pens I'm getting the flowerbeds ready for the winter.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

fresh bedding

It is 18C today an excellent day to clean out the calf pens.
The calves like the fresh straw.

Monday, November 3, 2008

harvest


Marc wanted this picture to go on the blog.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween

Marc went around with William.
The neighbour girls came for trick-or-treat.

Making a Jack-o-lantern.