Split

It's 15C and we're splitting wood

Applesauce

We have 41 jars made, that should be enough.

White

The first real snow of the season.

Chain-saw

Working on next year's woodpile.

fire

A small fire started in the debris. Karissa made this picture that just captures the moment. Harry is reading the instructions on the extinguisher. Trevor is removing the leaves.

Fruit

The farming game is great to learn about borrowing money, you get promissory notes (Marc calls them sorry-notes). But fruit makes you more money then cows, different then real life.

Sausage

This will be a 200' sausage

Marc made pictures from the cab of the harvester.

The weather is threatening

Start of the bag for the corn-cob meal.

Inside

The Heifers and dry cows go inside for the winter.

Lely

Rien put a new route in the robotic scraper to clean a little more. It seems to work.

Fish + Laundry

Don't you just love these colourfull sheets?

We had "lekkerbekjes" at the Farmersmarket in St-Jacobs. It wasn't busy.

Seasons

This is our current background on the computer, fall.

Farm photo

We like the way the farm looks from this angle. I finally could take a good picture with the cows in the foreground.

Logs

Picking up logs on the edge of the cornfield.

Firewood

Preparing for the coming winter. Dry firewood, cut last year goes into the basement.

hydro

We started milking early for at 7.00 AM the hydro would go off. It was quite cool this morning, you can see that the roof and the fields white.

trash or treasure

Yesterday at the sale we aquired a box with "old stuff". It had magazines in it from the 1940's. All for the grand total of $3.

Soybeans

We took the soybeans off today. The head of the combine is 9 metres wide.

License please

We went to a farm Auction in our neighbourhood. To register for a number you needed to show your drivers license. But not everyone here drives a car. So I heard the office people ask: "license please" and when he said he didn't have one their next question was "name of the horse?"

spanish

We went to the Spanish church La Senda Del Amor in Toronto. These people have a church community that is very welcoming and warm. Rien got a hug from the pastor who was installed this evening. They also had great food. This is a lady from Ecuador who had made a recipe from her homeland. Most women were short so I was to tall to see myself in the bathroom mirror.

This was supposed to be the last picture taken yesterday of good beans for the forcast was frost. It was overcast so the beans are still good today.

orange

Some of the trees had the leaves blown off yesterday.

Canoe

Here you see Rien in action on the Conestogo river near Glen Allen

Glen Alen

Going downstream was easy, upstream was hard, specially where we were going in circles where a tree blocked the river.

campfire

Last night we likely had the last campfire of the season. The temperature went down to 15C. We are having a beautifull Thanksgiving weekend!

Conestogo river

With the canoe on the Conestogo river, the trees are pretty, the water is gross.

cows again

Colour

Pasture

The cows are enjoying the sunshine in the pasture.

companionship

Keeping warm

fallout?

Wonder how many of these fall kittens (if any) will survive their first winter

Rhitm

Olga and Marc making music together.

fall

Every year I take pictures of the same tree when the leaves are colouring

This yellow plant was given to us by Jaap & Hennie in the summer before he passed away. We have to keep it indoors in the winter but it is a joy in the summer. Our friends Jaap & Pauline grow them for the wholesale market.

pedicure

The cows are getting their hoofs trimmed today.