Warm weather

We had very nice weather in Holland and went to cool off in the water basin

Esmee & Marc

This rainwater is used to water the plants in the greenhouses.

Walnut

Rien planted this tree when we lived there, it was about 50cm

Markt

Silvia, Arie & Rianne

Nostalgia

Broad Beans making freezer ready

We used to not like them but if picked at the right time they taste very good.

To the sauna with Nel, Ada & Jolanda

It was a whole day outing and a lot of fun.

I saw 5 different sauna's here (we tried 2)but maybe there were even more. We had a good lunch and were outside most of the time.

More Family

Marc, Rinze, Bart and Anne
Gaby Marc & Sanne

Family

Arie, Arjo,Huib, Paul (Ammerlaan) Anniek, Jose(v.Dalen), Henk, Marije & Ma

Nel, Arie, Pa, Monique, Arjo, Huib, Paul

Sign of the times

I've never seen this many houses for sale in De Lier
Many people want to live in this village, all our brothers & sisters live within 5 km of each other, so does most of our extended family

2 for sale near my mom & dad.

The prices are still very high though

Father's day

My Dad
Rien's dad

Windmill and water birds

Groeneveldse molen


I biked a lot with my mom


Blue Herron

Nest from meerkoeten

't Woudt

Mini

Marc would like to drive a car like this

Jozien

We met Rien's counsin Jozien in 't Woud Our family follows her "Keeper of wild places" blog

Lots of bikes in 't Woud for the "Boerol" an art festival.

Fly to the Netherlands

Lots of leg room
Sunrise in Amsterdam

Grade 8 Graduation

Last Monday's Practise for today

Gake's graduation

The Kingdom of Heaven is like purple Loostrife

The mustard plant in the Middle East is like purple Loostrife here.You can't get rid of them and they keep advancing even against your will. Interesting comparison, we learned this from RVL in Waterdown. Luke 13:19

Downtown Drayton

This is obviously a farming community

Bonnie Lou's

After the swimming pool we went to Floradale for coffee


The restaurant is in the old hardware store/post office

The table legs were old sowing machines

We had the only one that still moved

Country Bait

Dirk & Teresa farm worms


They also sell the droppings as fertilizer

Sunday, Church and BBQ

Sometimes on Sundays we see a buggy on our road

A nice day for half sun / half shade

Dirk

Making clear pictures in the shade with the new camera from some of our friends.

Saturday night Haircut

Outside so no messy clean-up

Visiting with Karina & Trish

We were not supposed to visit with Jaden but he had other plans

For the fun of taking pictures