Holstein Banquet

 

Henriette helped hand out some awards

 

 

Rien picked up our award

 

 

The Granny award 

Hiking the last km

 

There were pears, apples grapes and other berries

beside the trail

 

 

Sun all day long

 

 

at lunch time we finished the Maitland trail

 

 

we had lunch looking at this mansion

 

 

Then for the afternoon we hiked 12+ km on the rail-trail

 

 

It was easy hiking but almost 20km in total is a lot of hiking

 

 

The rail-trail can be done by bike too

although there was one tree that we had to climb over



Maitland River flowing fast

 

high water

 

 

and fast flowing

 

 

due to lots of rain

 

 

still some nice colours

 

 

 

the footbridge in Goderich close to where we started

 

 

 

lots of nice lookouts

Finishing the Trail

Classis Meeting

 

we got lots of papers to look through

 

Do you know the girl on the left Olga & Angie?

 

 

Used to come here with youth stuff

 

 

such a nice back yard, but such crappy weather

 

 

I had taken boots along to go for a hike but it was very muddy



Reapers

These were small sweet potatoes, gathered after the harvest
real gleanings

 Loud banging while cutting vegetables at Reapers in Moorefield

 



Babysitting for Coffee-Break

Last week was the first week and there was lots of crying.

This week was way better.

Fall at it's best

 

Lots of wood laying around

 

 

Filled with mushrooms

 

 

These green sprigs are ready to come out in the spring

 

 

 

what they are looking at is not a rock

 

 

but a large puff ball, they are edible but not yummy

 

 

love the water and the colours

 

Maitland

 

 Some people pictures

 

 

Because Henriette was there

 

 

I am actually in several pictures

 

 

We like to get our feet wet

they get warm from all the hiking

 

Maitland trail 3rd day

 

 



The trail is often close to the river



Sometimes through a farm field

 

a lot of up and down

 

 

this time with beautiful coloured trees

 

 

the trail leads through little streams

with slippery rocks

 

 

under the highway

 

and for a little while along a road

 



Start Coffee-Break & Story-Hour

 

Our speaker the first morning was Glynis Belec

 

 

She spoke about "staying a Float"

with her PFD or in her analogy Jesus

 

 

 

Glynis is a writer and is just starting out as a speaker

I love it when people share their own story

thanks Glynis!