Family Bonding part 3

 

continually the snow is blowing around

 

 

making this big snowbank even higher

 

 

we can walk over the snow to our trouble area

 

 

 

even the lower area is above the gates

 

 

you can see the snow blowing in this corner

behind the board where the blower intakes are,

 it is filled with snow

 

 

That is why the tubes have snow in them

here we are vacuuming the snow out of the Isocells

we had to empty the shop vac 5 or 6 times

we worked together in the cold

these times we call: family bonding

 

 

 

we are trying now to put Agril cloth around the intake

hopefully that works



Classifier

We had the classifier This cow has 88 points

we do this every half year or so

Snowbanks around the barn

 Marc has gone regularly to his job on his snowmobile

 

 some days it is almost to cold

 

 

the wind has changed a bit,

so there are now banks on the other side of the barn too

 

 

not much on the back

 

 

But the south side has still grown a bit higher

 

Sun Dog

 

A sun dog, see the rainbow-like reflections on both sides of the sun

 

 



Another Snow Day

These pictures are from Saturday, but it looks about the same today

There is quite a bit of snow in the shed



and high snowbanks in the back

 

don't need this equipment for a while yet

 

 

there are much higher snow banks behind these

 

 

we need to blow before we can get out

 

 

not only machinery gets covered by powder snow

Trouble with powder snow

Here is a video for you to see the snow beside the barn

The powder snow gets into the inlet for air
so snow gets into the air tubes and they come down a bit, opening the barn
not a good idea when it is this cold.
Rien vacuumed most of the snow out of the tubes, that was a great idea.
now we protected the inlet a bit and hope for the best.

Will guests come to eat the Cake?

 

these are the bottoms

 

 

filled with whip cream / cream cheese

 

 

wild berries or cherries on top

 

 

and 1 with strawberries / blueberry glaze

 

 

This is the view from the front door

 

 

 

and the back window

 

still blowing and drifting

The Barn is smoking

 

It is cold and foggy in the barn

 

 

when the doors open

 

Frozen Milkfeeder

There was no water by the calf feeder so we had to feed te calves manually. I did 1 at the time I the feeder, Rien in the group. That way all the other calves were around him begging for attention

Ready for the Trails

Marc went with Tyler, William and Jan Harm on the trails direction Greenbush

Last Dutch post for a while

 

my mom got lots of bulbs for her birthday

starting Spring indoors

 



 

we like the Dutch stile of beds

Canadian beds are often high and not really one part

 



 

a Lego Christmas village, complete with downhill ski

 



 

for Arie's 50th

when you turn 50 you "see Abraham"

 

 

A view that I love

This is a picture of De Lier

 



 

 

Random People

 

Nick loves to do card tricks

 



 

Tim missed my mom's birthday due to soccer camp

 



 

Annemie is making a quilt from Dutch handkerchiefs

 



 

3 sisters



 

celebrating Arie's 50th



 

 

Henk & Jose