GVT - near Waterloo Airport

Hiking the Grand Valley Trail

lots of water Fowl 

Pretty Weeds

Evidence of Beavers

and they take on some big trees

lost the road for a bit, trying to get back on track

for a while, real close to the river

Advent decorations

The church is beautifully decorated

the first Advent message was "Hope"

Sewing Machine

There are signs near Conn

otherwise no one would find this place

They sold me a new sewing machine

business is usually "word of mouth"

I'll be going back here to take a lesson

Quilt Trunk Show

saw some very nice quilts

loved this kind of Technic 

It kind of weaves

a block of a "family of quilts" is 

a leaf, a plaid, a dark, a medium and a light

now a days Rosemary makes a lot of  applique quilts

Hoar Frost

Always looks so pretty

after fog gets frozen on the trees

glad to have a working camera again

morning sky

Dentist

Marc went to the Dentist today

He had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled

Ouch!!

a Foot of Snow

So beautiful

snow makes everything bright

thankful for clean roads

Light Dusting

It's time for leek

and Kale

yesterday I harvested the Celery roots and stalks 

today the snow starts to cover everything

always pretty

Moppen

These are still our favourite cookies

Moppen

600 gram AP Flour

300 gram Sugar

1 lbs Butter

1Tbsp Baking Powder

2 tsp salt if no salt in Butter

mix in food chopper

roll into sausage shape

cut into cookies

bake

325F 22 minutes

The Trees of the Field

Coming to the end of the fence line

Rien picks up a piece to bring to the Williams Farm

we anticipated this one to fall more into the field

but it is actually perfect the way it is

wide Load

last few Leaves

there are still grapes on the vine

but the sky looks like winter is coming

the last few leaves on the tree by the slide

and a few forgotten apples

Apple Juice

 

Rien went and had our apples pressed,

the apples in this picture are from the next client

 

we had 8 green boxes of apples

 

 

this is our juice, bagged in 1 litre bags

it is yummy

the video shows the juice being bagged

 

 

Shower and Flowers

 

Shower game, drawing on your head

Angie in a gown, bouquet, table and candle

 

Kelsey's and mine

obviously, we didn't win

 

with Poot and Freeeman ladies

 

Eden helped

 

and Ivy entertained

 

the Bride to be

 

sweet Robyn

 

the shower was yesterday

today we were making Flowers

so we are still in wedding mode