Send off with a Blessing

 

already for the children's sermon the Aaronic blessing was recited

 

 The Lord bless you and keep you;
 the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.

 

After the service a game show

 

This is your Life

 

starting with firsts

meeting, marriage & baptism

 

some greetings from farther away

memories from Kentucky

 

some history

 

and some unscripted heartfelt thanks

 

a few surprises

 

roomies

a song

 

Bill was going to pray but

some sharing from the heart came first

 

 

sent off with the Blessing

 

The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.

 

Decorating for Goodbye

  

Natural theme

Making animal tracks

Shed footing

 

Deciding where everything goes

 

and cement already on the first day

 

because we are not on level ground the shed will be in 3 parts

going up hill

 

The garage has an open concept these days

 

always feels like something gets done

when they're pouring cement

First Cut

 

Tuesday we cut pasture and alfalfa fields

 

 

 

Marc stayed home and helped with first cut

 

83 acres were cut

 

Brad's merger broke down so we got to use this cool machine

 

Rien was flipping the outside rounds

he had a nice sunburn

 

around 5 the light was perfect to take some more pictures

 

they were done around 10PM

 

after that we still covered the silo

Crazy Busy Morning

 

The yard is full

 

Everywhere they are working

 

Alvin is sawing through the roof

 

Adam is ripping up the concrete

 

There's only a little piece left from the old shed

the panel for the generator is there and needs to stay

 

But around the panel things have to go

 

It will look very different

 

Not sure if this floor needs to go, but frost has lifted it

so likely needs to be replaced too

Morning light

 

Irises look pretty in the morning light

 

flowers are almost see-through

 

love this time of day

 

 

 

 

It will get more hectic later, first cut today

Bruce Trail Finnegans to Rattlesnake Point

 

It started with not so easy to negotiate rocks

 

But most of the day the path was nice

 

only a little road

 

going under the 401

 

over the rail roads in Kelso

 

Trying out the ski slopes in the wrong season

 

This is by Milton, you can see the 401 down there

 

this was such a beautiful part of the trail

 

amazing how close to the edge we hiked

 

almost done and still smiling

 

at Finnegans golf course

 because it is $10 per car instead of $6.75 pp at the conservation area