Bert and Marianne "dressed up" for Stacy and Jeff's annual Halloween party.

A practice picture. Stef in the corn maize.

Hello from Stef

Just signed on to the Blog. Just practising

While I was visiting Carly in Vancouver last week we went for a 54 kilometer bike ride.

Here is the Peanut Butter Ice Box Squares:

18 individual graham crackers, divided
3/4 cup butter
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/4 cups grahham crumbs
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter

Icing
2 Tbsp. butter
3 Tbsp. smooth peanut butter
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
2 Tbsp. milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Line ungreased 8-inche pan with 9 of the graham crackers. Combine butter, sugar, milk and vanill in large saucepan. Bring to boil on medium-high heat; cook 5 min. Remove from heat.

ADD crumbs and peanut butter. Pour mixture over graham crackers in pan. Cover with remaining 9 graham crackers. Set aside to cool.

Icing
MEANWHILE, beat butter and peanut butter in large bowl until well blended. Add icing sugar, milk and vanilla; mix well. Spread over cooled mixture in pan.

Makes 36 servings.

Jericho and Wyatt playing at Sonja's.

After our walk we thought we should surprise Sonja at her house and drop in for tea.

Marie and Lindsay during our walk at Bert and Marianne's farm.

Thanksgiving Day walk.

On Monday several of us went for a walk to the back of Bert and Marianne's farm.

Thanksgiving day

Indeed another beautiful October day. Seen above is the family photo taken after dinner, with Nick arriving just in time to add his mug.
Earlier in the day, the weather provided an opportunity to work on the soybean harvest. Above, Jeff is seen taking a short break with Bob, Roxy and myself. You really couldn't buy a better day.

The weather was beautiful this thanksgiving.

Stacey arrives.

Urban Farmer

Here, Rick is enjoying a beautiful fall day working his gardens. Also seen is Burrito.

Elizabeth's Truck

Elizabeth has a new truck!

Johnny and Jericho enjoying the toys.

Mike and Sonja washing the many dishes after supper.

Shawn, Age and Monique having their supper after chores were done at the farm.

Mike and Kyle having a drink.

Marie, Elizabeth and Marie's company from Holland.

Isabel in our back room after supper.

Jack sitting near Bert's desk at the birthday party at Bert and Marianne's.

Johnny having a quiet moment after supper.

Marianne, Ashlay and Donna having their dessert at the birthday party for Marianne.

Bill Monk

So I found this neat web ap, Bill Monk. Its a 'social banking' site - you create an account (with friends) and when you split a bill it tracks who owes who how much. It also keeps track of lending books and DVDs etc and you can upload info using a phone (say when you're at dinner and you want to remember the bill). The 'take a tour' gives a pretty good explanation.

The next morning for Sunday brunch.

In Matty's backyard having a chat

The Aunties and Ash

Matty's 50th, July 1st

Hey Everyone, thought I would finally try and put the photos of Matty's party on the Blog - Matty, I know you don't like this photo, sorry! But it's the only one I have of you lookng at the camera!

Marijke showing off the results of her application of the tar on the foundation of her future home.

This picture was taken at the back of Marijke's little cabin.

This is Marijke's temporary home while her "real" house is being built.

This picture of our canoe and Brad's kayak was taken from the top of the Baron Canyon in Algonquin Park.

Bert with his canoe at Algonquin Park when he went interior camping/canoeing with some friends last week.

Isabel phoning home from Aukje's patio.

There were so many scenic babbling brooks that we lost count.

What a great bicycle ride on the second day. We went approx. 54 kilometers that day and 26 kilometers the day before.

Found the names.

Isabel and Aukje pointing to the Huitema name on the plaque.

This is the pavilion that houses the plaque with the Huitema name on it.

This is the section of the bike path that was built on abandoned railroad lines. The Huitema family donated some money for the buildiing of this wonderful bike path in memory of their parents.

Isabel, Aukje and Marianne started on the beautiful bike path in Granby but before too long the seat of Marianne's bike needed raising and a kind gentleman assisted us (actually he did it) and we were soon on our way again.

Hup Holland Hup!

What an exciting world cup thus far...be sure to be watching Sunday at 3:00 (edt) for Holland vs Portugal.

Skype and An Inconvenient Truth

There's a free internet phone program called Skype. You need a microphone and speaker for the computer or a headset system. I know my housemate prefers the little headset system. With Skype, you can call other people running Skype for free, anywhere in the world. If you have or install Skype and want to talk to me, e-mail me and I will give you my username.

Also, if you are running the program Skype, you can call any phone in North America for free. So I can run Skype, and call my parent's home phone and talk for free and they don't need to be using Skype. This will only be available for the rest of the year (but Skype to Skype calls will still work after that for free).

Finally, I just saw the movie An Inconvenient Truth which was really good and very educational.

Kite flying

Carly watching Bert's kite.

Tegan and Bert

Tegan having a conversation with her uncle Bert.

Heavy discussion?

Watching

Watching the Huitema "show".

Birthday girl.

The birthday girl!

The Band

Great music!!

Jivin'

The band's music was too hard to resist and Marijke and Carly just had to give it a whirl.

Birthday party

Maaike and Tom took some time off from fishing to talk with the birthday girl.