Port Dover on Friday the 13th

Jenna Rose

Hello, my name is Jenna Rose Huitema. You can see me with my very proud parents Jamie-Lynn, and Rick. I was born on June 11, 2008 at 10:08am. I weighed in at 7lbs, 5oz...and everyone says i'm a healthy happy baby. Can't wait to see all you real soon.

New foal at Age's farm

Age's mare had a foal on Friday evening during a thunderstorm.

Catching a Swarm

Here is the swarm in the branches of the tree above the hive. There must be hundreds of bees here who have made a new queen and subsequently left the hive with the old queen to start a new one. We hope to capture this swarm and put it into a new hive box to start a new hive. Swarming is a common occurrence but this is the first time we have experienced this.
Mike and Age watch us walk towards the tree where the swarming bees are located. Marie and Aukje were also there to watch and take pictures.
Johnny lifted Bert and I up in the tractor loader to reach the swarm of bees.

Shaking the swarm into the beehive and hope that we have the queen.

Johnny, Jack and Isabel's birthday party

These three were so excited about their birthdays that they couldn't look at the camera!
Jack and Matty
Lindsay and Dominic

Wyatt and Jericho
Stacey and Jakob

Lindsay and Samantha.

May flowers

I'm sure most of you have seen these flowers, but they (our wedding tulips) have finally achieved full bloom! It's just too bad the squirells at 90% of our plantings...

Shawn's birthday party

Kyle looks entertained by Mike and Richard.


Shawn and Monique's new deck was done just in time for the party!
It was a nice sunny day with a cool wind.

Shawn had a very unique birthday cake in the shape of breakfast!

Flooding

Because of the rain and melting snow the creek that runs through our farm overflowed its banks and the bottom half of two of the hives were under water with another hive tipped right over.



When the creek level went down we were able to go and have a look at the damage. Surprisingly there were still bees in all three hives although the hive that was tipped over didn't have many bees that survived and it will be surprising if any of the hives survive. Luckily we still have three other hives at our farm that weren't affected by the flooding.

Easter Sunday

Elizabeth and Roxie.
So where do these ideas come from? One minute a discussion on determining the baby's gender was brought up. Need fishing line? Well, Bert still had his fishing pole in the back of the truck. So with Jerry's wedding ring the test was executed (in rather an unusual way).

Trip to Jamaica

Dave & Linda all dressed up by the beach.

"Little George" the crocodile

Y-S Falls

Appleton Rum factory - almost didn't make it out of there!!

Swim-up bar at the resort - that was sooo cool!

Gathering coconuts by the beach.

Sampling coconut milk - ewwwww!

The main lobby at the resort - RIU Tropical Bay.

Locals wandering about on the Black River.

Tips for posting on the blog

When you login you start at a place called Dashboard. Then you click on new post for the Huitema blog. You can also edit previously created posts, or delete any doubles that you make (hummingbird, I deleted your double post). If you save your post without publishing it is saved as a draft. You can then go back and edit it and then post it. You can also clean things up by deleting drafts you have no intention of posting. Finally, Carly and Marianne have admin privileges and go fiddle with anyone's post.

So you are at the page for adding a new post. Write a title. To add pictures there should be a picture icon (mouse over the icons, hold it still for a few seconds and words describing what the button does should pop up). Then you upload your photos.

You can see a tab - one labeled Edit HTML which is where you can directly edit the HTML of the page. The other tab is Compose, this one shows the picture instead of the code for the picture and may be easier to work with. Fianlly, Preview lets you see what the blog would look like, you can't edit this preview, be sure to click Hide Preview so you can save your post and publish it.

Finally, "Labels for this post" are where you can give your posts generally subject information like: humour, trip, Australia, summer, dog etc. If things are tagged consistently (with good general tags) it means you could go and pull out all the posts tagged trip.

Finally, if there are other Huitema's that want in on this blog thing, send me an e-mail (or Marianne) so we can send you an invite. Then you automatically get added to the blog.

Sorry about the doubles. I was trying to figure out how to put text with each pictue and accidently doubled up the posts. Marianne, - your input on correctly posting text would be great - you wouldn't have to see two of everything then and the text would look right.
Stef

Our trip to the Dominican

The swim up bar.

Two birds in the hand are worth four in the bush.

John & Jack - relaxing.

High on a mountain top.

Local residents' front yard.

Recess at the local school.

Just a t-shirt & a hat.

In Puerto Plata.

Snorkeling.

Carriage ride into town.

At the resort - John, Gina & Jack.

Garibaldi Neve Traverse

So last weekend I did the Garibaldi Neve traverse. This was a 45km trail over glaciers and a permanent snowfield (the neve). I went with friends from the UBC outdoor club. We stayed in two huts - Sphinx hut and Elfin Lakes hut. The trip was unbelievable, the views were fantastic and the weather was gorgeous. Here are two skiers skirting the base of Mount Garibaldi before we descend onto the Neve.


Here I am with my pack when we skied out from Elfin Lakes hut. It was a warm day even on the snow and I was working hard, hence the t-shirt.