Some of my Winter Feathered Friends

Downy Woodpecker

Mourning Dove

White -throated Sparrow Junco

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Chickadee

Texas 2011

We are settled in at Falcon State Park where we have camped annually for 8th year! We had a cool spell for about 10 days but it has warmed up once again. This year there are a lot of sandburrs and thorns and Bert is kept busy patching and buying new inner tubes and tires!

Hockey Stars

Hudson /Delhi Beginners

Cooper / Delhi Tykes Brian / Dorchester Novice

In Search of the Tree

On Saturday, December 11, Maaike and Tom and Baby Drayden and Bert and Marianne and Stef and Jack went down Cowpath Road to cut down a Christmas tree. Bert and Marianne said that they had the perfect tree down on the farm but they would help the rest of us pick out and drag the tree to the cars.

Snowmageddon 2010

JL's car...buried in two days snow.

Jenna and Daddy coming home from our nightly walk.

Jenna, Logan, and Daddy playing in Jenna's 'fart' (fort).

The meaning of christmas

Note : sound works best for this one...

Gate

Yes...a gate may not be too exciting, but it completes my garage project.

Many thanks to Jeff and Dave who assisted with this project.

Marijke's birthday party.

Bert enjoying the campfire.
Elizabeth collects firewood.
The girls coming back from their walk.
Johnny and Donna's trailer in the foreground and Bert and Marianne's trailer behind it.
We had great weather and spent a lot of time at the campfire.
Breakfast on Marijke's birthday on Saturday.
Jack catching up on his reading.

Thanksgiving 2010

Matty and Max
Jenna reading to Jacob and Dominic
Isabel and Morgan
Ashlay and Maren

Some Really Old Nostalgia

The Huitema Family.
Leaving Holland .Stef and Mom.
Walking down the "achter tutte"Stef, just turned 2.
Coming to Canada.Isabel - 5 or 6 I guess.
Coming to Canada.
A group photo of the 10 kids .
Coming to Canada.

Nostalgia 2

Carly and AJ playing.....at least Carly was playing!

This was taken at the Western Fair while we were watching the circus performance.

Nostalgia 1

This was taken almost forty years ago.

We went to the beach last week when it was really hot and somebody took our picture.

Nostalgia

Several of us went to visit Aukje (and Pierre) in Quebec. I don't remember the year but if someone lets me know I will insert it later.

Stef having some good clean fun! Once again, I don't know the year.

Taking off the last of the honey

Marianne working on a hive.
Bert tried a new method of chasing the bees out of the honey boxes using a leaf blower. Moderately successful but at least it doesn't anger the bees as much as when we use a brush to get them off the frames of honey.