another try

here goes

I'm like a dinosaur trying to enter the modern world. I just got a digital camera (a Canon powershot) and am experimenting with it and thought I would try to post a picture but then realized the whole blogger has changed - so we'll see if this posts properly. Carly, just a quick question - I seem to have created a separate blog (Marijke's blog) at some time in 2006 - can I delete it?
And there's some really great pictures on the blog - it's good to keep up with what's going on at the home farms - next I may try some pictures of my house and dogs and whatever - if this works.
(Okay I downloaded a picture but I don't think it worked - I checked the preview and there was no picture but I'll 'publish post' anyhow)

Motorcycle Ride

On the long weekend I went for a motorcycle ride with another member in my department Chris and his girlfriend Suzanne. We went riding up part of Mount Baker in the states. Here is a picture of Carly and Suzanne in front of the mountain:

And here's a picture of the bikes. Mine is the one on the right.


It was a great ride up a twisty road and at the top there was even snow on the ground on the roadside. You can see from the pictures there is still a whole lot of mountain above us. There were a lot of motorcycles doing the same trip and no wonder, it was a great ride.

New foal

Viola and her foal in front of Age's horse barn. She was born on Saturday morning.









Monique and Bert put Viola in the barn and then got the foal used to some handling. Viola was in the barn and was not impressed being away from her foal.














Viola's two other daughters are just dying to be all together, but it is a bit too soon for that.










It has been quite dry around here and Bert decided to water our garden.

Birthday Party!

What's a birthday without cake...?

Anyone care for a swim??

Cooper & Hudson @ Beppe and Opa's House

Beppe & Opa looked after the boys for a day. It is a good thing little kiddies are raised by relatively young parents. We were pooped out by the end of the day.

Stef

Cute goats

Monique's goat had two kids and they are so cute.

Friesian Horse

We spoke to one of the knights after the show and he confirmed for us that this was a Friesian horse like the ones that Age raises. It was the only Friesian horse in the show.

A Knight and his Friesian horse.

Carly took this beautiful picture of a knight

and his Friesian horse at Medieval Times.

Medieval Times in Toronto

This past week Carly was in Ontario attending a conference in Toronto. While she was at home on the weekend Bert, Marianne and Carly went to a dinner/show called Medieval Times. We were served a great meal during a fantastic show based onmedieval times with lots of horses and knights. Here we are waiting for our meal.

Carly on bike

Carly took Bert's motorcycle out for a ride since she was missing her own bike in Vancouver.

New House

This old house

Doesn't take long

The beginning of the end.

Well, the end is near for the ol' homestead for (one) sect of the Huitema family. It joins a long list of photographs and memories spanning nearly 50? years of existance. I'm sure there isn't a soul out there who reads this who doesn't share one of those.

Natural park-like setting

We had to camp at a county park for one night before we could get into Choke Canyon State Park which is situated below San Antonio.

The oil refinery in the background not only made for an unusual camp setting, but the sulphur smell and the noise would not encourage us to stay more then one night here. But there were seasonal campers here!!

Oriole nest on the hydro lines

I had to take this picture for Stef's sake. There was this beautiful Oriole nest hanging from a hydro line and it was swaying in the breeze. This was just outside of a State Park that didn't allow vehicles in so you could walk, bike or take their trolly in to view the bird feeding stations.

The name of the park is Bentsen Rio State Park in Texas.

Historic manual ferry

We came across this manual ferry that would take you over the Rio Grande River to Mexico. And yes, there were customs agents on the American side to check you back in. There was no money wasted on a grand building though, it was a very small shack which could only fit one of the two customs agents inside.

This ferry was manually driven and was the only one of its kind in the U.S. We took our bikes across and then biked about 3 miles to the nearest town.