Man oh man, farming can be really difficult sometimes. I often joke to people that farming is my hobby. But more often than not, it feels like a full time job.
There is always something to tackle here on the farm.
Sometimes its the animals, and you wake up to your neighbors livestock in your yard, or even worse, your livestock in theirs! Sometimes there are projects to be tackled in the house, like preserving vegetables, or preparing for an event. Other times there are trials and tribulations with equipment, or moving animals, the list goes on! Although the work sometime feels endless, I always try to remember how worthwhile it is. A hard day’s work always makes me appreciate the easy days.
That being said, my chances to connect with you folks have been few and far between these days!
During the summer I find myself daydreaming about lazy fall days. In my head, whatever season is next seems to be the easy going one, but that is rarely the case. Even the fall isn’t always peaceful when you have to handle all the preparations for winter…and winter brings a bigger workload…too bad these cows can’t feed themselves!
All that to say, I really appreciate your understanding when there are times that it’s not easy for me to keep in touch.
I have, over the past few weeks, collected some pretty funny tales that I am chomping at the bit to tell you all! Sadly, there have been some things that need my attention that simply cannot wait. I guess that’s what makes this blog a bit different than most others, farming isn’t much of a science…it’s a lot of rolling with the punches and doing what you can, when you can. So that’s what we are doing, same as always. You’ll be hearing from me soon, I promise you that! We have some pretty exciting things on the way! Christmas is right around the corner, and the endless preparations for that will lead to even more stories for you.
As always, if you ever have any questions drop us a line. We love hearing from ya!
Yum, yum, yum! Spicy, fruity, sweet but tart, this pie is all of my favourite things. 
I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but that first pie was an absolute success and I haven’t looked back! My roommate always says that you either have pie hands or you don’t, and I guess I got pretty lucky in that department! I decided to make use of them yesterday. After a few hours and flour all over my kitchen, it’s never a good pie unless the kitchen floor resembles a grist mill, I was ready to feast!
I can always go for a good slice of pie with a cup of coffee. Pop loves it with vanilla ice cream on it, and one of my friends swears it’s better without. Or, if you’re my beau, you come home with some peanut butter ice cream as a topping (not the best combination I will admit, and Pop never fails to tease him about it!). Peanut butter goes with everything, right? Not so much. Speaking of different toppings, I’ve also heard it is excellent topped with a think slice of cheddar cheese!
It’s time! Costumes are on, props are in place, and we all have our ‘creep’ on. It’s time to head to town and see if we can’t spook, slink, scrape, screech, and boo everyone we encounter into quaking in their boots. It’s Halloween! Destination; Fort Edmonton’s Spooktacular. And let me tell you this. It.Is.Fun!
You’d think werewolves, mummies, Frankenstein and his betrothed would be quite frightening for other drivers. Especially with the windows down and all sorts of mayhem pouring out! I had expected our fellow drivers to be startled or gasp in surprise, maybe squeak out an “Oh My!” Nope, not so. As it turns out, this tends to generate uncontrollable laughter. Probably not a good idea while driving. But I don’t get it. I mean, we were pretty creepy! There really ought to have been brakes screeching, cars swerving, cursing, confusion, havoc…all of that. Nothing. I wonder, has the entire world become spook proof?
At one end of the spectrum things are completely family friendly. At the other end, even steely minded adults would find it on the edge of disturbing. You simply need to pick the path that best suits your group. This was the first year that our entire group was over 18, so of course we chose the scariest ‘avenue’ of entertainment available. And we were not disappointed.
Along the edges of this blog you will find pictures of all of our costumes from that evening. Even though Meaghan, Kenny, Brenna and Surya could not be with us, they had fantastic costumes and they sent us pictures of them. I wanted to share them with you here as well. We’ve put their names in the pictures, can you guess their characters? The only one you probably won’t get is Kenny, and that’s because I think she’s being herself.
There are no rules when it comes to Halloween costumes.
