HELLO SEPTEMBER, IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I SAW YOU LAST.

Life has been good but busy. My daughter Christine, her hubby Joe, James and Daniel all made it back home to Ottawa on Saturday morning, Aug 31th. Both James and Daniel were extra good travellers for a long long car trip.  The house seemed so empty after they left. They were here since August 6th. They are coming back for Christmas.

James kept himself busy with watching videos and playing the Goo Ball game on the smart phone and decorating himself with Cars stickers.

He removed his shoes and used his toes to get his pair of sunglasses from the seat pocket and placed them on himself. He looks pretty cool with his upside down glasses on. 

On Saturday I worked all day at the farm  with my son Vaughan, and George and one of the part time hired hand.

Vaughan  cleaned out the calf bedding and scrubbed the pens while I scrubbed the gates and washed the floor. My husband and the hired hand cleaned out the old bedding in the back of the barn and separated the older heifers, moved 8 of my older heifers that were about 300 pounds out in the back after cleaning the area and putting some fresh bedding. They will be ready to breed.

Then the small calves were moved into the empty large pen and the smaller one moved in their place. Now I had room for all my new calves.
I got 4 new calves in 2 weeks or is it five. It's always such a juggling act moving calves of different stages.

The four kittens and their mother are still around and are eating a lot. The kittens are destroying my tiger lillies. There are no blooms on them so it doesn't matter but they are so funny to watch, fighting with the stems till they break. First they ripped up all the leaves off. The little black ones were so scared of me at first while the two fluffy white and black one were braver. Now they don't hide every time I come out to feed them. I promise some pictures soon.

Yesterday I house cleaned all day, vacuumed, changed the beds and did loads and loads of laundry and made a big pot of chicken vegetable soup I even knitted a bit on my pink scarf until I started to drop a few stitches.

Today I worked at the farm for most of the day again  except for a few breaks. I cleaned in the milking house, shining the milk tank and cleaning in general. So much more to do. My lawn is so long again but it rained so hard all night and part of yesterday. It needs drying to mow.

I seem to be getting lots of energy to burn this week but I'm pooped by nightfall.

Last week I got the results of my 8 blood tests for my 10 year cancer checkup and The doctor was ecstatic at my results. I passed with flying colors. Everything is right smack in the middle where it should be. 100% on all 8 blood tests. No high cholesterol or high blood pressure etc, etc and even all signs of my diabetes is gone.  I changed my eating habits by eliminating anything with soy or soy by-products by reading food labels and cooking from scratch. It eliminate a lot of prepared food that we buy at the grocery store and in doing so, I eliminate a lot of preservative and chemicals.

So sorry again that my blog post is so long but they have been far in between and I had lots to share.

Thanks for visiting and leaving me a comment. I so appreciate that you stop by to visit.

JB

I'VE BEEN DOWN ON MY KNEES ONCE AGAIN

Wow, August  is slipping away and the lawn is still green from all the rain and I've been weeding my large daylily flower bed. It was a lush carpet of green weeds gone to seed. It's unbelievable how fast the weeds went to seed. I've been on my knees till dark for the last two days in between work and I'm almost done that bed.

A family of four cute kittens and the stray mother adopted me this week. The mother had gone into my son's covered entrance to have her kittens and he's a soft hearted man so he cared for them for a month. Everything was OK until the kittens got bigger and started to discover their surroundings and they got scared of the my son's big dog and the whole feline family went missing for a few days till we found them in the hedge by my shed. It wasn't long before the mother came to the barn to steal some of the cat food and milk.  The other barn cats were not impressed.

She came to the house at the back door and I gave her a saucer of milk and I bought some kitten food for the kittens.
They have been very shy and ran away every time I came out. This evening they started to get braver as they have seen me digging in the garden for the last two days and they came and played near me, having fun digging and jumping on the daylily foliage until they got tuckered out. I don't have a picture of the kittens and the mother as my camera battery is on loan for a little while. I'll have to try to find them a good home.The mother is a beautiful long black and white hair cat and is very friendly. She must have been dropped off at the farm when they realized she was pregnant. It happens all the time. They have fleas so they are definitely not coming in my house. I'm very sensitive to  flea bites.

I'm posting some of the many  family photos we took  for the benefit of my family so bear with me.

James getting ready to eat a piece of lemon meringue pie. Can you tell that he's comfortable having his picture taken.

Jordyn came to visit. She will soon be a new mother to a baby boy.

What you see is what you get, folks.

Daniel just discovered that he can bounce to music in his Jolly Jumper. He was quite happy about himself.

Another first for Daniel. He  learned to turn onto his stomach while at mamoo's house and he now turns over at will. This photo was taken at my daughter and son in law's cottage at the lake.Those are my old feet in the background. See my shiny bunion.

James playing a game of Goo Balls on his mom's smart phone all by himself. He can get the level one all by himself.  Don't you just love the way he crosses his leg.

The men having a talk while the women are inside the cottage. Everybody seem to be in relaxing mode.

View of the lake as it was starting to get a bit dark. It's a gorgeous lake

Christine found a ripe tomato to munch on.

Me and Jackie talking away with my finger  moving. I wonder what was I talking about???

Simon and Mira doing the dishes for Mama. I was impressed that they washed and dried the dishes after supper.

Daniel at the church for his Baptism. Don't you just love the white tux.

James never even blinked during the pouring of the water on his head.

Jordyn was given the honour of drying his head.

The Godfather lighting the baptismal candle with the Godmother looking on.

The Godfather and Godmother with their beautiful family.

James was kept busy by two little friends but after a while he went crawling on all fours under the alter.

Look at the top left upper corner of my blog  and click on the Bumblewood handmade button  to meet Meg. She is having a wonderful giveaway you won't want to miss to launch her new business venture. Three handmade lip balm. I entered and I hope to win. You can't win if you don't enter.
Thanks for all your heartfelt comments on my last post. it means a lot to me.
Have a safe weekend and thanks for stopping by.
JB