Gardening or Work?

So, this is where it's at...my one flowerbed is full or trying to be full...of dandelions...and while they ARE a flower, NOT in MY garden!!! So, 1 1/2 hours later, I managed to uproot all of them in this section, but there's another 20 feet of flower bed that needs this kind of work. And I'm told that it's gardening not work...but after a total of about 9 hours so far (well, Janine helped two days so I'd have to add her 3 hours - make that 12 hours of digging) I think I'm getting closer to the end. It looks lots better without the yellow blossoms...doesn't it??? And I thought I'd put in some pictures of the flowers that are blooming now, that I enjoy and am keeping in the flower bed. And this is our pear tree blooming...we don't know how it's going to re-act to the frost we had last night and last week...but it does have alot of flowers and they smell pretty good. Hopefully we'll have yummy pears to eat in fall.

Rocky Mountains, here I am!!!

Well, it's bean awhile since I've said anything here...'cause I thought my life was kind of boring to all the rest of you bloggers, but this past weekend, the May long weekend, I went on a working holiday. My sister asked for my help at a Christian Doctors & Dentist conference she was involved in (her job) and I got to go with my oldest daughter; we flew to Calgary and drove to Canmore Thurs. morning, and came home Sunday afternoon. We hiked up one foothill, and I was pooped! We went to the hot springs in Banff, a short ride north of Canmore. We toured the town a bit and the old hotel in Banff. And we did do some work...registration, book sales...and met some really neat Christian professionals. But now it's back to the grind...gotta sharpen that nose...laundry, gardening, sweeping, chauffeuring, cooking, cleaning...but it's good to be home with my family again!

What??? No news???

Well, by now you've noticed that I'm not the quickest to post something. Maybe cause my life's a little boring right now; maybe 'cause we're all busy, too busy to write/type or take pictures. This past week I've been working on the accounting for our farm...filing, sorting, cleaning up the 2007 paperwork, besides the laundry, cooking, cleaning, baking. Bible study was at our house this week, the twins had driver's ed on Monday, youth on Wednesday; Janine's started a job Monday at the law office in Morden, and was pretty excited to get her first pay cheque today. The cats are getting poofier and Freckles is just as always...energetic & busy. This bouquet was my birthday present from Abe and I really enjoyed them.

New Year's resolutions!!??

Well, we've added a treadmill to our household...and while we didn't make any resolutions, we are all going to try to work at our fitness...so the challenge is for me to cook well too. And we've put the treadmill in the garage, in order to keep us cooler, and that we don't overheat right aways... So wish us well...some of us NEED this, others want to...

'Twas the night before the night before...

Wow! I got started...let's see how long this is going to keep going. It's December 30th, 2007 and it's been snowing almost all day. So here's the family...Mr. & Mrs. Beans in the front row with the kidneys, limas, pintos, fabas, navy's & mexican jumping beans standing in the back row. As time goes on, we'll add to this blog and to this family. So see you next time....and have a good night!