Farm Chat

The last weeks have been filled with harvesting the high moisture corn , manure spreading , plowing and the regular chores in the barn. We had some calvings and every time .. Chris pulls a heifercalf ....Dad pulls only the bullcalfs!
We are saying that.....when Chris gets his heifer calf's he is looking after his future herd.... and Albert just wants some spending money. Bull calfs are going for $1.50 a pound....... Albert better stays clear of the calving pens.
We did have triplets heifercalfs the middle of September, this is pretty rare to have triplets and then all heifers yet.! Unfortunately the smallest one did not make it through the first week.

Janine and friends dropped in for Halloween, as always Ed and Brenda with the kids came too and give their greetings.
The last weekend of Oct. we had a new experience . Old country Italians were at Joe's farm hunting pigeon around their silo's but the darn birds kept escaping to our silo's so they set up their hunting camp at our farm too......they got some birds and left us with a bottle of wine and biscotties! They were going home happy and have the wifes make pigeon soup.!!
They came all the way from Toronto.....Lots of pigeons there but no hunting allowed.! Next time they would bring the best Lazagna ever.......No pigeon lazagna please.

Three times the Charm!

Ab has been my photo model many a times on my pictures, sometimes just to give my picture a bit of interest. When it comes to have Albert as the main focus..... things just don't go that well. As long as he doen't notice he is the subject...all is fine.... like on Tunnel mountain.

Then we had Thanksgiving... beautiful weather and the young ones doing the dishes.....we went for a walk through the trees to capture the fall colours at Pete and Edie's.....It is tradition( have many pics to show!)) to take a picture of Pete and Ab together between the trees. It is not as easy as you think! Here we go!
The soccer stance!...and I have to coach this grin out of him.








The resistance, arms squared and no smile!
Pete knows.... he just has to be patient and Ab will come around to show his pearly whites!

Bingo!

One for the Album!

Thanks.....and till next year!

Margaret IJsselstein Quilt Retrospective

The Woodstock Museum National Historic site is the venue for The Margaret IJsselstein Quilt Retrospective. The opening reception was on Sept 30 and was attended by family and friends. The introduction was given by Nienke Izurietta-IJsselstein and Helen IJsselstein, who has looked after the many quilts Margaret created over the years. Margaret was in her fifties when she picked up quilting and soon showed she was a master in her craft. Margaret had a gift to be bold and daring with colour, to make fabric flow like paint and was driven to finish each quilt and to start the next one again, full of vigor and focus. Margaret's strong faith and love for flowers are expressed in her quilts. Painting, knitting, sewing, home decorating and cooking were done with the same creative flair.

Margaret passed away this spring and I like you to know her through her quilts, a smart, creative woman.

Albert always had a special bond with Margaret.It was at Sjerp and Margaret IJsselstein's Frieslawn Farm were Albert started his Canadian farm experience .

Happy Birthday Carien

Carien and Mike flew in from Calgary for a week, visiting friends and family.We celebrated her 30th Birthday together with Mike ,Juul and Ton, Pete and Edie and Rachel with her two beautifull girls Emily and Laura. Mike and Carien partied on that night with a dinner hosted by Valentina and the Guelph gang. The next day they went back to Calgary after a busy and fun week in Ontario......It was Mike's first visit to the province...... and a soggy one!
Our love and best wishes always..............any pictures yet?