Sugar bush & Guinea Pigs

After the midweek storm which gave us another 10cm of snow and a day off school the sun is out again. Isaac has now collected a number of litres of maple sap and has spent all today boiling it on his pot bellied stove to make maple syrup.

Here is the result 3/4 jar of syrup. When it's cooled we'll tell you what it tastes like.

Harriet has pampered her 3 guinea pigs she got last year so we agreed to her starting to breed them. Unfortunately they are too old so she needed new young blood. Thanks to kijiji she now has 4 new guinea pigs in 3 days!!!! No more now till the babies arrive.

 This one is Delia, she needs some lessons in socialization and a bit of TLC.

 This is Zoe who will be the breeding female. She was born in December but certainly likes her food and is very friendly.

These two are the boys, Walter is on the right and Vincent with the doody hairdo is on the left. These have a lovely disposition too. 

Our barn is bursting at the seams so we are looking forward to getting the fence up outside so the pigs can live outdoors.

I hear tomorrow is mothers day in the UK, happy mothers day Mums your cards will arrive on the Canadian mothers day in May!

I had a great time at a ladies breakfast this morning at church, over 60 ladies were there and I had a lovely Canadian breakfast of muffins, bacon, granola, boiled eggs, fruit and yoghurt and lots of coffee (except I had tea!). I also went to a seed sale at the botanic gardens in town and for a small entrance fee could take whatever seeds I wanted. I got lots of veggies and some flowers. We started off some of our seeds this week so our windowsills are also bursting.