Lemmon getting bigger
I was reminded that I hadn't mentioned about Harriet's chicken, Rhonda in my last blog. She disappeared for a few weeks back in July and one morning when I went to let the chickens out she'd come home with 4 little chicks in tow. She is an excellent Mum and she looks really funny when they all huddle under her with their little heads popping out!
We cleared a space to get a big delivery of pig feed which not only makes it cheaper but saves us going to the animal food store every other day. The delivery truck was huge and we were amazed how the driver managed to get it up our little drive and blow the feed into the barn.
On the 4th August we celebrated 3 years in Canada by eating ice cream cake, it was good. Now we can apply to become Canadian citizens and have 2 passports if we are successful.
Each year the village we live in has Harvey days in August, this includes competitions, yard sales, Miss Harvey pageant, a parade, fireworks, concerts, dances etc. This year Josh was in the parade again representing the firefighters and Harriet had her 4H show where she had to show everyone what she'd been teaching Max in dog obedience. Max did well in the individual part of the show but was having too much fun playing with all his friends and rolling in horse poo to do the sitting for 1 minute or laying for 3 minutes. he managed to come 4th overall and has to do it all again the end of August in Fredericton.
We were trying to get Josh to throw us candy at this point
We are selling a good amount of pork since we put the August offer on, we have been experimenting with different flavour sausages and we even cured back bacon this week that tasted wonderful. The kids all went on their camps last week so David and I took some days off to surprise Josh by decorating his bedroom. We had good intentions of getting it completed in the time he was away but it didn't quite happen as we had imagined! The big surprise reveal was more of a shock horror where is my room. It didn't help the fact that it took nearly 3 days to get all the lath and plaster off the walls and ceiling before we then had to take up the sloping rotten floor. The boys are now room sharing again while we crack on with it.
Day 1 furniture out, empty room
3 days later lath and plaster off walls
David started taking up 3 layers of flooring then we ran out of time!
The big reveal!!!!!
