Marvelous May

May is when everything starts winding down for the summer which is a strange thought as the winter has only just finished, snow tires are packed away till October and we've started planting our veggie plot in between the downpours.

 Harriet was desperate to get the trampoline out again.

 This was the first of all the graduation activities we have this year with Isaac. This was the banquet at Harvey Lions club, we had a turkey dinner followed by lots of toasts and a slideshow. We then drove to St Andrews United Church for a baccalaureate service which was an interesting experience, nearly all the different denominations from Harvey took part in the service in one capacity or another.

 Monday was Victoria Day so we decided even though it was pouring with rain to test our new BBQ box. We roasted a 35lb pig in 4 hours and it was good.

The finished piggie!

A couple of weeks ago Max and Shadow were playing outside and as they were running back up the steps Shadow managed to break his leg. This then started a long process of visiting the vet's, x-rays and an operation to pin and put a rod in his leg. David has made him a cage in the lounge as his crate was too small to spend 2 months recuperation time in especially with a large cone on his head! He has also made a ramp as he can't walk up or down stairs for 2 months either and he is getting rather big for lifting everywhere. Today he has his stitches out and in another 6 weeks another operation to take the rod out of his leg. This means he hasn't started dog agility and instead Max is having to take his place this year. Max is really enjoying himself!

Mud, mud, glorious mud!

Spring is here! At last we are seeing more and more of the wonderful brown grass and even some little green grass shoots and the odd signs of daffodils. That's not to say the snow has finished yet we had a storm a couple of weeks ago and some flurries last weekend and there are still piles of snow in the ditches and woods but it's going the right direction. All this melting means lots of roads flooded out and mud everywhere on the farm.

I've been trying to remember what's been happening since I last wrote, Josh turned 17 and got himself a part time job. It's the perfect job for him at a shop called 'The Geek Chic Boutique' in town. It sells geek stuff!!!!

New hog roasting box

We had lots of piglets born this spring but due to mainly the weather and other unforeseen circumstances we are left with 13 which are all sold. We had some little pigs slaughtered as BBQ pigs and David has bought this roaster box to hire out for hog roast events. We can't wait to try it...yummy.

Our local supermarket is now selling Yorkshire Tea in it's specialty tea section...life is good!

Harriet has been practicing for a drama called 'John and Gretel' she did a good job of being the wicked step mother and a tree.

she's the tree at this point!

Harriet is signed up for her first block of dog agility with Shadow starting next week.

Isaac is still enjoying his coop placement and now the fun begins with all the graduation stuff we have to attend including banquet, church service, a ball, grand march, the list goes on and on.....

We had a wonderful time celebrating Easter with the gang at Kevin and Dianne's.

The AV gang and band

The highlight of our month was our Christ central Church 2014 conference. Terry Virgo was the excellent main speaker as well as other seminar speakers. It was a time of real challenge and blessing and was a life changing event. David and Isaac spent nearly 5 days at the convention centre setting up, practicing, doing the actual conference and tearing down all the AV equipment. They had fun!