The summer is drawing to an end, it's cooled down to mid to late 20's and most of the bugs have gone. It's been a complete blurr and we're now catching up on everyday tasks like washing and mowing the grass and after a month of overeating it's time to stock up on salad stuff!
David's parents arrived 3 hours after our power and water came back on after hurricane Arthur, this was good timing except for my poor vacuum cleaner which overheated!
We had a lovely 2 week visit with David's parents, as well as fixing my kitchen cupboard door, putting up a washing line, putting in 2 windows and a door we did manage some trips out. This is on the ferry across to Campobello.
Head Harbor lighthouse on Campobello.
Harriet learning to water ski on Yoho
We had a Woollin family reunion, we were very kindly loaned the 2 cottages at Yoho which was the base for the holiday, we also went to PEI for the holiday weekend.
All 11 grandchildren
the whole lot!
As usual whenever there is grass either a football or cricket bat appears.
The view from the house we stayed in on PEI, that's the confederation bridge on the horizon
We spent a day in Charlottetown which had erected these to celebrate 150 years of the confederation
Grandma and Granddad with their grand kids
trying to get them lined up in age order!
It was Harriet's 4H achievement show this weekend, she did dog obedience with Max and he actually came joint 2nd!
July 31st we celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary, to celebrate we went with my siblings and their wives/husbands to Montanas for all you can eat ribs. On Aug 4th we celebrated 4 years of being in Canada by eating DQ ice cream cake.
We are down to 14 pigs, numerous chickens, 5 turkeys, 9 ducks, 1 cow, 4 rabbits and 2 crazy dogs. The aim is to downsize a little before winter sets in. This will also give us time to concentrate on the house renovations. A raccoon decided to help us with this by snacking on our chickens each night. We set a trap for him and caught a skunk! A couple of days later we caught him. We had a young bear in the field behind our house for a couple of days but he seems to have moved on now.
