New Brunswick

After crossing over on the bridge we continued on our sightseeing journey and made our way to Moncton. Close to Moncton we saw this golf course near the road and just had to turn in and take a picture of the gorgeous trees. It was very pleasant out and the golf course looked quite inviting, but we didn't have our clubs along, nor did we have enough time that day. We continued on on our quest to find Magnetic Hill, which Mom and Dad had told us to go see. We found it eventually and were not that impressed, Kerry was not fooled, but I am a little more gullible and was almost taken in. We did however find some great scenery that was a better highlight for us.


From Moncton we headed north to Bouctouche where our MDS meeting was to take place. We were there early and so we had time for a nice long walk. We found a nice trail that took us around this body of water and it took us about an hour at a good pace to complete it but it felt good to get some exercise after a couple of days of mostly driving. Part of the trail was in the open, part of it was in the trees and part of it was city walking so we got to see a lot of different things along the way, and the afternoon temperature was just right for a good walk.






















Friday night, Saturday and part of Sunday morning were spent at Camp Wildwood for the Region V MDS retreat/board meeting. It was a nice setting for the meetings with a nice big room for business and meals. The bottom picture was taken during one of the meeting times. It was good to meet other people from across Canada who are also involved in MDS and form new friendships. There are a lot of great people in this organization. Sunday morning we had the privelege of attending morning worship at Petticodiac Mennonite Church in Petticodiac, NB., and then sharing in a fellowship lunch with them.














Afterwards, Kerry and I continued on with our sightseeing, going to Hopewell Rocks and ending up back at Truro for the night. On Monday morning we headed out to the Anapolis Valley, stopping at the Mennonite community of Northfield and visiting some folks there that we had met at the meeting. From there we continued on to Berwick and stopped to visit some folks who used to live in our community. We were able to go out to an apple orchard and see first hand how the apples get picked and got to sample the fruit. We would have liked to stay longer and explore more of the valley, but had to get back to Halifax for our flight home in the afternoon. It was a whirlwind tour but we can honestly say that we had a good time and would like to go back some day, and see the things that we couldn't get to this time.

Prince Edward Island

We spent the first night at Truro,NS after doing some touring around. The next morning we enjoyed some more sights as we made our way over to where we wanted to take the ferry over to PEI. We had an enjoyable time and were in no rush and were quite surprized to be ushered right on to the ferry when we arrived. We parked and went up on deck and the next thing we knew we were leaving the dock. After finding and checking a schedule we realized that we had just made it in time, and had we missed this ferry, we would have had to wait 3 hours for the next one. Needless to say, we felt very fortunate. After an uneventful 75 minute crossing, our first sight of the island was this lighthouse.



It was sunny but windy, with a cool bite to the wind and so we stopped at the ocean but didn't walk, we just looked, nor did we take off our socks and shoes to test the water.














We toured around on the island and enjoyed the scenery and the fall colors. We made our way over to Cavendish and found the Anne of Green Gables homestead, but due to time constraints, we didn't go in. We did find a nice park not far away and took time to walk and enjoy the peaceful warm afternoon. Much more pleasant that out by the ocean. The tree I am standing under is just one of many maples like it that we saw and enjoyed. Many of them were bright orange or even red





















We continued our tour and we really enjoyed seeing the brown soil in the fields and how the fields would gently slope down to the water's edge, and be bordered by colorful trees, the winding roads and the small towns along the way. We made our way to Summerside where we found a place for the night and the next day it was time to leave. This time we made our way over to Confederation Bridge and ended our enjoyable stay on the island by driving the 9 mile bridge and finding ourselves in New Brunswick at the other end.

Quick Trip to the Maritimes

Two weeks ago we made a quick trip to the Maritime provinces. We went to attend an MDS meeting in New Brunswick and we decided to take a couple of extra days and do some exploring. We had never been to the east coast of Canada so we were excited to see what it was like. We really enjoyed out brief time there. We flew in to Halifax on Wednesday and flew home again on Monday, and the weekend was mostly taken up with meetings so we only had a couple of days to see as much as we could. We did a lot of driving and explored the countryside. We are more sightseers than tourists and so the fact that a lot of the tourist attractions were already closed for the season didn't bother us much. These pictures are from our travels in Nova Scotia and we really enjoyed the colors of the season. The leaf change was late and so we were able to feast our eyes on the reds and oranges and golds, colors like we don't get to see in Manitoba. We toured mostly in northern Nova Scotia, saw the Hopewell rocks, and area, got to see a bit of the Anapolis Valley on Monday, and also saw the Tidal Bore near Truro.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Give Thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever! Ps. 136:1


I am a day late but it is still a great time to give thanks and remember all the blessings that we have recieved in the past year. Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend and got to spend time with family and friends. We had a family filled weekend and it was good. Spending time with our kids and grandchildren is always a treat and then good times with the extended families made for a memorable weekend.




I love the colors of fall and so I have decided to celebrate fall and Thanksgiving with some decorating, indoors and out. I have fun doing it and I hope others who see them enjoy them as well and see some of the fun things and great colors of fall. I thought I would post pictures for all of you to enjoy as well!






HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Grand-daughters

I cant post and not include pictures of the girls who give us such joy and make being grandparents so much fun. Jayda is four months now and is really thriving and getting more active, though she is still quite content most of the time. Yesterday as we were eating supper she was having a good time in her jolly jumper and as you can see, she has a wonderful smile.







Jayda has learned to roll over and she did start out on her back before I took this picture but she is okay with some tummy time. Looks like she planned this pose.










And Hailey keeps growing and learning more and more and she and I have good times together. We enjoy our "play dates" and have some very interesting conversations at times. On this picture she is waiting for lunch to be brought to the table. She gets to sit in her booster seat now instead of in the highchair and she enjoys being at the table with the rest of us.

Grand Finale Continued

Kerry was kept very busy trucking this afternoon as the four combines kept filling the trucks and grain cart almost as soon as he could get it back to the field. Every inch of storage is full and so we had to borrow trucks to tide us over untill we can haul some beans to the elevator and free up some of our bins. So no, the semi you see in the last picture is not ours. It feels good to have the crop all in and we might feel like celebrating but there is still more work to be done. No sooner were the combines gone than Erik got the big tractor and the deep tiller and headed out to get to cultivating. We have done scraper work and tilled most of the fields, but the soybean land was still waiting, and then comes anhydrous work. A farmer's work is never done! At least not until freeze up!

Grand Finale

It's done! Our 2007 harvest is complete, and it is good! The year was not without it's challenges again . There were times of too much rain and times when it was too dry. There were debates about when and what to spray, was the crop good enough to warrant the extra cost? And now that it is all in we are blessed. The yields were good for most of the crops and ALL the bins are FULL! The harvest went well and we are praising God for blessing us this richly.


Today was a busy day with four combines on our last soybean field. The first picture shows the west side of the field where our Gleaners were eating up the swaths that Kerry laid this morning. The second picture shows the two rented John Deeres that took off the rest of the field with their straight cut headers. The last picture shows three of the four combines .(my camera isn't big enough to capture all four at one time)