New Brunswick Day

Wanting to wish you all a Happy New Brunswick day!
Our Province is small but it has a whole lot to offer. Have a great long weekend Everyone.

Growing Kitties

My the last month has flow by. Bindi Sue kittens have grown and are now running around. The girls are having so much fun playing with them.

Jayne has fun with all of them.

Jill's Princess Peony is so cute

We are expecting a nice weekend for weather, so I am hoping to get some yard work done. Have a great weekend everyone!

A Fishing We Will Go

The sun is out finally after a few days of cloud and rain showers. We are expecting a high of 25 today with 29 with the humidity.
I filled the line with laundry this morning as I have had so much catching up to do with it,as the weather was not in our favor.
Monday evening Hb and Justin went fishing trout. Fishing is Justin's favorite thing to do. From the time he was very little he always loved to fish. He can spend hours at it. So when Justin gets the chance he's gone. Yesterday for Dinner he decided he was going to cook up his fish. He filled them with butter and onions,salt and pepper and wrapped them in foil. Took them out to the BarBQue and cooked them up. He enjoyed them!

Here are the trout he cooked for lunch.
He froze the rest in bags with water.
Last evening Justin was asked once again to go fishing. This time to fish off the beach with a  next door neighbour, in town for mackerel. Of course he was ready in a flash and was off.
They go back around 11 and Justin caught around 30.

I will do these up today for winter and keep a few out to cook up.
I guess they are suppose to go back this morning around 10 again, as they go with the tides. If all else fails we will eat fish all winter.

HB is off for tomorrow and thus making it a long weekend for him. Monday is our Provincial holiday but HB will be back then. We were suppose to go away on vacation this weekend but my Mom needs me to take her to a appointment tomorrow and Justin was asked to work for the  for the neighbour weekend tearing down a deck. (Justin is saving his money for a Skidoo and is working three different summer jobs to get the money for it) Maybe he should be selling fish?  So our Summer Vacation will have till wait for a couple more weekends till HB is off again.
We are hoping to get a good chunk of hay made this weekend.
Well my hummingbird food is boiling on the stove, so I must go for now. Take care and I wish you all a great day!

Herbs

Well we all worked hard at getting the land back to normal after our terrible Saturday. The huge clean up that had to be done is almost finished now. Thank goodness. It is amazing how fast rain and wind can take down trees.
It has been a busy week besides cleaning up the property. Monday I had 2 appointments, one for myself and one for my Mom. So that took care of that day. HB and Justin went evening fishing and caught some nice looking trout. Tuesday morning I had a foot appointment for my feet,as I have terrible cracked feet and watch them very closely as thus is how mo Mother started in this whole mess.
In the afternoon I had to go into town again for a eye appointment. We picked up a very special treat for supper last night as I was so much longer then I had thought to be and did not take anything out for supper. I bought a pizza. It was very good and sometimes change is good. (When you have to wait 3 1/2 hours in a Doctor's office)
Anyhow we had a lovely supper and headed out to get some more work done. HB worked on the other side of the new part as we have not been getting to much done over there lately with hay making under way.
Justin cut the lawn and I weeded the herb beds.
The herb beds are doing very well this year. I have some many different types growing now, basils, to chives, to coleanders,to parsley, to lavender, just to name a few.

I have moved my herb garden this year next to my lettuces and spinach.

We use our herbs daily here fresh in meals, salads. drinks,and even to scent things, and treats for the cats. We also dry many for later use. We dry our herbs by hanging them from the ceiling in the greenhouse.
I have recently found a neat idea for hanging herbs from a cloths hanger, and thought it to be a pretty cool idea as well.

I even screen some herbs as well like summer savory.

Herbs are so much fun to grow. We grow just a couple year round in the kitchen in clay pots, but mostly if it is not in season then they are used dried.

Do you grow Herbs? If so I would love to find out what you do with them as we are always on the net looking for new ideas to do with them. I can't wait to hear all your ideas.

High Unexpected Winds

Supper time tonight, it seemed as we were going to get rain, so we decided to hurry and BarBque up our supper of Hamburgers and hot dogs.
Then out of the blue a strong wind began and within a minute it turned to 100 km winds. We ran to close buildings, grap our awning on our trailer that broke and took off over the trailer. It was totally terrible. Trees were falling all around us. The whole storm lasted about 1/2 hour, and the rain has just stopped.

HB is trying to fix the awning, and we are still trying to pick up things that blew in the yard.

Trees fell on buildings.

 Trees fell on fences.

All we could here and see were trees cracking
A large branch fell on my Beetle,but lucky did not do any damage.

We lost the chicken coop door. The wind tore it right off the hinges.

I found my cloths line on the ground broke from a tree as well.

Even my poor flowers were tacked by the strong winds and rain.
The next few days will be busy picking up and cutting up and trying to put our home back together. Thankfully we were all alright.

End of the week already

This has been another busy week.
Yesterday I had taken my Mom and Dad to see a diabetic Doctor for my Mom in Moncton which is about 2 hours away. We had a good fast trip and we an into rain about a hour from home.Then it rained all night. (we much needed it) the gardens are so dry.
The only problem with all this rain showers we are getting is that  it is bringing back the humidity with it. Another bad one for today. High humidity.
Well it's off to get some long awaited cleaning to be done. Take care and have a great weekend.

Aprons

Do you own a apron? Do you wear it? or does it sit in the closet collecting dust, or do you just use it at Christmas.
I love Aprons, I have so many. I always use them on a daily bases. Some more then others. (well one most of all) the one that's been washed a million times and is a lot smaller then it use to be. The one that has baked up so many storms for my family.
I also have one for Christmas,and my grandmother's as well. I often will think back yo my child hood with my Grandmother and remember here wearing it.
I also have collected vintage ones that I have picked up at second hand shops over the years and yard sales. (these are my favorites because I often wonder who wore these and what did they use them for) My girls do the same they have their favorites and have created beautiful ones throughout the years.


A friend sent me this poem the other day about Grandma's Apron and I read it to my girls. It is all so true.

Grandma's Apron

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears…

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.

After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men-folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

t will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

REMEMBER:

Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I never caught anything from an apron…But Love. (Author Unknown)


THIS IS SO TRUE!!!!!


Also i found this one to.

'Grandma's Apron'

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My Grandma always wore an apron something we don't see much anymore. She would put it on over her dress the first thing when she got up in morn. She would carry eggs from the hen house cupped in her apron pulled up tight. She would also carry apples in it too then washed her hands and on her apron did wipe. Her apron hangs in my closet now as a reminder of those days. And sometimes slip it on over my clothes and pretend I'm my Grandma for that day. I go to the same old hen house gather eggs for my apple pies. I wash my hands and wipe them too and with Grandmas' apron, swat a pesky horse fly. Nothing I have seen of yet, will replace those aprons worn they were from those days of long ago in the day when my Grandma was born. HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE.