Where Have I Been?

I apologize  for not blogging much sooner,but these last couple of weeks have been really crazy here on the farm. I will update you on a brief recap of our last 2 weeks beginning with myself just not feeling well. I had a terrible mingraine and it lasted 3 days at the same time that my poor Mother had to be readmitted back into the hospital.
She had done well when she first came home (she had a good three weeks) then she went down hill her body was played out from doing nothing. Since she had been back in she has done much better. She was transferred to a bigger and much better hospital yesterday three hours away. She had a operation today for the blockages in her other leg and is recovering well. We are going to visit her tomorrow.
ok back tot he beginning
Hurricane Irene hit us with a lot of rain and wind. We did loose power for a day, but we were lucky enough to be able to run the generators. We had a lot of fallen trees and we did have a bit of fencing to do. The gardens flooded and are just beginning to come back along with my flower gardens. My fiber studio had three leeks but we worked very hard to clean up and patch the roof.

So we were very lucky. I hope all my blogging friends were also as lucky.
We have a new addition added to our family. We traveled 4 hours last Tuesday evening to go and get her, and had a long drive home in the dark. But it was sure worth every moment of it.Her name is Francesca (or Franie as I like to call her)

She is our 9week old Mini Dachshund. We have all wanted one for about 2 1/2 years now and finally our dream come true adopting this one.
She loves to travel and follows us everywhere we go.
Also besides having headaches, running to the hospital to visit my Mom,cleaning up after a hurricane, traveling to get a new puppy, we have been trying to get some hay made. (yes I know we are so late,but the weather has not worked with us this year.)
HB has been spending most of his time with me when he is off in the rain working on the new addition so we can finally move in as our little home has become TO little. We have made a lot of progress and I will post some pics of that on a later post.
I have got to do a little decorating down in the house as well, I painted this old milk crate to stand and become a table to show off my little lit houses.

As I was in such a creative mood I went a step further and used a couple of old wooden fish crates and made them into a book shelf to add a little more rustic country to the house.

 See that little red box on the floor, I got this at the Dollar store and it so pretty. (best part only $1)

Now in the middle of these crazy couple of weeks, we had some pretty terrible weather. One of the storms blew out our TV and HB came home one with a new TV
Our very first Flat screen.

To be honest I was a little upset spending a lot of money right at the moment, but now after watching some great movies with the family, I will admit I love it.

So there you have it, where I have been for the last little while. Tomorrow we are going to visit Mom and then the weeones are off to School next Tuesday I can not believe Summer is gone.

A Great Ending To Our Roadtrip

We had a wonderful trip away. We visited 2 lovely farmers markets, shopped at a great mall,Justin bought his very first laptop with his own money.

 went to loads of flea markets, and just had a great time spending time with my family.

Yes we all had a relaxing and fun time.

Here's to another great Family Vacation Road Trip.........

We Were All Dying

We have been busy here on the farm, working very hard at dying. Dying wool that is.
The weather the last few days has been great.
Here is a little of the colors we went with this year.

I have had a lot of phone calls in the past few weeks wondering if I was going to be selling any again this Fall. This is really what put me in the dying mood.

The citrus (yellow,orange) is my favorite for this year.

We are playing a new renovation in the studio soon. Big changes are in store, I can hardy wait.

Terrible Fire

Last evening our town was hit with a terrible thing.
A fire broke out in the stripmall where our local business are, among them my hairdresser, Greco pizza, capitan sub(2 of the 3 take outs that our little town has), a blind making business, and others were all destroyed by fire.
 Fire crews were called in from other areas to help with the blaze.

Family Road Trip Part 2

After lunch we went to the Village of Grand falls to see the sights. The falls and gorge are amazing.

They even have a Zip line now that runs over the falls. The line ups for this is crazy and I think the people are too. (Justin wanted to go and become crazy as well,but there was no way I was letting him)

Our next stop was for a mcflurry at Mc Donalds.

MMMMMMM! they were so yummy.

We then visited a beautiful huge pset store called  Frisky Pet Shop. http://www.friskypetshop.com/
This was the most cleanest neatest pet store we have ever been in. (for a small town it had more of a variety then the big cities.)
next we hopped in the jeep and headed towards the town of St. Leonard.

It is a small border town but has the cutest little shops.

After a some fun shopping and treats we headed back to the cottage for supper.
After supper we all went for a walk down through the streets of Plaster rock.

The weeones had a ball running around and playing in the park.

YEP! they really stand up to there name!

We ran over to the store to pick up some popcorn,

This deer was outside the store and the girls thought he was just the cutest thing ever.


We headed back to the cottage to relax in our PJ's and watch a movie.

RIO was a great movie for the whole family, before tucking in for good night's sleep.

Family Road Trip Part 1

Were all home safe and sound. We had a great trip and had beautiful weather as well.
We headed out early Friday morning, after loading up the jeep.

I forgot to take a pic before we headed out

But this is really kinda what we did look like though. 

We made one pee stop along the road, and also to let the weeones change into there cloths as they left in there jammies. about 2 hours in, as we took a tree hour remote road through to save on time. 

We stopped at Hubby's Aunt to say Hello, unfortunately we had to just leave a letter as there was no one home. We came home to a message on the machine wishing they new that we were passing through.

We arrived in Plaster Rock at noon and headed straight  to the grocery store

What a great little super market

We filled our carts with some fruits and veggies, and dairy. 

(Things that we did not want to travel with)

We checked in to our cottage that was located at the local Motel

We unpacked and unloaded everything and ate lunch that we had packed.

They girls made themselves right at home.(Of course) 

right down to the dresser.

Our cottage was very nice. Loads of room, 

Even a washer and dryer (which was great for coming home with a clean suitcase full of cloths)

The master bedroom was also very roomy with a great built in wall for our suitcase.

After taking a bit of a break we headed out to do some sightseeing in near by villages.

Countdown to Our family Road Trip

Only1 days left before we head out.

We  have begun to pack, cook and clean the jeep out. The Weeones are so excited . The girls have packed there travel bags and Justin has charged all his devices. The Weather is suppose to be great for the weekend. 

I want to wish you all a great weekend, and I am not to sure we will have internet so I will not be able to blog until we get back home.