New Tattoo

After sitting in the artist's chair at Perfect Image Studio in London for 2 1/2 hours, I got a sweet new tattoo. I love it!


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Wonderful World of Wonderland

We spent the day on Wednesday at Canada's Wonderland. We waited 45 minutes in line to ride the Behemoth, ohh what a ride!


Enjoyed the White Water Canyon Ride - ended up soaked!


Kyle riding 'first class' on the stand up roller coaster.


Darcy & Krystle also decided to ride 'first class'.


Kyle & Darcy taking a turn on the Dropzone.


It was a wonderful time together, I ended up losing my voice from all the screaming from riding the roller coasters. but ohh I had fun!

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My Garden

There's nothing quite like fresh produce and even better when you grow it yourself. Again this year Wayne & I planted a garden which has a nice variety, and we've finally been able to start eating those fresh veggies. mmhm, mhmm, good


Banana Peppers

Strawberry Plants

Butternut Squash

Corn

This video sure puts having a garden of your own into perspective.

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Applesauce

Today my mom & I washed, cut-up, cooked, and strained about 5.5 bushels of Harvest Apples and turned them into some yummy applesauce.
Looking at all those bushels of apples, the task ahead of us looked quite daunting. I'm so thankful that my mom was able to come and help me. It made it alot easier making applesauce with someone or I would probably still be at it. Plus it gave us a great opportunity to spend some time together catching up.

whew! what a day

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Farmer's Wife

As a child we would visit my Schwartzentruber grandparents on their farm and I remember going into their dairy barn with my nose plugged closed so I would not have to smell that fresh "county" air. How ironic is it that I married a dairy farmer. You'll recall we lost our dairy barn in 1998 (see post 'Remembering ~ July 17, 2009) and decided that even though we couldn't milk cows we would continue on the farm and become a cash cropper. For those who are unfamiliar with 'farm-talk' that means we grow a variety of crops (corn, soy beans, wheat etc.) for cash.

Yesterday we've begun to take the wheat off

and for some of it, it's being stored in our grain bin.


Farmer in the Dell
The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell
Hi-ho the dairy-o, the farmer in the dell.
The farmer takes a wife, the farmer takes a wife
Hi-ho the dairy-o, the farmer takes a wife.

One of the things I've learned during both planting and harvesting is that it's very important to stay out of the farmer's way during this time and just let him do his thing. It used to be a stressful time for me when the kids were younger, because Daddy was very busy and parenting our kids would become mostly my responsibilty. Now though it's much easier to cope with the long work days and the stress he faces relying on the weather for getting the crops off.

In Ecclesiastes 3:1 it reminds me There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: knowing this helps me to put the busyness into perpective and to know that this is not forever. I wonder..... shouldn't there be a support group for us. ^.^

Hello my name is Anita and I am a farmer's wife.

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Doggie in the Window

How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
The one with the waggley tail
How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
I do hope that doggie's for sale
disclaimer: she's not for sale.

At the cottage in Chelsey Lake, the window sills were quite deep, deep enough that Sasha could sit and watch out the window. When we would play tennis we would have to leave her in the house and only seconds later she would be at 'her perch' watching us. It was too precious not to take a photo of her.

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Dinner time dilemma

Dinner time at our house can sometimes be an adventure. Tonight as we sat around the dinner table, Kyle decided to dare his little brother Darcy to try something crazy. I'm talking crazy. The boys (aged 20 & 19) decided to snort Peppercorn Ranch salad dressing. Yes, that's right, up their noses, crazy huh! Darcy goes first and as I'm gagging, up his nose it goes. Not 5 seconds later he is moaning from the pain of the peppercorns. {smirk} Does this stop Kyle? oh no, not Kyle. He too takes his turn and yes he too starts to moan after a few seconds. {double smirk}

Of course we laugh and I tell the boys that the next time they were going to do something like this they need to let me videotape it, I spoke to soon because about 1 minute later they decide that they're not finished snorting things up their nose and they dared each other to snort the sugar from the bottom of the candy dish up their nose. I've got the video to prove it.

Viewer Discretion is Advised.

Life with these boys is never boring, crazy, but never boring.

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