APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS
AS THE SAYING GOES
The daffodils above graced my window sill back in late February helping me to get through to Spring! It won't be long now until they and tulips are popping out of the ground to meet the warming sun. It has seemed like an unusually long winter to us here at the farm with all the ice and COLD temperatures. Kim has been lamenting the low temps for the last month sure that every other year it was warm by now. While I just checked an entry from our friends that moved to Nova Scotia a couple of years ago and they had posted a picture from April 21st 2011 back here in Ontario and guess what...lots of snow on the ground....so we tell Kim to be patient!
Easter has come and gone and we hope everyone had a nice long weekend and celebrations. Good Friday saw 2 wee bull calves born and we await 7 more in the weeks to come. Our mare Olympia is still waiting to deliver her foal.
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| Johnny & June |
Some time in May we also have 2 new arrivals coming to the farm. Johnny & June - a pair of Norwegian Fjord horses. They are smaller in height than a Belgian draft horse, more the height of a riding horse but they are heavy and thick like a draft animal. They also have a beautiful black and white stripped tail and mane. Kim is hoping to plow with them and we look forward to them joining us here on the farm.
Our new directors chairs have arrived. They are a nice light aluminum that is easy to take in and out of the horse trailer at the plowing matches. We got them from Triple P Promotions out of Sunderland and they were wonderful to deal with if your looking for something like this.
They are a great chair for us older folks to sit on as when people come by to chat you are at their height so you are not straining your neck looking up or feeling you should stand on tired legs. We always take extra along to share for others to sit and rest their legs as well.
My Dad was down at Easter and gave my friend and I some Band saw lessons. Once a weekly carver we have sort of got away from it and would like to begin again so we needed to know how to run the band saw so we could cut out rough shapes to then carve.
Seen here I am just practicing on an old piece of wood to get the feel of the saw. Once I feel comfortable we can move on to cutting all sorts of shapes to carve things like the ones pictured here.
These Angels are so much fun to do and you can paint them in colours that match folks decor.
We started way back about 15 years ago with the Quinte Wood Carvers and did a lot of Santa carvings under the tutelage of a very gifted carver Faron Young.
A lot of the folks in the club do real life carvings of birds etc.. but I tend to like the folk art pieces as they are more forgiving when you only pick up your tools periodically. LOLThe Easter bunny has been carved, painted and them aged with an Antiquing Gel. He was finally ready to be center stage of the Easter table after many years of sitting in a cupboard unfinished!
I will leave you with a short video below of my canine walking buddy enjoying a warm spring day!
Until next time,
Until next time,
Jeanne & Kim
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