January 2021

 

Well here we are - it is January 3rd, 2021 as I write this blog.

Wishes that everyone had a great Christmas and Holiday within their respective bubbles and all the best for a wonderful Happy, Healthy New Year!

Here at the Farm we enjoyed a great time (albeit a Green Christmas!) with our small bubble of family. Good food always seems to be front and centre and it never goes unnoticed how blessed we are. 

The grandkids were able to strap on the skates 2 days after Christmas for a game of shiny on the low flooded spot in the front field. It felt good to them to play some hockey and it felt great to watch!

As always the "watching" of the World Junior Hockey Tournament over the holidays plays a big roll in this family as well. With such little sports going on these days and no Belleville Senator games to attend or grandkids games to see it has felt a bit like "normal" to be able to view the tournament on TV.

GO CANADA GO!

Yesterday (January 2nd) the kids/grandkids were able to get a bit of tobogganing / sledding / GTing / and downhill skiing in on our big hill out back, curtesy of a 4 inch snowfall the night before!

Also in the wee hours of January 2nd ( at 2 a.m. ) we welcomed baby Belgian "Archie."

He arrived without too much fan fare (which is always good) and he and his mom Gracie are doing well. Pictures below.

                          

Mom Gracie and newborn "Archie"

                                            

                                                                                     

Archie stretching his long legs

Breakfast time!

We now await the arrival later this month of Reign's wee one and our other mare Olympia is due around the end of April.


The weeks leading up to Christmas saw a bit of baking being done (not as much as past years as us older folks really don't  need it  - we just want it 😉).
I have pretty well handed the baking gauntlet over to our daughter as she has become an extremely good cook / baker. I like to take some credit for that but the grandma's and great grandma's that come before her had fabulous cooking skills so she comes by them honestly.

Christmas morning we had her AMAZING cinnamon buns with  morning beverages.

Between Christmas and New Years I tried my hand at bread and bun making again. Both turned out pretty good and I even tried an artesian bread in the cast iron skillet.

Top one is a plain loaf and a cinnamon loaf and the lower one is the artisan!


As we figure our way through the months ahead we send our continued thoughts out to those on the front lines and to all essential workers. Again our thoughts and prayers are with one and all who have been affected by this pandemic.


Don't generally make New Years Resolutions but will work on in 2021, kindness and remembering that we all perceive what happens around us differently so therefore show more tolerance to one another - then maybe find the peace we all seek inside and out.



HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS to ALL!

Until next time,

Jeanne and Kim