The weather, as we Canadian's always love to talk about has gone from greater than +20ºC to greater than -20ºC and has now settled at the moment at a place in between. We have had our first winter storm and our first day of "Indian Summer".
I was fortunate enough to clinic again with Josh Nichol. I had 3 wonderful days in his energy. I always leave the clinics with him feeling renewed and grateful.
DH has replaced the very rotted and not so wind proof front door and octagon bathroom window.
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After
My garden was more than prolific when it came to butternut squash and jalapeño peppers. Both have been put to good use in my kitchen and shared with family and friends. Lots of butternut squash and bacon soup.
Home made jalapeño poppers.
We enjoyed the company of many friends at Bennville Equestrian at the end of season barn supper. The table was set in the aisle of the barn and Lynda and Laurie did a superb job decorating while everyone brought something for the potluck turkey dinner.
The new bale feeders have been put into service. They work great holding a full small square in the slow feed hay bags.
Dad spent a day on a weekend grading the back entrance to the barn. This area sometimes when we had wet weather then a deep freeze it would pool at the bottom of the door and freeze the door. Not going to be a problem this winter!
Dad also helped by digging a french well at the water troughs so that they will not create a muddy mess in spring and and ice rink in winter.
I enjoyed a formal evening at The Royal Horse show with 3 of my friends. Thank you Dianne for the evening out as your guest. Seeing the inside of the private lounge and the box seats were a wonderful treat!
I was also lucky enough to be party of my childhood friend Shannyn's surprise 40th birthday. It's hard to believe that Theresa, Shannyn and I have been friends for so long with horses being our initial glue.
This fall has been somewhat slow with respect to the number of km's I have logged on my shoes but I did get out a few days on the river trail and it was stunning.
Theresa and I have been able to finish 2 races since my last post. We did a 10K trail run which we both had PB race times. Both of us finishing in under 50 minutes. I ended up winning my age group!
We also did the Santa 5K in Hamilton...where all the runners have to race in a santa suit! It was +13ºC so we were sweating buckets. We both finished in the top 10% of our age group. Exact placings aren't posted yet on the internet.
We had a major wind storm a week ago which resulted in some damage at the farm. We had one of our new 30' x 12' shelters flip 180º onto its roof. It was a wicked night and next day. Luckily there were no horses in the field where the shelter was turned over. We had some shingles off of our newer house roof as well.
We righted the shelter on the weekend with all 3 tractors and one failed attempt. Thankfully the building rolled back onto its base with very little to basically no damage! Thankfully DH is as anal as he is regarding building construction…or we may have had a pile of kindling! Who needs riggers when DH and Dad are around.
Mom and I spent some time over the weekend decorating for Christmas. The urns, pots and fence are all now decorated with beautiful greenery. The Christmas lights are all the way up the driveway and across the fence in the front of the house. Dec 1st is always light up night at the farm! Thank you Mom…as always the farm looks beautiful because of you and it's such a happy inviting entrance.
And to end this post a couple pictures of my crazy kid and her mom!
