Victoria Day Weekend

Life on the farm has brought lots of changes this past several weeks.   We have been busying ourselves putting fencing up, levelling the lawns, turning over the flower beds and creating new flower beds, weed whacking weeds, replacing the back door, splitting and stacking wood, hosting ladies night, taking Molly to the vet to be spayed and enjoying a ride with Heather.

Our darling Molly was spayed this past week.   She was pretty wiped out the first day but even one day later she had bounced right back.   The hard part is that for 7 days she is not to run, jump, play fight or do anything that might tear her stitches.   Needless to say…that has been next to impossible!!  She had to meet all the ladies at ladies night this week and then Dora came over and then BIll and Carol paid us a visit, so there was just far too many people to say hello to, to be calm and sleep!  Luckily her vet, Dr Borland from the Cayuga Vet Service in our local town did a fantastic job.   Her incision is so tight and clean it, it's a clear demonstration of her skill as a surgeon and love of her job taking care of our precious pets.

Here she is when we first brought her home.   She never left her bed.

 Here she is the next day keeping cool with her shaved belly on the barn breezeway.

This her by Monday...a bit more life in there!

 Here we are splitting and stacking fire wood for seasoning.   This wood will be ready to go for the 2014 winter season.   8 cord stacked so far and way more still on the ground.  

My mom Chill-laxing in the shade with Dora.

 DH fixed the back door.   We had quite the surprise at the first snow storm when we had a small snow drift in the mudroom!  At that point it was too cold to change the door...all fixed up now and looking great.  We opted for a venting window over the original 9 pane design.  Opening windows are a big plus in an old house with now shades!

Start

Finished!

My absolutely favourite labour job...weed whacking!

AND the best part of the long weekend was riding!   Here is a pic of Heather on Sieger and Izzy and I heading to the bush.