Today was the "DAY"........Aujourd'hui etait le "Jour"

SE wind...snow on the ground.......rain expect later this afternoon.............time to burn.

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Vent du SE.....neige au sol...........pluie en perspective en fin de journee.......temps pour le feu.

Xmas in the air...Noel est dans les airs

We went to see some Xmas decorations in a town near ours. This is the results: they have collected things for years to get to that point. It covers about an acre, the people are present till nine at night with their costumes. It was really something to see. Enjoy the pictures.

Dans le village voisin, des residents ont decore leur parterre d'un acre avec toutes sortes de decorations du temps des fetes. C'est vraiment une visite a faire. On peut marcher dans les allees prevues pour cette circonstance.

Ils sont presents et en costume jusqu'a 9 heures le soir.

December 3rd, 2009

I did not post a lot since October because we were very busy with the location for the Community Center so below you will find the link to the other blog.

Je n'ai pas ecrit dans le blog depuis Octobre car nous etions occupes avec le site du Centre Communautaire. Ci dessous vous trouverez le lien pour l'autre blog:

www.upwithethel.blogspot.com

Les commentaires sont apprecies. Merci.....Comments are appreciate Thank you

Happy Birthday Jennifer!!!

Many happy returns of the day.

Chili Feed

We had a nice advertisement at the bank in New Cambria. The weather was perfect to say the least: blue sky, no clouds, no wind.

We had a nice turn-out. We served 54 meals. The bake sale went fine and we had very good donations.

We had country music played during the meal by some generous musicians from Ethel and the surrounding areas.

Overall, we are very pleased for our first meal in Ethel.

Wednesday after meeting

Well, we had another 11 people present which means we had a total of 16 different persons assisting to any of them.
We are ready for our Chili Feed on October 17th. We're hoping 100+ persons.
The Ethel Christian Church gave as the basement to hold the Lunch at no cost: very nice of them.
We had our first unsolicited donation today also. Very good day over all.
We need your prayers though....thank you

Happy Birthday Manon!!!.....Bonne fete Manon!!

Well, well well....

Tanner

Alex

The Mail Box

Masin

We had an excellent trip to Michigan. The weather was beautiful, our visits went great. We found a lot of treasures in garage sales and thrift stores.

Nice to see some friends also while in Grand Heaven.

It was a very nice feeling to see the grand kids. Alex & Tanner are so bright, I better start learning my geography if I want to keep up with both of them. Masin is a speedy Gonzales. here he is, here he is gone.

It was also nice to come back home to our "menagerie". New babies rabbits (12), new baby ducks (5) now all gone. Lots and lots of tomatoes, green peppers and finally bird's gourds.

We did some apple sauce , apple jelly, wild sand plum jelly.

We had a couple a meetings regarding our goal to open a Community Center & Grocery Store. The Amish settlement are enthusiastic about it and can't wait to see it happening.

This coming Wednesday, we have another meeting but this time at the City Hall, we've out grow our house.

2 offers of 2 different houses in great despair of renovations, 4 lots to build a pole barn.................but no founds yet to proceed .

Saturday afternoon we were invited to a Blue Grass jamboree....great time 11 musicians (old timers) with guitars, violins....

And best of all, Nick had accepted to take square dancing classes....Youppie...this coming Thursday night.

As you see, life goes on and we work harder than when we were working ( lol)

Bye for Now and Happy Birthday to Gena!!!

Happy Birthday Veronique!!....Bonne Fete Vero!!

Je te souhaite une belle journee, que tous tes voeux secrets se realisent.
Amour, sante prosperite sont nos voeux pour toi
de nous deux
Maman et Nick

Caning is almost over...Les conserves sont presque terminees

We have been busy caning green beans, tomatoes, dills pickles,carrots, spaghetti sauce, chili, pears, peaches, rasberry and blackberry jelly, pear jelly, english plum jelly, wild sand plum jelly and jam....etc... Apples will be next.

This morning as I was picking tomatoes the sun came out and it was a beautiful scene. I did take a picture but it doesn't gave credit to the real sunrise. You will see some tomatoes bigger than my hand, with some regular ones.....quite amazing we think.

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Nous etions occupes a faire des conserves de haricots verts, tomate, cornichons, carottes, sauce a spaghetti, chili, poires, peches, gelle de framboises et mures, de poires, de prune et aussi de la confiture....Les pommes sont les suivantes..

Ce matin comme je ramassais des tomates le soleil s'est leve et cela etait une scene magnifique. J'ai pris des photos mais cela ne rend pas justice au lever de soleil. Vous verrez des tomates plus grosses que ma main et avec une reguliere....pas mal surprenant .

Happy Birthday Jim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy birthday Nathalie!!!!.................Bonne fete Nathalie!!!!!!!!!

Amuse toi bien, passe une belle journee

Peaches & Nectarines

Remember the Nick's peach tree with 5 peaches on?? Well they are gone Monday.....disappeared ......................Seeds were on the ground.

Tuesday morning, the nectarine tree was empty I mean cleaned up.......................and there was 107 nectarine seeds around the tree on the ground....................wow!!! they were almost ready..........so Tuesday night we installed 2 traps & Nick camped out for awhile , saw a raccoon going back to the creek and something else coming from the pasture.....but it was dark & went back to bed.

What a surprise when I went feed the animals in the morning to see a mother opossum sitting quietly by the tree. She had a leg in a trap & the tail in the other. She had 8 babies in her pouch. She was ready to climb in the other peach tree & have a blast. Bummer for her.

Now we are set waiting for the coon or Mr Possum who knows, hopefully we will keep our 7 peaches left & the apples.........................to be continued.

Happy Birthday Steven!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Ash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Outside

These are the Bird'shouse gourd flowers


Beautiful Rose of Sharon all the way around the fence on the west side of the house.

Like a postcard.....Right after the harvest.

Visite du Quebec

Christian Lucie & Nadine

Brenda & Lucie
Brenda

My brother Christian ; his wife Lucie came for a visit. We had a great time and a nice weather. It was a + for them who had rain almost all July. Nick learned to play "Belote" a french game of card and he did very good at it. Our neighbor Brenda came to see the "Canuks" ; had to have a picture taken with the Quebec license.

The new inside

Kitchen

Dining room

Livingroom

Master Bedroom

Shower

Guest Bedroom

We just had guest for lunch and now I am taking time to send some new pictures of the inside of the home.

The house is "SOLD".....Alleluia.....La maison est "VENDUE"

After 5 weeks of negociations, lies ,threats, we are finally done with Omaha...YES!!!!!
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Apres 5 semaines de negociations, mensonges, menaces, nous avons termine avec Omaha

The harvest.....la recolte

Eight ball , squash, white onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, pickles, green beans, cauliflower, brown eggs, duck eggs.

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Happy Birthday to Amy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, our first hatch.........Finalement notre premiere ne

On 110 eggs, the first baby guinea is finally hatched, hopefully tomorrow we bring some more to this world.

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Sur 110 oeufs, le premier bebe pintade est arrive, avec de la chance demain nous devrions en avoir d'autres

Insect bites???? Piqures d'insectes???

This week we had a nice visit from Omaha, my good friend Julie...it was nice to see her although her stay was very short. Like Nick says we have our private hairdresser coming to our house to clean cut us....Thank you again Julie.

Nick has strange bites on his feet and back , it did not look good and he finally gave in and went to Columbia VA Hospital where we were told it was insect bites. 10 days of antibiotics and all should get back to normal.

Right now we are trying to finish installing all kitchen cabinets so we can move the furniture back from Omaha on monday........YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait.....7 months is a loooong time with just a table 2 chairs and an air mattress.

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Cette semaine nous avons eu de la belle visite, ma copine Julie....c'etait agreable de la revoir meme si son sejour a ete tres court. Comme dit Nik nous avons notre propre coiffeur a domicile pour nous rafraichir les oreilles..Merci encore Julie.

Nick avait des etranges piqures sur les pieds et dans le dos. Apres un long combat avec lui , il a accepte d'aller a l'hopital des Veterans a Columbia ou on nous a dit que cela etait des piqures d'insecte......hahaha!!! 10 jours d'antibiotiques et tout devrait rentrer dans l'ordre.

Presentement nous essayons de terminer l'installation des armoires de cuisine pour pouvoir amener notre menage de Omaha Lundi..............OUI Madame!!!!!!! J'ai tellement hate......7 mois c'est loooong avec juste une table, 2 chaises et un matelas souffle.

We made a little progress.......Nous avons progresse

Ryan came down to helps us move from Omaha. Masin is here also with another broken arm.

Ryan est venu nous aider a demenager de Omaha. Masin est la aussi avec un autre bras casse.

Saturday June 20th.......Samedi 20 juin

We finished all the cabinets painting. The upper are on the wall and all the others are ready to go to their final destination...lol.

We will not have any baby goose: all they eggs were rotten.......bummer....

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Nous avons termine de peindre toutes les armoires, celles du haut sont installees et les autres n'attendent que leur destination finale...lol

Nous n'aurons pas de petites oies: les oeufs ont pourris........desastre.