End of season adventures

Memories are so wonderful,
Pictures are such an amazing treat.
I'll let these pictures express for themselves,

how we enjoyed being together.

These were taken in and around Riding Mountain

I'm in a dark valley, praying for hope.
The enemy is on the move.
Joy is a fading memory.
God where are you?

Please pull me out, help me up.
Cast all opposition away from me.
The days are hard the nights seem endless,
I'm surrounded.
Help me to be like David your mighty worrier, full of hope and faith.
I want to know you and be a woman after your own heart.

I feel paralyzed......

I almost forgot about our new Ducklings.


Pepper and Sunshine




And we are expecting bunnies any day now!

This summer has been full of Gods love,
The sunshine and rain.
The market, the vegetables.
The friends, The flowers.
The outdoors, the wildlife.
The work, the rest
Not to mention the honey and chickens!
All an amazing display of Gods never ending love for
His children.

My prayer is that we learn to live like the birds of the air..

Said the Robin to the Sparrow, I'd really like to know why these anxious human being rush about and worry so. Said the Sparrow to the Robin, friend I think that it must be, That they have no heavenly Father, which who cares for you and me....Phil Keaggy

How great is our God,
That He chose to send His son,
so that we can have life with Him!




The summer isn't even over.
I am so grateful,
We still get to take part in our favorite festival,
Have another day at the market and
Our family has the opportunity to have a student from Germany stay with us for five months!

We've been back for a while now but haven't had a chance to sit down.
The canoe trip was wonderful, just Kevin and I, a tent, a cooler of yummy food ie. brie, smoked white fish, tomatoes, a baguette, fruit, etc. some cards, fishing supplies, a hassock (a camping potty), some earring making supplies and it all fit into our wonderful canoe.
We are lacking in pictures because the extra camera batteries went missing, I still haven't found them.

Kevin taking the canoe off the van.

The scenery.


Me in the front taking it all in.


More recently........

I've started to sell bread in town, so every second day I spend 5 hours making bread.
The business has pulled me away from family and housework, I've consulted my Husband and he has encouraged me to keep at it.
So now God I lift it all up to you, you know my struggles and my fears, please hold me up in this time. I find myself lost most days between who I was and who God is refining me to be. This does actually feel like a desert in the mist of war sometimes, I know what the truth is but somehow it doesn't penetrate. I don't ask why, I just say help.

So God got me off the couch today, I feel so much better.
I thought that my first trimester was going to be a dark hole.
I wasn't able to get my house work, yard work, gardening... really the smallest task was a huge challenge.
God set me free and today I spent most of it outside. Lunch and supper were served outside and even a little sitting around the fire after all the work was over.
We planted, cleaned, my husband tilled the garden, started to build a shed and the children picked up loose bits that had made there way across the yard.
I feel alive again, and the sun was shining!
My husband and I even get to go on an early 10th anniversary outing.
we are going on a canoe trip for the weekend... you can't do that here in December, so we will celebrate early.
(I will also be 8 months with babe by then)

I cleaned out the front garden and finished the planting.

We put the chickens in the chicken tractor, one got away on us, but after some time running after it through the bushes, a friend came over and suggested a fishing net.....
My husband caught her in half a minute.
One was just to chicken to come out of her cozy pen.
They seemed to have enjoyed it. They didn't fight to go back into there pens either.

Great chicken day.


Kevin tilled the garden, hopefully now i can get some planting done now that its dry.(dryer!)

Kevin dug up the rhubarb, so that it could be moved to the big garden.
Some of the children all sat around a large bowl chopping up the cut down part of the rhubarb.

Kevin stopped at the greenhouse and picked up some Impatients.
I planted them under the Kitchen window so we could all see them.

Mabelle and Aoife sharing a bowl of peanuts relaxing on the swing.

My hard working husband, working on his shed.

For the final picture and caption, I'm adding this beautiful Iris, God is so good!
I will rejoice and be glad that He is King!