Yikes.....

We have been going non-stop, between soccer, cycling and unusual amount of events with friends and company, we have been busy.

We have added two new kittens to the family, shadow and witch. There names really seem to fix them, shadow is a little shy and hangs back alittle more where as witch is always jumping 4 paws first into any kind of trouble.






Autumn on the other hand has just finished a great year of kids of mud, she has found so much new strength in herself, and it is really showing in everything else she does. I am so proud of how hard she has worked this year and how she starting to let her fear no longer get the best of her and just going for it.





What is going on farm wise??? Well everything is up really nice, and weeding of the pumpkins started today, with melody and my mom getting one area of gourds and mini pumpkins all cleaned up, looks like perfection.

I on the other hand have been in a week long fight with our tractor, One of the front hubs had started leaking, so when the last forecast of rain came, i tore into the hub assembly, it came out fast and easy, then that is where everything else went wrong. Lucky with the help of a really really nice friend, he was able to help me sort out the mess i made of it, and it's all back together today.

And by far the most exciting news to me is my farther s day gift, a new bike. I loved it when i first saw it, and after much humming and hawing melody got it for me. I am so happy with it, but the down side is, i feel a little old as autumn as now claimed my old bike - which to me means she is on a full size bike, next is a car. She does seem to be getting a little pleasure from watching me struggle sometimes still with the clip in pedals and shoes she demanded i had to have.

Hope you are having as fun as summer as us.

What do you do when you are a farmer and it is raining???

So Sunday morning we woke up to rain. Owwww what to do?????

So we headed out to breakfast at the eye opener diner and then off to kid nap my mom for a day with us. First stop was at bikes and beyond, to get some issues fixed up on autumns bike. As we walked in i was expecting to hear how busy they were this week and that it would be a couple days, but they grabbed it tossed it on the work stand and fixed every issue there was, they didn't even complain about the puddle of drool i left on the floor next to the new bike i am wanting. So once again to all the staff at bikes and beyond, Thank you.

We headed off for our spring trip to the garden centres on the west side of winnipeg, grabbed a few flowers and some herbs. Then headed continued on our adventure finally ending up at assinibone parks new play ground, the kids had a blast, it is time winnipeg had something like this, so good to see.
We enjoyed a walk around the duck pond and a stroll though the english garden.



So our lazy day saw use once again getting home just before dark, and just in time for we to make a quick walk out to the field. I was pleased to see rows of corn showing themselves and in the one pumpkin area dry enough to walk on, gourds and mini pumpkins are starting coming though the surface, looking so healthy and full of life, with one more day of sun before 30mm of rain on tuesday, things look really good.

Whew.... this week is over.....

This has been one busy week, wednesday night autumn raced at the second wednesday night race series at birdshill park and did amazing, just seconds from first place. Cutting almost 4 minutes off the time of the winner of the first race.
Then thursday we were off to pinawa to pre ride the course for the race on saturday. As i was packing the bikes, out of now where the skies opened up in a half hour downpour. There was water standing everywhere, it was amazing how much water feel that fast. But we rolled out to pinawa, all the time thinking this is crazy we are following the rain there, how will we be able to ride. But to my surprise it was sunny and nice. Autumn headed off on to the trail with her group, and i choose a fun ride with june and melody around town and some riverside trails.


Friday night we went to see a circus that was in winnipeg, it was good, but found ourselves leaving have way though, between autumns allergies to the horses and the family that showed up late and scattered all around us as they talked though the whole show, we made a break for it at intermission. ( we really are not city crowd people...LOL)


Saturday was a beautiful day for autumns race, sunny but not to hot, and she was surprised by her aunty and grandma making the drive to watch her race, and if you have ever been to a mountain bike it is not the most exciting spectator sport. We did some sightseeing around town, going to the suspension bridge and the old dam for a hike. The a ice cream stop on the way back to winnipeg.



We spent the evening with friends camping at birdshill park, enjoying the fire sharing some laughs as we put the end to an amazing day out in nature.