First time camping in the camper!

We spend Saturday (June 23rd,2012) in our camper at the land for the first time!

We headed out around 6:00p.m., grabbed some A&W on the way and settled in for a little drive. We decided to leave the camper where it was instead of moving it to the "new" spot we have picked out.  I mowed the landing area where we park so I could set up the fire pit and avoid any fire risk. We had a nice little fire and then set up the camper for night.

 You can see Emma "burning off some energy" running around the campsite. The bed situation worked great, Emma was super excited to be in her own kids sized sleeping bag.

                                                Pee before night time :)

 In the morning I woke up early to get a head start on the trail mowing.  Around 9am we dragged a little 6 year old out of bed and we drove to a local restaurant for some breakfast and then came back to the camper so I could do some more mowing and the girls relaxed in the camper.  All in all a successful trip.

                                           One tired dog

   Afternoon hotdogs,chips and a movie (and a beer for dad,cropped out)

This a deer from my "trail cam", you can see his antlers are coming in nice. This deer has Dave's name all over it.

Here is a link to a few more pictures,  CLICK HERE

Here is a link to all the pictures I have of Sadie.  These cover the years from 2006-2012, which coincidentally is about the same amount of time miss Emma has been around. (I didn't own a digital camera before Emma).  Most pictures you may have to look closely to find her, there may only be a snout, ear or paw showing, BUT, she was there all the time. CLICK HERE

April and May 2012 lots of Spring time work

Well it's May long weekend (Monday May 21st.)  Emma spent her second night at her Nana Susie's house because I am on call and Naomi was working till midnight.  We have had a busy couple of months.  In the pictures you will see Emma had a dance recital and Nana Shirley came down just for that.  There were two shows and Ambrose stayed with us and was able to see both.  We had a great weekend with him staying over for one night.(thank goodness Nana Shirley was there to comfort him in the middle of the night, he was calling out for nana)

I was also busy at our land, you can see I hired my excavator friend,Rob, to do more work.  He made a new driveway that leads to a new location where we plan to build a small cabin.  It is right in a patch of bush with some more "mature" trees.  He also cleared all the trees and brush from the trails we had started in December with my friends Dean's dozer.     Last week I went out to see how the trails were looking and I could see a large fire in the direction of my land.  Once I was there I could see the water bombers flying back and forth overhead, getting water from the lake.  I dragged my newly acquired 'spike drags", they worked awesome. They help level the dirt on the trails and also catch small tree roots and pull them clear.  Lots of work still but at least now there are nice trails to four corners of the property, approximately 2-3miles of trails now cleared.  On my way home I picked up a set of old horse drawn disc harrows that I will be able to use in the open areas to break the ground for planting a crop.

Here is River at  the "old" site where the outhouse and camper are still sitting. I hope to use the disc harrows here to work the land and hopefully plant something

Water bomber flying in the distance, quad with spike drag.

On mother's day weekend Emma helped me plant  some beans and peas we got from our visit with Leo and while putting those in I decided to put in the entire garden.  We also have corn,carrots, potatoes and cucumber.

Me and Leo at his place.  Emma took the picture.
Here is a link to more photos click here

March 4th,snowmobiling and sledding

Well we got off to an early start this morning when Emma woke up requesting "Farm Animal Pancakes".  They were a big hit.  I then took River out in the yard to get the snowmobile going and take her for a run.

After a snowmobile ride we loadded up the sleds and snowmobiled over to the slide on the hill.  Not sure what we'll do to cap off such a great Sunday but we'll see.

Here is a link to a few more pictures...click

Fishing at Whitemouth Lake

Well I got the entire family packed up on Saturday (Feb. 4th) and we headed out to Whitemouth Lake for a fishing trip and quick visit to our land (outhouse mainly)
  A hydro buddy with his two sons were already out on the ice at another friend's ice shack.  It was about -3c and just a great day to be out on the ice.  They apparently killed a few days ago but we weren't as lucky.  I caught a big jackfish but Naomi caught her first fish "ice fishing fish" ever. 

 Four of the live minnows were not used and are now living in "Friendly's" old aquarium and Emma is so excited to have new fish. She didn't even care that her line didn't catch anything, she said "as long as we had fun, right?" They survived three days now so we'll see how it goes.

I fried up that lone pickerel on Sunday night in the same batter as the Christmas fish fry and suddenly Naomi is asking about how much ice augers cost, and maybe building an ice shack. (!?!?)  my plan worked perfectly :) 


Here are a few more pics from January and February.  click

Winter 2011/2012

This post will have pictures of my hunting trip with Dave in November, some of ski trails being cleared in December and also the Christmas visit to Manitoba by Des and Emile.

Realized more pictures are on another camera, standby for additions to this blog and Picasa site.

Here we are on January 7th, just enough snow for River to pull Emma in the sleigh. We went to see the new wooden slide structure but it doesn't have the slide part built yet.

Here is Emma just before Christmas on skates at the rink for the first time.  I wasn't allowed out on the ice without a helmet so she went out all by herself for an hour and a half.

River and Emma with the new reflective leash.

Here is the link to more photos

July camping in the backyard and my birthday garden gnome Emma picked out

While Naomi went to a friends house for a campfire, Emma and I decided to have our own and set up a tent for the night.  It was a huge success.  She checked out the fire for a bit and "wished upon a star" but was too excited about the tent so we went to bed in there early.

She couldn't sleep because of all the night noises and whenever I looked over at her she was just grinning ear to ear in the dark.  So I ran into the house for an extension cord and her fan and by the time I got back two minutes later she was out. 

When I got home tonight I was greeted by a garden gnome that Emma had picked out for me for my birthday.  I love it, I think it's kinda what I'll look like when I'm old with a crazy huge garden out back with no lawn.

Here are a couple more pics, check out the captions for more info on each photo.  click