Sunday, September 5, 2010

Summer!






Wow! It has been awhile since I’ve updated. I have been soo busy recently that I hardly had time to do my online work. A couple days ago ‘Suvose’ itself came and bestowed guilt upon me, leaving me with no choice. So I decided I will write about the summer.
I will start with the wedding in July. One of our girls got married to Huxley, Alberta, around Red Deer. I have to say it was a beautiful wedding, I was soo happy to have been given the chance to see one of my friends start a lifelong dream!
After the wedding something terrible happened to me. I did not know what was happening to me, I wasn’t really here for 5 full weeks. Maybe it might have been a blessing, because soo many people have told me that what happened has changed their life for the better. I definitely know it changed mine. I have God to thank for everything.
Then there is all the garden work. We have been soo busy. Canning is a number one priority in the summer. We also have two markets a week, and each market is soo immensely big that it takes us two days to prepare one! We work from 8am until 6pm preparing everything. Personally I think its such a pleasure working with all the ladies and girls, I must say I never took a single day for granted.
During the time we worked in the garden we also made lots of sausage, baked bread, buns, hamburger buns, hotdog buns, and many different kinds of pies to sell. These doings have bestowed much joy and delight upon me, while working. That’s the best thing about living in a colony, the togetherness with everyone.
After supper we also found time to reward ourselves with the diversion of hitting the pool in town. We got to go there about three times a week. All our little girls were satisfied that they had the advantage of learning top swim on those days. I must say their dives were getting pretty amazing too!
This week I was cooking with Glenda and my Aunt Mary Ann. It was a great week, we had soo many great laughs.
The guys are also combining, we have been richly blessed with a beautifull harvest this year. Again I say, I can’t thank our good Lord enough!
Next week we are butchering turkeys, oh and I’m gonna go see my massage therapist, yup I need it!