Measure Twice, Cut Once

We are now in the swing of summer work now, fences to repair and some new ones to make. Baby calves from the Dexter’s, we had three new ones so far still hoping for a late one but not sure.

Hope to beginning putting up more posts to share how things are going on our Northern Alberta homestead. We had to be away for awhile off and on, but we are home now for a good long bit now. Fun when your body is away your mind still remains.

Hope spring is here.

Hello everyone - we are back blogging! I see it has been a long time since the last post, allot has happened since then. It will take a few posts to get things up to date, right now we are just finishing a big job of taking 2 miles of fence down. It will give us enough fence to finish fencing the homestead, we will post about a very simple and cheap way to roll up fence wire.

It is cold out, most morning it is 30 degrees below freezing and that is Celsius, I have been trying to work in this weather but it is slow. I did get some more scaffling up and a few sheets of wall broad up I will soon have the gable wall on the west end finished. Today it is a bit warmer so I will head out into the forest and cut and haul in fire wood, plan to make a post on fire wood making.

I’m not sure if this is new or not but the other day  Kaelynn and I where making some jello I think it was lime. We where wondering if one could make chocolate jello. So the other morning I tried it i took a box of orange jello and mixed it up and added some chocolate syrup to is and it turned out great. It kind of tastes like a chocolate orange, very good with cream.

We made a quick trip out to visit Jennifer’s family on the 25 and we had a photo taken to mark the trip, everyone but Sarah was up for it.

God Bless you all.

The Bogart Family

We had a little break from the Internet for a week or so as to the fact the computer blow out another logic board, I like a Mac computer for the big reason no bugs or very few I have never gotten any. But they can cost allot to fix,(thank God for extended warranty) if it break again the wife is going for a laptop I hope it’s a Mac. Hope to put up a few new posts now that we are back online.

I’m back

I think one of the best things we can do with children in the way of helping them to find their creative sides is to make sure they have lots of stuff to be creative with. I know my wife thinks it is funny, that everytime I’m out and I see paper on sell I buy allot of it or pencils that pretty much goes for any kind of craft supplies. I like to keep allot of it on hand and I let the girls  pretty much have free hand at it with a few limits some days they can get pretty creative. One thing I like to see is them using chalk on paper I have saved some very pretty pictures, those are for when I’m old and toothless I can sit on the porch and dream back to my early days. So let them draw and keep lots of paper and chalk on hand and let them use it freely. Having little ones can be allot of fun if you let it, secret here is to just get in there with them, for we are all kids at heart,. God Bless you and your families.

So yummie, So yummie.

Winter has come to the homestead and along with it fog, Kealynn decided to give the steers Blue and Brownie some hay to eat on this foggy morning.

Thanks Little farmer , this hay is very good.