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Offline copticruiser

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oh what a canadian year
« on: November 12, 2012, 11:53:38 PM »
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  • Havent been online for a long time but I will give a general list why. It has been too long I really miss my online catholic world.

    Harvested 11 gallons of tomatoes (lots of watering)
    500lbs potatoes (lots of digging and watering )
    100lbs of carrots (aim to do better next year for that one)
    150lbs of turnips  (good enough a nice treat raw with salt)
    12 zuccinins
    10 squash
     4 garbage bags of russian kale (excellent vegi tastes better under snow )

     Harvested My own carrot seed, turnip seed, and tomatoe seed

    Averaged 1.5 gall of goat milk, 2 gall of cows milk per day and played with cheese making, yogurt making.

    Did some horseback riding with the kids, fishing, boating, swimmin, camping, visited our favorite homeschool families.

    butchered ducks, chickens, rabbits, goats, moose, fish, and bear

    then canned most of them

    picked 9 gall of fruit (saskatoons, and raspberries)
    ordered alot of apples from the okanagan ( southern part )
    they will keep till spring in the cellar
    made some apple sauce and pie of course

    still running after hubby and 6 kids and managed to order some homeschool supplies and working on structure and housework

    made it to one horse show sold a bunch of rabbits and convinced my husband I needed another horse so we are up to 3 and I think 12 hooves that need farrier work is all I can handle at the moment.

    Loving reading JOHN SALZA   The biblical basis for Tradition and The Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liqouri

    We have the white stuff early this year and it got down to 21 below for a few days but were up to zero (celcius) so far over a foot of snow.

    Still milking two nannies and waiting for my hens to give me more than 3 eggs per day.

    Thats about it other than our sspx priest came 4 times and said mass then we drove 6hrs return to a ukrainian parish (thats what we are)

    Oh a family we knew to be NO converted and our now in our area they have 7 kids so its nice to see the traditonal change in them. Very surprized they converted but they do read and research and have always been marian and never got along with charasmatic catholics.

    Would love to hear what all else you guys do with your time I never seem to have enough of it.



    Offline ora pro me

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    oh what a canadian year
    « Reply #1 on: November 13, 2012, 10:11:34 AM »
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  • I enjoyed reading about all your accomplishments. What a productive summer you had!


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    oh what a canadian year
    « Reply #2 on: November 13, 2012, 10:44:24 AM »
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  • What a fantastic reason for not being online! Your back must be broken with that many potatoes to dig up, wow. I can't wait until our summers look something like that again. It feels a bit like being in exile with our teeny backyard garden in town for the past few years. God-willing, we will be settled soon.

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    oh what a canadian year
    « Reply #3 on: November 14, 2012, 01:50:18 PM »
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  • Quote from: ora pro me
    I enjoyed reading about all your accomplishments. What a productive summer you had!



    Thanks but call me crazy I feel like Im always behind the 8 ball! My biggest pet peeve is housework. Cant seem to motivate the kids to pitch in and pick up after themselves. My challenge is to get them to do it without getting upset with them. motherhood is so trying at times. Onward ahead there is only one direction thats up.

    have a good day, annie :farmer: