Today we had snow!!!
It is only October!
It was really cold all day and at dinner time there
was a blizzard going outside! But it only lasted for
about 20 mins and it has all melted now!
But we had time for a quick snowball fight with
John & Evelyn's grandkids which was fun......

It is Thanksgiving Week-end here in Canada.
Today we had a huge turkey dinner. There were initially
only going to be 4 of us for dinner, but when Evelyn
was shopping she felt God telling her
to buy a bigger turkey than the one she had chosen.
There ended up being 11 of us!
So she heard right! We had a great meal - the last visitors
have just left.

Amy & I went camping to Bon Echo Provincial Park for
Friday & Saturday night. (pic below is from their web-site)

We had a great time!
We hired a kayak for 4 hours and went to Bon Echo rock.
There are some native wall paintings and the only way to view
them is from the river, so we had a wee nosy at them.
I did it for you Fawn!!

Thanks to John & Evelyn and Monica (Amy's boss) we had everything
and more for the trip. We even had 2 huge steaks! Despite the fact it
was below freezing on Friday night we were roasting in out tent,
we had so many duvets and blankets.

The park was really pretty with all the trees changing colour.


On the way to Bon Echo, we stopped in a wee town called Tweed.
We saw this advert in their supermarket - for a local laughing club!

Evelyn & I had a canning day on Saturday.
We bought some beets and a huge bag of tomatoes to make
pickled beetroot, chilli sauce and tomato soup.
We were cooking for 7 hours!
This is everything that we made - 6 jars of beetroot, 9 jars of chilli
sauce, 1 huge pot of tomato soup, 36 scones and a dessert for John.


On Saturday night there was the most beautiful sun-set.
This picture does not do it justice at all.
When I was taking the photo I could hear the wild coyotes howling in
the distance - it is a really strange sound.......



On Sunday at church there was what they call 'Soup Sunday'.
Everyone is invited to stay after the service and we all have
lunch together.
Amy had heard that there was a dog show on in Port Hope
in the afternoon and as we both are animal lovers we
headed down for a nosy.
We arrived before the show had started so the owners were
getting their pets ready - it was so funny seeing all these
dogs getting pampered. One lady and her friend needed
an extra pair of hands with their dogs, so
we helped out. These are the doggies below. They have no
hair on their bodies except on thier head and feet.
They felt so strange!


This is a Newfie - who sadly did not win - Ahhhh....