Canning

Joni found smily face at work.

Just finished my 3rd canning year here in Wingham and it was a blast!!! My partner was wonderful!! Sharon is never out of ideas and is a full spring of knowledge. Her mother and my mother-law gave us tremendous, very much appreciated, tips and advice. It was a pleasure working with you ladies!!!! Hope we can do it again sometime.


We tried a few new things like pickles from a newspaper clipping and homemade relish. We also had some left over corn cobbs so we cut them into one inch peaces and popped them into jars as well for the kiddies. Our last job was making dash and it turned out wonderful, the bits where real tiny and almost salt-like.

NO !!

Our Sweet Puppy is no more and there is no nice way of saying what happened so I won't say it. We really miss her a lot. She was beautiful!!

Nelda

My name is from a relitive in Ontario who I've met only once, and it means “of the Elder tree.”

If you know anything about an Elder tree you might know how it tends to grow unruly unless it is pruned often. I have two of them on my lawn and I know that to be true. That would describe me quite well, and I do have to work very hard at the little goodness I have. The church helps keep me in ship-shape so that I can bear any kind of fruits at all.

The fruits of an an Elder tree are called Elderberries and they are suposed to make wonderfuly sweet jam. They are a bright red (my used to be favorite color) round and remind me of blood drops. So all this makes me think that the blood of Jesus Christ was not shed in vain for my sake, I need it to be covered. Not that I will sin carelessly or purposely but that is my hope and my salvation.

Goodbey Toffee

We lost our friend a few weeks ago to the instincts of our dog Lyla. He was a good rabbit and we loved him. The kids buried him in the bushes that he loved to play in.

Eight year old Grace wrote a cute poem for him that I'd like to share with you.

Toffee love

Step by step

Memory by memory

Love is falling apart.

-Grace Kleinsasser

Best Yet

Carrie's farewell cake marks the passing of a much anticipated wedding, and it was lovely.

This is by far the most beautiful cake I have ever been involved in; Sharon and I made it. I wouldn't change a thing on it.

Judas' 8Th birthday cake, we played a fox and goose hide and seek game with the kids. It didn't quite turn out, when the geese made their trail with shavings, the path was destroyed by the lawnmower that was making it's rounds that evening. My group spend an hour in the back a potato truck in a shed. No bad bugs, but a lot of the smaller kids needed to go every 5 min, but it turned out to be fun anyway. Judas is just taking the responsibility of mowing some lawns, he is doing good!!

Krista's birthday cake was a fun experience, it was my first with fondant. It would be a little nicer with a paler purple, but that's not bad for a first.

How's this for the most grossed out person on the colony? Funny that her girls were fighting over who gets the spider in the end.

Bugs

Here I am with sky and trees

Wondering in the singing breeze

I stand amazed at the huge sun

And marvel at the larger ones

But looking down just at my feet

The smallest miracles I meet

A tiny flower of pure white

A purple Harebell delicate

A fly as glittery as a princes fairy

Glistens as it caches rays

A worm bejeweled and crowned

A dandelion's perfect round

I've never seen an emerald green

But this beautiful bug is all I need