HAPPY BIRTHDAY MURRAY

On Sunday Murray had a birthday so I baked him his favorite cake - angelfood.Monday was an extra busy day. We did our annual weaning of the steer calves. It takes all of us to help round the cattle up and sort the cows from the calves then the steers from the heifers. Here Murray and Steven K. are doing some sorting.

After sorting, the steers were loaded on a cattle liner we hired plus our own liner.
The liner we hired was bigger!

Here is our own rig ready to back up to the loading chute.

This year for the first time ever in the history of Little Gem Ranches our steer calves went to an auction market instead of being sold right off the farm. They went all the way to Lethbridge so Murray took his load yesterday & stayed over for the sale. So far I haven't heard if selling there was a wise decision!

Also yesterday my cousin Adeline stopped in for the evening & overnight on her way home to Saskatoon from Calgary. With Murray gone for the night I was happy to have some company & we spent a lovely evening catching up.

Today was such a warm Autumn day that in spite of there still being some flies I decided to wash some windows. You just never know when that white stuff may decide to pay us a visit!

Nicholas & Mommy.

I have just returned home from a week (Friday to Friday) visiting Kim & Nicholas. It was fun & busy. With Yan in Winnipeg I tried to do some of his jobs in the yard. Nicholas is a very active boy who could live outside so whenever it was not raining or he was asleep guess where we were?!!!

Nicholas found water in the birdbath after one rain and since it was fresh I let him play!

A boy of many talents! He could not decide what to eat first, the cereal or eggs. so tried doing both at once.

Give me something to dig in & I am happy.

Kim came home from a course in Victoria with this rain suit for Nic I dubbed the pumpkin suit!
Hamming it up for Grandma.
Rearranging the landscaping a bit more to his liking!
Trying to ride the trike but it is still a little too large for him. However ....... going outside without it was not an option.

Enjoying the swing at the park. (With the ever present trike in the background!)

We enjoyed some of Baba's perogies for supper one night & Nicholas ate 5! Pretty soon he will be vying for the record with Jeremy & Ken !
Saying goodbye to Grandma. I knew it was time for me to go home when Kim came home from work & Nic ran & hid behind ME!!! I did have a wonderful time though & look forward to next time.

I flew back to Calgary Friday in time to meet Murray at the It Is Written Parnership Weekend. Scott joined us so I was blessed to see both my children in the same day! My Mom was also there. We were also blessed to get acquainted with Steve & Joni Darmody at the dinner table Friday evening. Saturday afternoon we returned home for Pat Schetzsle's 90th birthday celebration.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!