Alberta Farm Century Award

On June 14, 2010 the Sankey family was recognized for having maintained ownership of the original homestead for 100 years and were presented with a placque by the Special Areas.

Dimitrious filed his homestead claim on April 2, 1910.

On Saturday, June 12, we had outdoor church at Kevin & Angie's.

The old train station was a nice backdrop. Some from the Hanna church joined us as well. We rounded out the day with a weiner roast & worship in the evening. Thanks Kevin & Angie for hosting us in such a lovely setting.

Saturday was also Father's 86th birthday & Mother & Father's 61st wedding anniversary. Congratulations to them!

Sunday we had a wonderful visit from Debby Schmitt & Mary, her mother-in-law! They live in Las Vegas & were in Oyen for a funeral. Thanks guys for taking the time to come see our beautiful green world!

Saturday afternoon Scott, Patricia & Skye came out & brought friends Irfan, Fatima, Ahmed & Sophia. They wanted a tour of the baby calves & bison. It was windy & raining so the tour was quick but we did enjoy the visit nontheless.


The observation has been made that it rains when Skye comes out so we will have to have her come out more often!
While she was here it managed to rain over 3/4 in.

April Snow

On Tuesday & Wednesday we had a spring snowstorm that left us with about 10 inches of heavy wet snow and a power outage of about 16 hours. Our mugo pine trees were pretty flat. This is what Murray saw Wed morning when he went to feed

Calves born outside didn't look too happy to say the least
Steven K. ready to bring this one in.

Bringing in more wet, cold calves

In the barn they were bedded in dry straw & warmed up before going back outside. What a chore.

Nicholas Turns Three

Nicholas turns tree on April 17 so we decided to celebrate a week early while they were here..

Waiting to open gifts.



Angie brought Jaren & Landen over to play & help Nic celebrate.

We even had the greatgrandparents here & Uncle Scott & Auntie Patricia

Nics passion is "CARS" and Lightning McQueen

Kim & I had stayed up late Friday decorating
Nics request for a "Cars" cake.

More of the cake we were so pleased with. ( and Nic was suitably impressed also!)

Enjoying the cake

Lucas wasn't left out

Nic even had a McQueen pinata that he loved playing with so it didn't get demolished & he took it home!

Kim & Boys Visit

Last wknd Kim, Nic & Luc came for a visit.

While Lucas had to content himself with playing with a toy John Deere tractor....

Nicholas got to experience the real thing.

He even got to steer the Buck.

Little boots join big boots after a day in the muck. Grandpa couldn't have been happier!

Help from Carpenter Ken

I have a month's worth of blogging to catch up on so here goes....

For almost 2 weeks the end of March, Ken & Ev came from Kelowna to help us with finishing our house.

Handyman Ken doing our trims & baseboards.

He also helped us with numerous other projects around the house. Thanks, Ken. It was a treat to have your expertise and ingenuity!
Ev cheerfully helped in the kitchen & washed up dishes as I unpacked them from boxes to put away. We had a great time working & laughing!
Mom spent some time here with us as well & made us fresh perogies. Yum!
Ev, Mom & me.

Scott & Patricia came Easter wknd & we enjoyed turkey Saturday. Ev & Ken left Easter Sunday.