Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Fall so Far....

We've got a little beaver in our house now.  Drew started Beavers with the 7th Milton colony.  He's doing it with his playgroup buddy, Cody.  He's loved it so far.

I turned a year older, James and the boys got a cake for me (and my MIL whose birthday is in the same month)

We've made a favourite tree at Nana and Papa's into a climbing tree.  The boys have spent a lot of time playing in it.

Add a cushion and voila, it's a fort now!

The boys love their Nana.

Maple syrup is something that we've been wanting to produce for quite some time now.  On a small level of course (only enough for us, if that).  I've been searching on ebay and all over the internet for these spigots for about a year now and they were in our basement the whole time.  I should have known.  Dad had them all along, but didn't know I was looking for them!  Can't wait until the spring to try them out!








Finally made our first trip to the kawartha dairy near the cottage.  It was YUMMY!

Drew has started basketball.  He LOVES it.



We had thanksgiving dinner at our friend's cottage.  

The boys playing at ours.  Still no floor, maybe one day!  lol








We spent thanksgiving Monday at the Erin fall fair with Nana and Papa.

We met up with John, Sue and Larissa there.














We harvested our pumpkin.  The boys were SO excited.



Friends of ours grow GIANT pumpkins.  They grew one this year that weighed over 1300lbs.  It won 1st place at the fair.  They even wrote a book on growing giant pumpkins.  I bought the book, but typical me, didn't really read it until after I had planted the plant that they gave me.  Turned out I didn't give the plant enough room to grow in my garden.  This pumpkin was grown on one of the side vines and grew off to the side of my garden, in my lawn!  Next year will be better!!