Sunday was a warm and sunny day, with spectacular clouds building throughout the day, showing off an amazing sky.
Warm enough for David to wear shorts, but the rest of us kept our long sleeves! We walked the loop and were treated to our favorite views. There's a wide variety of wild flowers on display, and as previously mentioned, the sky!!!
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| The Funk Family |
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| And another cute photo of a cute family! |
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| Four generations! |
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| Playing in the picnic grounds spring. |
Goodness, time has gotten away from me! It's been a long time since I entered a post.
This past weekend we launched the SS Rolinco for a family camping trip at the Mielke picnic grounds. This trip was originally planned for a late April weekend, but farming and cold weather got in the way. Anyway we thought, it will be warmer towards the end of May. Not so much! We had a grand time nevertheless. Alicia picked up a nasty head cold earlier in the week (not covid!). She and Matthew joined us for the afternoon and through dinner on Saturday, but camping in the cold didn't seem like such a good idea.
A few highlights from our time together.
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| Roasting marshmallows for 'smores. |
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| So yummy! |
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| Let's go fly a kite. |
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| Never a lack of wind in our region. |
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| Found a nest of ants. They are so interesting. |
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| Always explaining something. |
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| Climbing a tree! |
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| Made it up to dad, with a little help from mama. |
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| Chilly Saturday morning. |
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| Driving the SS Rolinco. |
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| We kept a fire going most of the time, for cooking and for warming up. |
This is a hurry up and wait spring! Last week Alicia and I finished spraying an aid to tillage rate of Round-Up on the stubble ground. It was a full week before the weather cooperated for one day so that Matthew and Reynald could apply herbicide to the remaining winter wheat crop. There's still 320 acres to do but they ran out of daylight. Back to wind and a spit of rain here and there's no spraying for a few more days at least.
As a wonderful consolation to not being able to do the field work that we want/need to do, the sky is giving up some spectacular views!
Last week it was cold and windy and cold and windy and cold and snowy and windy! We're back in the field, on schedule to finish seeding by week's end. At least the snow provided some much needed moisture!
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| The second snowfall event last week! |
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| Poor little grape hyacinth bravely blooming despite the cold. |
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| Daffodils and snow! |
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| A dramatic late afternoon sky and Baxter. |
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| Seeding spring wheat, sans snow! |
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| Equipment line up and such a pretty sky. I took this photo after I parked the coil packer at the end of the line. My best attempt to keep it even with everything else! |
Sunday we gathered at the Funk family residence to dye eggs, enjoy a delicious brunch prepared by David, Roni Jo and Ryan, and then hunt for hidden eggs after nap time! A great time was had by all.
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| Taking it all in before he decides to help. |
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| Helping Auntie! |
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| Matthew and GG over seeing the egg dyeing. |
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| and one more thing grammy...... |
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| Some eggs were relatively easy to find..... |
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| and some were cleverly camouflaged! |
We woke up to about a 1/2 inch of snow this morning. After a short break, it began to snow again, and continued most of the day. At times the ground was white, but mostly it melted as it fell. Needless to say, we did not seed today!
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| The poor daffodils are bent over from the cold, cold nights. |
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| This clump is particularly sad and the peony that is trying so hard to grow is bent over as well. |
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| Everything in the yard has had a rough go this past week. |
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| This is about as white as it got here at our house, even with snow falling most of the day. |
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| The drills are parked for the day. |
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| Kal the tractor is waiting for warmer weather just like the rest of us! |
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| Freshly seeded spring wheat field. We won't be seeing new sprouts any time soon with this cold weather. |
