CSA Week #2

Happy rainy harvest day!

This morning's CSA basket preparations were done to a symphony of raindrops, bird chirps, and Fitz's early morning crows. It was delightful albeit a little soggy.

This week's baskets include: a spring cabbage, broccoli leaves, rhubarb, sorrel, kale, asparagus, scallions, radishes and young radish greens, lovage, garlic chives, apple mint, parsley, sage, oregano, dill, marjoram, thyme, baby head lettuce, daikon microgreens, wasabi mustard microgreens, red clover microgreens, and a dozen farm fresh eggs. The special items this week are fresh baked bread made with butterfly pea flowers and lavender from our farm and a jar of this spring's maple syrup.

Before

After

Have a great Tuesday everyone. Enjoy the lovely springtime showers.

Monday Morning

Good morning! Thank you for opening our barn door.
We are not quite ready to get up yet but after a stretch and a yawn, we will see.
We know it is a beautiful, sunny day and that the pasture is green and sweet.
But we're not quite ready to get up yet.
Give us a minute and then we will see.

 

An Adventure of a Birthday

Liam is nowhere close to catching up to Mr. George's 80 years, but nonetheless, we made a big deal out of celebrating his first nine years anyway.  It was a jam packed day of fun and adventure!

Liam's cake was "hiking in the forest"-themed
complete with a rainbow jellybean waterfall, of course.

We began the day bright and early with cinnamon raisin French toast with fresh vanilla whipped cream and homemade maple syrup.

Then it was time for the adventure to begin with a 5.5 km hike at the Lime Kiln trail. Hiking has become a lot more interesting since the wind storm so we had to reroute a few times when our usual trails were impassable due to fallen trees.

After fueling up on All You Can Eat Sushi, Liam's birthday adventure continued with our first post-COVID visit to the climbing gym.

But that was not all!  Next we brought out the bouncy castle before having some birthday cake.

Thank you, Ms. Kerry, for such incredible fun!

No one was hungry for supper so after gift opening, it was off to bed. 

Everyone was asleep within minutes. What a joyful, albeit exhausting, day.  We are so happy to celebrate our super smart, incredibly adventurous eldest son on his ninth birthday. We are excited to see him continue to grow, learn and have fun over the next year.  Happy Birthday Liam!

Liam got a bug jacket to wear on his next adventure.
Next weekend Liam and his Daddy are going canoe camping
in Algonquin Park.  Now the bugs won't carry him away!

Party & Play

It is going to be a busy weekend, jam packed with birthdays and other fun, but we did make some time for some early Saturday morning lawn maintenance.

Then it was off to party and play!

We helped our front yard neighbour, Mr. George, ring in his 80th birthday.

Then it was off for a very, very long park play.

Saturday afternoons at the park are the best!

Made It

Feeling lucky to have made it to Friday. It was a busy, busy week. Attending our first post-COVID house concert was the perfect way to ring in the weekend!

Handful of Haskaps

Don't mind if I do...tart and delicious.

 

Candle Blowing Brothers

Today was Liam's 9th birthday. We will be celebrating with a party on Sunday but Liam was very excited by the idea of a store-bought cake (a novelty in a household of homemade birthday cakes, I suppose). And each boy needed to have their own chance to blow out the candle. AND they each needed to have Happy Birthday sung to them while doing so. Sigh. Luckily Liam is a good sport and was very patient with his younger brothers...as long as he got to eat the rose.  #memories #icing #yum