Some Serious Sprout Eating

My husband loves, loves, loves sprouts!  He made himself a sandwich he other day and he told me...

This is One Big Hairy Deal!!!

Notice that this Sandwich is made with three slices of bread!  That way he can get twice as many sprouts with two layers.  

Do you want to meet my wonderful neighbors?

Here they are!  Most of them live the property adjacent to ours and we can go visit them whenever we want to.

Many Elk

There are several Muskox but this guy would not get his head out to of the trough for me and I'm sorry about the fence but apparently they are really aggressive so they have a double fence all the way around their big pastures so no one gets hurt.

The Caribou.  Such funny looking animals.  This guy was quite agitated today for some reason.

 Here are two cute fellows that were having their nap and were not really impressed with my visit today.

 There is a lynx in this next picture.  Apparently nap time for him too.

Here is my favorite guy.  He did some talking to us too.  he was so cute!

We also have some dall sheep and another kind (I can't remember).  There is also Mrs. Moose and tons of ground hogs and some bald eagles and golden eagles.  And... So many Bison.  

Isn't it so nice to have such wonderful neighbors. 

Here is a picture of one of our neighbors to the side of us who is giving my boys rides and teaching them to ride on his quad.

And so there you have it!  Welcome to our Neighborhood.

I also took this picture of a little girl at homeschool group today.  This is a true Canadian Yukoner!!

She rode her bike in her mini skirt and even fell in the snow.  She was totally unconcerned!

She was loving her bare feet moments too.  Silly child!  :0)

Here is what my garden is looking like.  

More pics of the boys

The boys have joined Pathfinders and are so proud of their uniforms.  They are loving it!  Right now they are working on honors in safety I believe, knot tying, and silk screening.

 

Wordless Wednessday

Can I call it Wordless Wednesday when my last post was written today too, and it should have been called "Wordy Wednesday"?

Ok,  For the wordless part -- :0)

What's been Happen'n

Rats!  Spring break is over!  Well, it is for most people.  Now we have to get back into the groove.  Soooo hard!  The kids have been sick with one thing or another for 3 weeks.  I can't believe it because usually they are very healthy and hardly ever get sick.  We are still not over everything and I'm tired of it.
Oh well,  you can't just quit, life keeps happening. 
Yesterday the boys and I caught up on laundry.  We went through every drawer of their dressers and sorted out everything that is too small.  We washed every bit of laundry that we could find in the house, folded and put it away.  It amounted to about the size of Mount Everest I'm sure.  Clearly a sign of too many un-needed clothes!  However,  it is all educational right.  Ummm....did I say spring break was over and we still weren't in the groove?  Well, we were grooving the clothes pile yesterday.  :0)

We have also been trying to keep up with our garden.  It really has been getting away on us.
The boys and I have been making newspaper pots for our plants because we don't have money right now for the plastic kind.  We are anticipating a lovely garden and we plan to build our greenhouse just as soon as the snow gets out of the way.  We have a lot of cucumber, zucchini and tomato plants.  I've also got cabbage and broccoli that is desperate for transplanting.  Not sure if there is enough time in a day though.  But this is educational right?

We always seem a little short of money when it reaches this end of the winter or the beginning of spring.  I'm not sure why but it seems to be the case every year.  Anyway,  it is time to start making little projects for our little market store.  This year I've already got a number of quilts to sell already made so we get to focus on the smaller items now.  Hoping also, that our garden produce will be plentiful enough to sell too.
Here are the boys making homemade buttons to sell.  We all worked on the project together.  Learning to make money --- That's good eh?  (can you tell, I have a bit of a guilty conscious for not cracking the whip on school right now. :0)

 Nine hole buttons (above) for the purpose of 

writing whatever comes to mind while you are sewing buttons.

And well, to top it all off, we are still eating yummy food, trying to be healthy against all odds.  

Ta ta for now!

Now back to our education - Uh, that would be skating and playing hockey.  It's the last day for that till next year.  Can't miss it for all the sickness and education in the world or I will never hear the end of it.  :0)