On Tuesday we went and got our dog named Hawk. We had to put down our other dog, Brownie, since she left our yard and bit someone. Hawk is a Black Lab cross Border Collie cross German Shepherd.
The official name he came with is Hawk but each person can add their own variation: Hawkey, Hawkley, Hawkeye, etc.
Hawk sniffing.
Petting Hawk.
Hawk has a long wet tongue and likes licking! We pray that he will be a good dog for us and for others around us!
Here is some footage of our yard and Rosthern, taken with our newest piece of film equipment.
“The earth is the Lord‘s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Psalm 24: 1
On Remembrance Day the older boys and Dad pruned most of the orchard. Here are some pictures:
They had two chainsaws and a reciprocating saw going.
Joshua with an armload of branches.
A row of branches.
The skid steer with grapple.
A load of branches.
Micah standing in front of the huge branch pile. Time to roast hot dogs!
Here is a short video of carrot harvest 2015:
The long rows of carrots. This year we rented several acres of sandy land a couple of miles south of our house. The carrots were planted with a one row garden seeder. Weeding took place on hands and knees down all the long rows. Needless to say, it took a long time!
Through out the season the carrots were watered with a high-pressure sprinkler system from the nearby Arma slough.
Getting ready for a day of harvesting. The harvester pulls the carrots, takes the tops off, and then conveys them over to crates that we built to store the carrots in.
We had some big carrots, some were much larger than these average sized ones!
We built a carrot washer a few years ago but it was starting to need repairs on a regular basis plus getting small for our needs. Because of this, we built this new washer which is about 3 times as big as the old one.
The carrot washer in action.
Joshua and Jesse also built a pallet dumper to dump crates of carrots. The pallet dumper is attached to the skidsteer which we purchased, and allows us to rotate the crates. In this picture Andrew is dumping carrots into tote bags for storage. We were thankful to have finished carrot harvesting on October 26th.
Last week Tuesday we took over 3000 pounds of potatoes out of the ground.
We now dig the potatoes with a plow. It’s not as back-breaking as the fork is, and the potatoes don’t get wrecked as easily.
Only about 10 rows left to go! We dug for over 7 hours. The last while we had to use headlamps, because it was so dark.
Some of the potatoes in the shop. Now we are putting them in boxes and crates for storage!
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;” Ecclesiastes 9: 10a
