Today was Thanksgiving in Canada.  We had lots planned.  We invited almost our whole church family to come to our house for Thanksgiving dinner.   Well Thankgiving dawned bright and early this morning and before we were even able to get out of bed the electricity went out.  Argh!  I hate that but it seems to be quite a commen reoccerance around here.  I am learning how dependent  I am on the electric company in order to function.  I usually don't mind but today was not a good day for that.  I had dishes to do from baking the evening before, teeth to brush and a shower to take before people got here.  I had potatoes to boil and roast to heat up and gravy to make.  I was in need of electricity.  I came out of my room and the boys said they were hungry.  The dry cereal was almost out and so it had to be bread and peanut butter.  The problem was that the bread was frozen and needed to be thawed out (I usually use the microwave).  The other problem is that when there is no electricity there is also no water because we have an electric pump in the well.  That meant no flush toilets and no water for washing or cooking. 

We did have breakfast but our microwave was the clothes line over the wood stove in the furnace room to thaw the bread.  My husband hung the bread bags over the stove on the clothes line.  I just toasted mine on the top of wood stove.  We are thankful we don't depend on electric heat.

Well, we waited and waited and waited for the electricity to come on.  It finally did, sometime after lunch.  I was just about to call off Thanksgiving dinner except that I couldn't call anybody because I have an electric phone.  Then I figured that if I did get ahold of a phone that could work who would be able to answer because most of them have electric phones too. 

Fortunately, my husband became very helpful and we got the potatoes cooked and mashed and the gravy made and the roast warmed and the dishes almost done and the teeth brushed and the showers taken and then our guests arrived and we had a huge feast and then visiting and games.  What fun we had!  We pulled it off!!!! Yeah!  I am truly giving thanks!

Here is a really cool picture that my friend photo-shopped.  If you notice,  I have no scar on my face!  That is soooo cool!  Now I know what I would look like without it.  Hmmmm,  Any Doctors out there who can photo-shop my actual face?  :0)

I happy for my youngest son!  He is super happy too!!  He is 5 years old and just recieved his first pay check in the mail.  We were all quite surprised when he recieved an official looking letter in the mail addressed to him.  We all stood around while he ripped it open.  It was from the Yukon Art Society.  Inside was a check for $17.15.  Apparently they sold 3 cards of his that he painted.   They then took 35% of the money as payment for doing the selling and he got the rest. 

Here is a picture of his painting.  Sorry there is a glare but I took a picture of it with my camara off the computer screen. 

I sat by him while he painted this, giving him tips and showing him how on a seperate peice of paper.  Then I helped him touch it up just a tiny bit.  He did a good job of it all on his own!  Then after scanning it into the computer, I added the border around the painting. 

Here he is with his very own check!  Happy little camper!

My Artist friends and I were messing around with a camera, trying to get some nice pictures for to go above our biographies in the Art Centre where all of our art is being displayed.  It was a bit cold outside but we managed to get a few nice ones.  I'm not showing all of them here but here is one of me and one of the three of us. 

This is what the Exibit looks like!  I'm excited to have my quilts displayed.  This is wonderful!  I hope that I can sell the zebra one quicky and also get some orders for more.  This first picture is of my exibit.

This Next picture of my friend's exibit.  She does beautiful acylic painting on canvas.   I will post my other friend's exibit later as we didn't get it fully put up this evening.  We will work on that tomorrow.

Ok,  I know you think you saw this one already but you didn't.  I just finished making this one.  It is basically the same as my last zebra quilt but I sold that one and I needed another one like it for the Art exibit that is coming up on the third of October.  Sooo, here it is!  This is what's been keeping me from writing too much on my blog lately.

Our winter supply of firewood is here today.  It is actually enough for two winters worth but we will sell some and that will help pay for the load.  It is great to have it all at once.  19 cord of wood is an awful lot of wood to haul with a mini pick-up so we were glad to find a friend who has a logging truck.  Great bargain.

Cabbage Patch!

Kale Patch!

Peas and Flowers!

All the rest of the garden is done now!  I guess so are these now too.

It feels soooo good! 

The House is clean!

The Apples are canned!

Lunch for tomorrow is made!

The kids are all bathed and gone to bed!

OH, what Blessed Sabbath Rest!

Why do boys like goop???!!!  My three kids had a blast this morning as I enlisted their help to peel tomatoes for making spaggeti sauce.  They all washed up and dove right into the work with gusto.  They thought it was so much fun! 

My Youngest boy especially enjoyed the mess of juice and peels.  After all the tomatoes were peeled and cut, he took advantage of the moment to create an oportunity to make need for a bath.  He loves baths and will do what it takes to create a reason for them when one doesn't exist.  Anyway, he squished and squashed the discarded peels and then rubbed his hands all over his stomach and back and arms.  Then proceeded to let me know that he was in desperate need of a bath.  I could not say no.  I had no choice but to take time out of canning to run a bath for him (Unless of course I really cared to scrub carpets, couches, bedspreads, walls, chairs, tables and toilets.  It's easier to scrub just him).  Crazy kid!!

Here are all the Jars of tomatoe sauce that we did.  Some are "Roasted Read Pepper", "Red Pepper an Olive", and "Spinich"  as well as smaller jars of just plain canned tomatoes for soups and stuff like that.  I am soooo glad to have this mess over with.

My two sons were excited today to post their first blog entries on their new blogs.  It is part of their school program and so once a week there will be a new entry.  Check out my links to my son's blogs.