Travels of the Agnew Family for 2008.01.01 to 2010.01.31

Last week went incredibly fast between cooking up the vegetables I bought at market on the weekend, cleaning the house, major work on the gardens (removing shrubs, making one garden disappear and shrinking a couple of others, transplanting the plants I want to save --- still have lots to do but I made a pretty good start), a day off to shop with Margaret (I've decided to try my hand at quilting and bought material for 8 placemats) and a trip down to Brantford with a stop in Burlington on the way to pick up a couple of things and visit my mom. My old boss lives on a small farm (around 34 acres) just outside of Brantford and is having a great time with the hobby farm lifestyle. The house is fairly old and needs updating which are the winter project for the next number of years and gardens and landscaping which are the summer projects. This year they have added animals to the mix --- 3 ponies and a miniature horse. Jess the 14 year old daughter is horse crazy --- rides at a barn six days a week, is training the miniature horse for show and rides two of the ponies (the 3rd one's not broken). Jess took Ed, Zaph and me out to meet the horses. As it was raining I was carrying an umbrella to protect the camera (had to take some photos) which unfortunatley spooked one of the horses which in turn spooked two other horses. The miniature horse Flash was pretty laid back and didn't mind the umbrella .... I think he was too interested in finding out what type of creature was running around outside of the paddock. Flash and Zaph both ended up by the fence sniffing each other and eventually Zaph gave Flash a big kiss. As usual Kathleen cooked a fantasic meal and we had a great visit.


"The Man" and the girls --- the miniature horse is male while the other three are female.


Flash was a little more social than the other three because he wasn't afraid of umbrellas.


What is that thing?????? Zaph and Flash meet eye to eye.


Sizing each other up.