Christmas at the Farm

Next thursday Dec 17th we will have our Christmas dinner for eveyone at the farm. We hope that Santa will drop by.. with his elf... Kyle. Similiar looking to the Kyle that comes to programmes here. After dinner we will have games and Bingo and prizes and maybe gifts.

Tomorrow Friday Dec 11th The children from Queen of Angels school will come to perform a christmas pagent for us in the chapel. We will all join in the singing.

Goodbye to all and MERRY CHRISTMAS



the rams have gone to the butcher andi am mad because my ram has gone to the butcher.

Christmas tree decorating

we all want down to city square to decorate the providence farm christmastree and it was fun and because in is a good time with your friends dan i want to thank marke for taking us down there and he was nice a nuough to set up a tent for us because it was raining.

Jacqui is leaving the farm and we are all sad because we all will miss her but we wish her all the best adn good luck in your new career and if you do not leave the island please com back and visit.

i hope i can get some one to help me blog and if i do i will send a message to jacqui

I will be starting janitor work with Al on Friday and i hope to have fun on Fridays doing it because i alos went to do it beczuse i think it wood be fun.

I am doing music on Mondays and it will be fun. the sheep are pregnant and litte jackkie is fat as can be and she looking like a mom.

here is a link to Homefarm and their blog.. done by ours HT intern Emma http://homefarm.edublogs.org/

farm update

The halloween party at Providence farm was fun. Everybody was at the party. I was Roberts' lawyer

a new project

jacqui and i are going to make a mosaic of a rainbow serpent and it will
be all different colours and out of stones adn clay and sticks and stones.

The Rainbow Serpent is a common motif in the art & mythology of Aboriginal Australia.
The Rainbow Serpent is seen as the inhabitant of permanent waterholes and is in control of life's most precious resource, water. He is the underlying Aboriginal mythology for the famous Outback "bunyip". He is the sometimes unpredictable Rainbow Serpent, who vies with the ever-reliable Sun, that replenishes the stores of water, forming gullies and deep channels as he slithered across the landscape, allowing for the collection and distribution of water.
Dreamtime stories tell of the great Spirits during creation, in animal and human form they molded the barren and featureless earth. The Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains and gorges as it pushed upward. The Rainbow Serpent is known as Ngalyod by the Gunwinggu and Borlung by the Miali. He is a serpent of immense proportions which inhabits deep permanent waterholes.[1]
Serpent stories vary according to environmental differences. Tribes of the monsoonal areas depict an epic interaction of the Sun, Serpent and wind in their Dreamtime stories, whereas tribes of the central desert experience less drastic seasonal shifts and their stories reflect this.
It is known both as a benevolent protector of its people (the groups from the country around) and as a malevolent punisher of law breakers. The rainbow serpent's mythology is closely linked to land, water, life, social relationships and fertility.
There are innumerable names and stories associated with the serpent, all of which communicate the significance and power of this being within Aboriginal traditions.

from link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Serpent
see also http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762506834/Rainbow_Serpent.html

animals video

to day we trying up load a video of Jacquie sheep was geting a massage and she was likeing it. She was very happy about the massage.

visitor at the farm

Yae-eun has com to visit and we rae all very happy to see her we collect esgg and scare the chickens and it was her firs time adn we were very happy to have her help she will be here for to days and then she will be moving to th main land. and we will all miss her again a nd we all wish her the best of luck.

SPREADING THE NEWS

i am letting people know about my blog because i want people to read about what we are doing at the farm and your comments are welcome and i will like to welcome you to my blog.

Providence celebrates our 30th anniversary

last weekend we celebrated our 30th anniversary as a therapeutic community.we had a about 600 people a the tea party out in the garden. Sisters of Saint Ann gifted us the 400 acer property. to continue our work at the farm and thatis nice of them and we thank them.

went to the cross all most heaven

Wednesday August 26 09 Dwight and I went to the cross on the top of Mt Tzouhalem and it took a but an hour and a half and an hour to get down and whwn Igot to the top I yelled HELLO Duncan!!

Runing club is now finished for the year it will start up in the late spring in 2010

pigs

we have three new sheep and they are cute and two are white and one is black and white. the pigs are leaving this week and they are going to the butcher

The new chickens are finally starting to lay.. we now get brown eggs and white eggs. The new brown eggs are still very small compared to the white eggs.

Kevin is finishing the sidewalk at the new St Annes Garden Club building.. They moved their stuff in last week and the seniors started the program in their new building this week.

And the apples in the garden are greenj and should be ripe by the end of September. We will harvest them and take them to Victoria to be pressed into apple cider. We will sell the apple cider in our store.

folk festival

the folk festival is coming to the farm and it is going to be busy and that is cool because then we make losof money in the store and the rental. this weekend July 24 to 26 it is very busy at the farm and that is good for the folk guild. because it is a fun time.

see the link below for more information
http://www.folkfest.bc.ca/

to day we are going to try to maked a link to the Providence farm web site. http://www.providence.bc.ca/

we will also try to link to our friend and HT Intern Emma
http://homefarm.edublogs.org/

the weather has been cool and at times it has been hot and that is not good because then they ban camp fire and that is notgood because

The chickens are not laying many eggs these days and that is not good because then people can not buy eggs and theny we do dont make money and that is not good because then we cant do the things we want to do and that is not good because then we cant buy more thing for the store. we only got five egg today. we have about 100 chickens the new chickens should be starting to lay soon.

the ravens got Patrick and thatg is sad because we will all miss him in the pig Pen - his home.

We are getting ready for the HOE DOWN .. this weekend in the CTRA horse riding ring. and the Blues blast the following weekend. BUSY Busy Busy. We still have not found a home for the Alpacas. FREE to good HOME. Some of the sheep will go a new home too we are just keeping girls.... Cara and Wendy. Baby chicks have grown and will be laying eggs soon.

Last weekend was Trackshoes Kyle won 12 ribbons..and had fun in Victoria at UVIC. The Katimavic kids are leaving this Friday and we are going to miss them.

The farmers markets have started again and we harvest on Tuesdays and Fridays. Our garden is growing ... rapidly..weeds too . We bought a Dutch Hoe the fix that problem. Our tomatoes are getting tall and beans and swiss chard are gowing too. Flowers are blooming all around the farm. The new roses are doing good.

We moved Hutch the rabit over by our gardens. Kevin has moved off the farm and we will have new caretakers for the weekend work.. feeding animals and collecting eggs. The job in the kitchen is going good.

june @ the farm

the farm is a good place to work because there is lots to do @ the farm such as working in the kitchen and with the animals and working in the small engine shop and work in the store and i like to work to work in the green house.

Our garden....

we planted are garden lettuce and kale and carrots for the Rabbit and flowers and we are going to plant corn

Kitchen work

I like workimg in the Kitchen with Kori because she make me laugh and we have fun in the kitchen. We make cookies and cakes and i like to bake it is fun. I like to work with Robert he makes salad and some times he makes cakes with me and that is fun because Robert is my friend.

no ducklins

Ruthe thanks for the coment and hope to hear from you soon i realy miss you and i hope you come and visit soon and the duck egg did not hatch and that is sad but we do have 100 new baby chicks and they are so cute.

Daisy is not sitting on the egg any more. Are the egg going to hatch? Because if they dont that will be sad because that means no baby ducklings.

Duck eggs take about 28 days to hatch. we will wait a few more days to see

We have a new intern named Genevra and she is with us untill June and that is cool because she is a nice girl. last week we scraped the chicken coop and then two of the sheep got out and then when we opened the gate one more got out, then there were three out.

Mother Duck has been sitting on hre eggs For a few weeks now so there might be some new baby ducklins and we're happy to have new baby ducklins

baby sheep

we have five new baby sheep and they are so cute they were born two were morn on monday morning three were born on wednesday in the morning and afternoon. four girls and one boy.

we made sandwich with our seeds that we sproutted in a tray.
they were good!

we started making our garden journal and it was fun. we will use to write a but the garden and horticultural activities and crafts.

Hutch the Rabbit

I changed my schedule so i can work in the kitchen on Monday with Kori and Beth Scott Betty and then after break Robert and Nick join me in the kitchen.



Hutch is nice and soft and he likes to be cuddled but i do not like cleaning the cage because it is stinkey.