Keeping up with The Abbates

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Cuba


There was a great show on CBC tonight. I wish I had recorded it. It was a David Suzuki "The Nature of Things" special on Cuba. To make a long story short, he described how Cuba has basically turned to environmental methods to produce it's own food supply due to the fact that there were no other options as machinery and chemicals were unavailable because of the fall of the Soviet Union. There's a lot more to it but that's the short version. It pretty much confirmed my ideas that a self-sufficent utopia is actually possible - gotta run and start planning my commune!!

Thursday, July 27, 2006

MallyBib "photo shoot"

The kids were so well behaved. It was a nice evening at Fishtrap Creek park.

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Mission Folk Festival



We went the folk festival last night around 7:30pm. It was so hot, thank goodness for the water misters. We cooled off under those, bought some popcicles and wandered around for awhile. It was great. Good music, nice people - a very relaxing evening. When we got home Joseph and I had a water fight in the back yard - good way to cool us off for the night.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Johnson Lake Resort


Just found this website "Johnson Lake Resort". The water looks amazing. Maybe we'll check it out this summer.

Friday, July 14, 2006

The boys....


at our friends BBQ. Mike finished baseball last weekend so after the last game we all got together at Ron and Nicoles house for a BBQ. The boys and Melia all had fun playing in the yard and Joseph absolutely LOVED Kylers John Deere tractor.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Happy Birthday Mom!!


Saturday, July 01, 2006

Happy Canada Day!!




Lookin' pretty good for 139 years old.....