This is Tilly. For those of you who aren't interested in driving a big horse, this is more fun than a ferrari sports car. Tilly lives to drive, and will go as far and as fast as you will let her. They come in small packages, but they think they are really big horses, and they are so easy to travel with. So there is no excuse that you can't drive. Get yourself a sports car pony and have a great time.

Winter visitor

Thought you might like to see one of our winter visitors this morning. He obviously found a mouse in the carriage house. If you look closely you can see the little mouse tail hanging down by his feet. We're not sure what he is. He is about 9 inches from head to tail. Haven't heard his call. He thinks the carriage house is quite a good place to be, as there is chicken feed and mice. We would love for him to stay, to help keep the mice away.

Exciting times

Well, colder today, and thought I would share some of the happenings here at Sisters Creek over this winter. Technically it isn't winter yet, but at -10 C, let me tell you, it's winter. So work is going on inside now. Fred is shaping the timbers for the upstairs master suite. This is quite the undertaking. Posts and beams, gunstock braces, all need to be cut and treated. They are almost finished now, the plan is to put up the main posts and beams down the centre of the room on Saturday. Thought you might like to see what they looked like before they were put in place. It will be cold on Saturday, but the beam work shouldn't be too long. I guess we'll see.

Lots of new things happening

Well, Christmas is coming, and with it the prospects of sleigh rides on Christmas Eve. We are biting our fingernails, because the weather is very mild and yesterday and today the snow is melting. Everyone who is coming is so excited about the sleigh rides, so I hope we will be able to meet their expectations, if not, maybe carriage rides, we will see.

Working on some art, or trying to, and thinking about the garden in the spring and putting up a small hoop house to extend our seasons, we will see. Thinking about it doesn't really take a lot of effort, but actually doing it is something else. Eliot Coleman's books and ideas about year round gardening really look interesting. Also the zero mile diet books from Victoria. We are putting on an agricultural gardening workshop on January 22nd in Quesnel at the College to put forth some of these ideas.

Our newest nephew was born on December 10th, in Saskatoon to Carey and Josh. Congratulations little one. Welcome to the world.