This weekend the girls played basketball all Saturday and then on Sunday, 12th of Feb, we went out to the Nawrot's (James, Lori, Jess, Nicole & Thomas) farm for a weiner roast and to shoot some guns! This was great fun! Matilda kept her trophy, a bullet hole ridden can of coke.
James Nawrot took us tracking through his bushland, where we saw rabbit, deer, coyote and moose tracks. Matilda found some lovely bush chocolate almonds (moose poo).
We didn't get to see any wildlife - maybe they're scared of guns...
James Nawrot took us tracking through his bushland, where we saw rabbit, deer, coyote and moose tracks. Matilda found some lovely bush chocolate almonds (moose poo).
We didn't get to see any wildlife - maybe they're scared of guns...
Feeding the Calves
James Nawrot feeds his calves a mix of silage and rolled oats. He makes the silage by growing crop - they harvest it all chopped up into the back of a tipper truck. Then they just dump it in a pit, cover it with plastic for a couple of years and the silage ferments. After that they mix it with oats grown and rolled on the farm. Yum, it smelt delicious. Seriously - like hay and molasses. No wonder his cows are so fat! Now that I'm writing this, I realise I have a lot more questions. It seems much easier than making hay. Eh! |
James showed us a dead aspen tree that had been attacked by a wood pecker. Aspen is another name for white poplar trees. The Cree and Black Foot tribes used the white dust from the trunks of the aspen as an insect repellent. The moose use the trees to sractch the itchy felt from their antlers. The taller the scratch marks the bigger the moose!
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Canadians have never heard of a suasage sizzle. They like to cook their hotogs over a fire until they are good and crisp. They are much better roasted than boiled! A weiner on a stick cooked over a fire is delicious and seems mandatory for every activity.
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