"Great Is Thy Faithfulness O Lord My God"

We are thankful for God's faithfulness everyday.

On Aug. 24, 2008 we celebrated our 40th. wedding anniversary.

Our children planned and worked and gave us a beautiful party to celebrate.

Helmut's living siblings with respective spouses and Jean's sister were the guests as well as Cammie's parents.

We enjoyed a great time of visiting with one another and eating the great food that the kids had put together.

Ruth introduced the little program with greetings.

T. our grandson provided a solo - "Jesus Loves Me" accompanied by Ruth with the guitar. T. also strummed on the guitar.

Ruth started off some remarks about our example over the years based on Phil. 2:3 "in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves" using the example of how even though Helmut is a runner he would take time to walk slowly with me because of his love for me. (It is interesting the things that the kids notice in the family.)
Others continued with some remembrances from the past.
then Helmut made a few remarks about the rope with the double knot.
We sang "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" and a couple of hymns in German.

Thank you family for making such a lovely day for us to remember.

For some reason I've got the pictures in the opposite direction of the comments- maybe one day I'll have this blogging all figured out.

Gone Fishing - Sept. 13, 2008

Today we went on an excursion to Seven Sisters Hydro Dam which is about an hour and a half east of Winnipeg and is located on the Winnipeg River. It was one of the earlier dams built for hydro power in the province.

John & Amy were our guests on this outing and were the fishing "experts" with the equipment. Helmut had never been fishing before in his life and my experience consists of going with Dad when I was 11 or 12 years old and ending up as the catch of the day ( another story).

The first order of the afternoon was to investigate the top of the dam and plan for the best location to fish. Then we had to stop to have our picnic lunch - the area does not afford tables so we put up our lawn chairs near the parking area, spread our table cloth on the ground and proceeded to make our sandwiches etc. It was chilly and windy.

After lunch week took the equipment up to the top of the dam and located a place on the deep side where John thought there might be a chance to fish. The three of them set up the fishing poles and lines and I tried to watch but Abby was restless so the two of us went for a walk around the area and when she was nice and tired we went back to the fishing area and I did some crocheting ( I went prepared).

Helmut caught the only fish that our party took in (or anyone else that we met on the dam). It was his very first fish of a life time.

About 4:30 pm we packed up for the drive home.

The last pic is Helmut cleaning the fish - also a first. We ate it fried for supper. it was a pickerel - very tasty.

"Aliens" and Serious Work

The other evening we were invaded by some "strange" characters. This is a "macho" form of dress-up particularly for boys.







After all the equipment was tried out the serious work began - however, you see it is hard to work in all that equipment so the worker is down to the bare essentials.

Trip with Pat continued

More pictures of our two days at Dyck's cabin at Spruce Bay and our outing to Hecla Island. the sea gulls were blocking the road near the old village of Hecla where the first Icelandic settlers lived. the little barn swallows were the first wild life that we observed. Except for the bugs that Pat tried to get rid of off the porch of the cabin.

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Enjoy the pictures from Hecla Island Prov. park I'll write more the next time. We are preparing for anothe canoe excursion.

Spruce Woods Prov. Park

Some of our friends were camped at Spruce Woods prov. Park so one day we drove out there to visit them, see the park and take a canoe trip. Our first intention was to canoe on the Assinoboine River which follows through the park. When we arrived at the friend's camp site it was very hot so we decided to do a little sight seeing with them and save the canoe trip for the evening when it would be a little cooler. We went to A overlook place where you can see where the ferry used to cross the river in years gone by. They also told us that the current in the river is about 4 miles per hour which seemed a little fast for out style of canoeing so they took us to Marsh lake in the park where we canoed in the evening - saw this bird - we think it was a Merganzer and two beaver - you can just see their heads in my picture.