Eaton's Christmas Catalogue 1975

     This brings back memories - my brother Kerras found it on his travels.

The Garden is near done

    Here's a few photos from around the yard and the garden with the lovely sunflowers.

     The garden was great this year!  The potatoes grew fast - the beans, cucumber, tomatoes and strawberry's were plentiful.  Lots of pickling this Fall - mustard pickles; green tomato chow chow; tomatoe relish; bread & butter pickles, etc.

In mid summer we planted these Giant Sunflower - they grew fast!!!

 Below:  we planted 5 blue spruce last summer.

 Below: we also planted a row of spruce trees.

The Barns and Garage look good!

 The house from a different view - the sky sure looks like Fall!

Painting the Barn

     We painted the barn last weekend - completing our summer project to repair, replace and paint the south side of the old barn.  Nice to have the barn complete!!

     Those helping:  Carter, Kerras, Shirley, Diane, Kenny, Jody, Darcie and Mom cooking supper :-D)  Oh yes, Ted stopped in to help too.

     The large false door looks great!!!  Many asked why we put back in the large door  - its false - applied to the barn wall.

The Orchard

     Here's a few photos of the fruit on the orchard trees - we have MacIntosh apples; plums and pears in abundance!

Summer 2012

     The homestead looks great this summer even though we've had very little rain - check out the recent photos below.

 The Petunia's have been well cared - lots of dead-heading and watering!!!

     Below: we used the old cream separator in the early 1960's to separate the cream from the milk on the farm - today it makes a great flower pot!

 We'll be painting the barn as soon as the weather cools a bit.

Picnics at the Homestead

     In on August 8th, 2009 we hosted a church-style picnic at the Jeffery Homestead as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Anglican Parish of Alberton-O'Leary.  Here's some photos from that event where we had about 75 people in attendance.

Below: we had an old-fashioned Cake Auction.

 We were sponsored in part by King Cole Tea from Barbor Foods in Sussex, NB.