Winter 2015

     We were having not much snow until a couple of weeks ago - today is the fifth storm in two weeks!  Here's a few photos from around the homestead - lots of snow!!

Homestead Floor Plans updated

Happy New Year!

     Here's a photo I took nine years ago today from the Homestead verandah of the sun rise over the neighbours house across the road.  It's amazing - looks like the house is on fire.

PEI Marketing Videos

north cape pei - photo cf: pei tourism

great tourism videos Hiero Marketing

facts in video-
4 hours to drive tip tp tip
1100 kmn coastline
576 fairways on the island
over 1000 muscians call pei home everyday

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=621477911199078


https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=969649249715274&set=vb.215310701815803&type=2&theater



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Harvesting of the Irish Moss near Tignish, Prince Edward Island. Photo taken by reader Donna Butler, August 2014.

Coastal Stories - North Cape Coastal Drive's

     Here's the video that features our brother Kerras and his folk art - just up the road from the Homestead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yI5yh8GMAI

     "Kerras Jeffery operates a folk art gallery from his backyard.  He has to be creative to drup up business in his tiny community of Lauretta, P.E.I."

Coastal Stories - North Cape Coastal Drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MenCLS5ugqI&index=1&list=UUnWdJ7F-WgKaNDwISaNXPFA

November 1st

     Today is my brother Robert's 52nd birthday - he's 11 months and 24 days younger than me - so for the next three weeks we're the same age.  I'm the oldest, of seven, Robert was next then, Randy, Kerras, Diane, Kenny and Darlene.  We moved in to the homestead just after Christmas 1962 when Uncle David became ill and died on January 28, 1963.
     Below is a photo of Robert, me and Randy taken at the homestead in the summer of 1965 - we're standing between the house and the barn and outbuildings.  We used the building behind on the left as a woodhouse.  When the homestead was greatly renovated in 1921 Uncle David and Aunt Bessie moved in this old building - we could see where the stove pipe went through the ridge of the building - Dad tore down the building in 1987 when they expanded the barn.

     When the 1864 homestead was renovated in 1921 the side kitchen wing was added along with the large verandah - the main house had the stairs reversed and a double-parlour along the whole south side of the house was created - behind the stairs hall was a new small dining room.

     Below is a photo of me with Aunt Bessie on the homestead verandah - the photo was taken in 1962.  In 1972 the verandah was removed as it was old and rotten - the house was  renovated again by my parents to accommodate our family of nine.

     Aunt Bessie sold the homestead to my parents following Uncle David's death in 1963 - she moved to nearby Alberton and passed away in a Summerside nursing home in 1972.