Craft Night-Makin' pasta!

Judit, Elsie, Zsuzsi, Julie

Tuesday, Feb. 2nd - we decided to make some pasta for craft night. It was alot of fun!! We even dorned the aprons.

crazy cousins, Elsie, Judit
sample


Elsie, Judit, Julie, Kati

The Gate

Our furry family

New additions

Marcipan (kitty) and Dézi (puli puppy)

Happy Anniversary! #12

Happy Birthday Elsie!

From our garden, to you...Happy Birthday!

RANDOM SPRING

Spring in the country is the best.  We were sitting by the pond one afternoon, sipping rye & coke bird-watching!  So peaceful!

Is spring here yet?

Another pond discovery...tiger salamander.  I saw it walking across the snow at the east end of the pond, heading towards the water -- very cool.  It was at least 7 inches long.  

The geese arrived a couple of weeks ago and have been marking their territory; the ducks are starting to move in now.  

Today, I heard the FROGS for the first time.  

And our main sump pump is starting to work.  

Pubi left us our first mouse (trophy) head of the season.

Surely spring is around the corner.

Happy Easter-Kellemes Húsvéti Ünnepeket Kívánunk

It's My Birthday!

This has been a great weekend filled with friends (Friday dinner with Gyula & Judit), family (Saturday dinner with Attila, Barb, Krissy & Kati), friend & family (Sunday lunch with Julie, Steve, Vincent & Eve and Elsie), and family (Sunday lunch with my in-laws Eva & Gyuri).  Thanks everyone for spending this weekend with us.  

KUVASZ!

momma (her name is Twenty Two) with her 12 puppies on day 5

one of these little dudes will be ours-here they are 3 weeks

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

& HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket és boldog új évet kivánunk!

Love Attila & Zsuzsa
(and Tisza & Pubi)

Other creatures that have frequented us...

Evidence of deer eating the bark off the trees

Woodpecker - maybe??

I always knew the pond had more than just ducks and frogs in it.  We have MUSKRAT!!  

Hungarian Partridge (I call them "The Partridge Family")

Owl's not-so-happy-ending, happy ending.

"Northern Hawk Owl"

The other morning as Attila and I were wiping the csippa (sleep) from ours eyes, we heard a loud bang!  We instantly new something had hit our giant window above the front door.  The photo on the left is what we found laying on our front step.   This was no small owl...as you can see from Attila's CSI photo, the owl was 14 inches.  Very sad!

  

I went to work that morning and told my boss what just happened.  He said "bring it in, I will take it to my boys' school for show and tell!  They've been learning about owl's recently".   To make a long story short, the school had a contest on who could correctly identify the owl.  One of the grade 6 students identified it as a "NORTHERN HAWK OWL" (pictured on the right) They've been keeping it in the freezer for future stuffing.  The owl will be stuffed and on display in the school!!   Happy ending...the owl has been donated to science! 

Our acreage experiences continue...

Banff weekend!

So far, we've had a great time-we've been here about 5 hours. We have a comfortable chalet. We're just about to sit down to eat "fried cheese & fried mushrooms". Hmmm. Going for a walk now.

59 more days til MADONNA!!!

Tomorrow, Madonna - Sticky & Sweet concert in London.

63 DAYS TIL MADONNA

Opening Night of Sticky & Sweet Tour - Cardiff

1935-2004

Today would have been his birthday.
R.I.P. Apu

Annual Draskoczy Bonfire & Party!

Today is party day and I am frantically getting ready. Attila is at Prince's Island with Dűvő for the Calgary Folk Music Fesitval. It's great that they could be here once again to add color to our party.

random pictures from lately

Pubi the Hitman









ladies in Millarville








ducklings 8

Friday of the long , long weekend

We're moving forward with our projects.  

Garage has been taped, mudded, sanded and as of yesterday, painted!  Today we're cleaning up the dust and other garbage before we layout the plan for the cabinets and other organizer stuff.

Landscaping is moving along really nice.  The 30 poplars are in along either side of the driveway.  Fiddler's Green is here working on putting in the 3 bunches off our back deck.  Looks great!  The birds are loving it too.