wishing all a happy new year

This guy has got to go

We wish everyone a prosperous
2006


"HAPPY NEW YEAR"


Les and Mary Barker

Cousin Fred Faber

Fred said...

Took the picture Tuesday night.
After todays rain not much snow left, mostly green lawn.

 

 

Kinda quiet down this-a-way ---

 

 Not much going on down here, it did cool off a little, it was 52ºF here today.  I got this picture from Cousin Fred Faber in Branchton today, it is of their house and decorations for Christmas.

 

Wednesday can't help it AL -----

 

 

Yep, the weather here today was 64ºF. (18.88ºC).

Great day. 68ºF

 

Yep, The temperature here today was 68ºF (20ºC) another nice day.  Wish it would stay this way until the end of February.

 

The Harse clan

 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL. from the Harse clan .Just thought that I would send you  a picture of the grand kids, it is the first time we have had all of them together at one time for a picture Front row on floor,left is Caleb, Al's son, right is Clint, leeanne's son .. top row, from the left, James, Terri's son on Ethan's Lap, Al ,son, ... Shawna, lee'e daughter and Noah, Lou's son...Emily, Als daughter, and on her lap is Louise, Terri's daughter...................  And I think I sent a picture of all the family minus Al' kids at Lou's wedding,(if I didn't let me know), so now you should have a picture of all of us, minus the one that won't be here for about 7 more months.

  Like I said at the ffirst, We hope that you had a great Christnas with your family, and also have a better year next year.... Be talking to you soon, take care, Al and Squirt

 

 

Christmas Eve 2005

"Merry Christmas"

from: Les and Mary Barker & Santa

The night before the night before Christmas

Yep, it is what I said up there. Heh, Heh

Our temperature today hit 60ºF (15.5º C) a very nice day.  It is only going down to 46ºF tonight, but it is supposed to rain tomorrow and the high for Christmas day is only to be 50ºF.  The good part is no freezing temps at least for the next few days.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS"

From your Kuzns way down south in dixie.

 

 

Turned out to be a pretty nice day

 

Yep, it turned out to be a pretty nice day.  Temperature was close to 50ºF.  I went out and cut about half a cord of wood but I just left it on the trailor as I don't have anymore room in the wood shed.  I will probably dump it by a tree so I can use the trailor to get a couple more loads.

cool and cloudy today ----

 

Well, it is getting warmer.  44ºF today and going up to 54ºF tomorrow.  It was very cloudy today and that kept the temperature down, tomorrow it is supposed to be clear so the sun will warm us up just fine.

 

Well, here it is Tuesday night already --

 

 

Kountry Kuzn

Yep, here it is Tuesday evening already, Mary and I were out most of the day today delivering food baskets for my Masonic lodge, now that that is done I reckon it is time to get serious about our Christmas dinner preparations.

Mary made cookies and candy on Monday, and on Friday we will be making pies, (she lets me help) so I guess we are pretty well prepared for the big day.

This is what Mary really looks forward to, she loves it when all the family comes for Christmas dinner.  We should have about 30 people here for dinner.  Children, Grandchildren and Great Grand children.

Then the others will be popping in and out all day too. The weather here is a little better tonight, 31ºF (-1ºC) Tomorrow it will be back to the 50's and no freezing weather predicted at least not till after Christmas.

Anyway, I'll keep saying it    "Merry Christmas"

Kuzn Les  and Cousin Mary

Les@lesbarker.com
kountrykuzn.com
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Here is a picture from cousin Debbie over in Barrie, Ont. They got a lot of snow last night and today. Her son Jake is on one snow pile and his friend on the other.

It is right cold down here tonight, going down to 25ºF (-4ºC). It is supposed to start warming up tomorrow and they are predicting 60ºF (16ºC) for Christmas day.

I reckon I don't need to start making a sleigh.

It's turning colder ---

Yep, first I want to say "Happy Birthday " to Bethany Faber.  Her birthday was Friday but being a senior, I forgot to remember it. (Whew, that was a mouthful)  "Happy Birthday Bethany".

 

Well it is going to be real cold down here tonight and tomorrow night and it will only be in the low fortys tomorrow all day.  It is going down to 30ºF tonight and down to 25ºF tomorrow night.  But they are predicting  a temperature close to 60ºF for Christmas day.

 

 

Pretty dull day today ---

Yep, today was pretty dull, cloudy most all day, temperature around 50ºF.  Hope tomorrow is a little warmer.

 

It was a little cooler here today,

 

It was only about 51ºF here today with a westerly breeze, a nice day to work outside.  I went for a walk in the woods and did several other outdoor chores.  Drained the gas out of the lawnmowers and other machines that we won't be using for a couple of months.

Here is a picture of cousin Fred Faber with jolly old Santa.

Temps were mild

The temperature today was in the 50's, but it was a kinda soggy day.  It rained this morning then quit around 9 AM, and started raining again tonight .  All in all, I reckon it was a pretty good day.

 

 

Nice today too.

 

Yep, it was nice again today, I was able to get out another cord and a half of wood cut, split, hauled to the house  and into the wood shed.  We sure do love having a fire in the fireplace when it is cold outside.  Don't get me wrong, we have central heat and air, but we burn firewood about every day when it is cold outside.

 

Another great day.

 

Another great day today, 58ºF with a bright sun, so I went out and cut a load of firewood.  Not much going on, just getting for Christmas.

 

Today was real nice

 

Every day the good Lord gives me is good, but today was very nice.  The temperature today was 56ºF (13ºC) and tonight it will be 44ºF (7ºC).  It was a beautiful sunny day.   Here is a very nice e-card,  http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2700206623 Check it out.

 

Much better today. -----

 

Yep, the weather was much nicer today.  The temperature was back up to 54ºF (12ºC) and tonight it is 36ºF (2ºC).  It was a nice sunshiny day to, not like yesterday when it was cloudy all day.  We just got home and it is late so I am headed for the bed.  Don't forget Church tomorrow.

 

Well, it has got colder than all get out down here

 

 

 

Yep, the Temperature today was only in the 40's and tonight it is down to 24ºF

    That is colder than I like it by about 50 degrees.   It doesn't get cold like this until January normaly.  Winter down here usually starts in early January and ends about the middle of February, I don't know what happened this year.  I guess I will have to hope for a warm January or early spring.

Mary and I wish you all a

"Merry Christmas"

and I just found out that today is Fred Faber's Birthday and he is over 21,

Happy Birthday Fred

 

A cold, wet, dreary day

Yep, today is a cold, wet, dreary day down here.  The high for today is only 49ºF ( 9º C )  It is one of those days where you wish you could just stay in bed.  It is supposed to be nicer by the weekemd though.

 

 

Another nice day, but not as warm.

Yep, we had another nice day today but not as warm as I like it.  It is supposed to rain tomorrow though.  Have a good day everyone.

 

 

nice day but cool

 

We had a nice day

Yep, it was cool today with a north wind that would cut right through your clothes. It is going to freeze tonight, going down to 29ºF.

Yep, it is cooler today

 

Yep, it is cooler today, the temperature today only got to about 56ºF.  Tonight the temperature is down to 59ºF.  I reckon winter is closing in on us.

Date night and a nice day.

 

Nice day here today, I don't know how hi the temperature got, it was 66ºF at one point this afternoon, and right now it is 59ºF.  It has been sprinkling on and off all day though.  Tomorrow and next week it is supposed to be colder.

 

Wedding of Denise and Steve Downing

Cousin Marion Morris just sent me this picture of her Grandaughters (Denise Malyk) wedding to Steve Downing on August 23, 2003. The couple has been out of the country teaching English in Taipei, Taiwan and are returning for a family visit today. Marion said she would send me more pictures later.

and another nice day ------ Hi all

 

 Another nice day today, pretty cool, only about 60ºF and we will have a frost tonight, it is going down to 30ºF.  I is to be a little warmer for the rest of the week though.  If you have any news, family or otherwise, send it along and I will put it on the blog.

 

My goodness, I didn't put anything on the blog last night.

 

 Yep, well I went to bed last night and forgot to post anything. 

Happy birthday

to Cousin Debbie Jewell over in Barrie.(yesterday)

The weather here has been real nice, not to hot and not to cold. I may not post anything tomorrow night, I have to go to Memphis tomorrow and I am usualy worn plumb out after a trip up to the big city.  Yall take care and send me some news to post.

and yep, I got the roof put back on my shed.

The wind got to me a little last night.

 

We had winds gusting up to about 50 miles per hour last night, About 2:30 or 3 AM, the rain came through and the winds jumped from about 17 to 20 MPH  with gusts to about 50 mph.  I had the roof torn off of one of my sheds, but was able to salvage it and it will be repaired shortly.  We had almost 3 inches of rain last night.  The cold front came through tonight and it is only going to be about 55ºF tomorrow.

Have a great day.

 

Snow picture from cousin Fred Faber in Cambridge

Cousin Fred Faber in Cambridge sent this picture of how his backyard looked this morning. Hate to say it Fred but it is 59ºF (15ºC) here tonight.We had a very nice day today.

We had a few sprinkles tonight

We had a few sprinkles this evening, but the day today was very nice just a little breezy.  Cousin Fred Faber up in Cambridge says they had 4 more inches of snow last night but it will be warming up and melting again this week.  If we see any snow, it will probably be in late January or February, if we have snow, that is usualy when it comes.

 

 

Friday already ----

 

It was a little cooler here today so we went out and brought in another load of firewood, I want to get one more cord in before the weather turns cold, that will give us plenty of wood to spare for the fireplace.  I was out there the other day and 5 deer came down and stood looking at me, they were all does, but a few minutes after they left the buck came ambling through too.  He was a pretty nice looking deer, looked to be an 8 point.  They sure do look pretty as they stroll along.  Sometimes I just go out and sit there for a while watching the birds ,squirrels, deer and many other critters that live out there in my woods.  Sometimes a turkey will come by and lots of bobwhite quail,  even coons, possums and polecat are not uncommon.  My oldest boy Chuck, killed a bobcat this morning while he was deer hunting.  I don't let them hunt on my place, I enjoy watching the animals too much.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving today ---

We sure had a nice Thanksgiving today, the weather was perfect and we ended up with 16 of the family coming by and having dinner with us, we sure enjoyed it. I have to admit though, after dinner I sat down in my favorite chair and dozed for a while. Mary put on a superb dinner and the girls helped her with the dishes afterward. I think everyone left happy and with a full stomach.
I got another picture of the snow in Barrie this morning from cuzn Debbie, but I can't seem to find it they had more snow last night.

Great day on our Thanksgiving eve.

 

Well, the weather today was just lovely.  A smiling sun brought our temperature up to 66ºF here at our place.  Mary has the stuffing made, the potatoes and turnips are peeled and we will get up around 6 am to stuff the bird and put it in the oven.  Our family should start arriving around 10 am and dinner will be at 1 o'clock, yall come on and join us.  Happy Thanksgiving to all and don't forget to give thanks.

I was tired ---

Hello all, I was tired last night and went to bed early, completely forgot to leave a message here on the blog.  I usualy check my emails first thing in the morning, at noon, around 5pm and again before bedtime just in case anyone was wondering.  It was nice here yesterday, sun was shining but there was a mighty cool breeze.  When the wind blew, it felt like the cool air came right through the clothes.  Today is nicer.

 

Have a nice day.

 

 

Great weather --

We are back to 60's during the day and 40's at night. I like it a little warmer, but this is great for November. Have a great day everyone.

Still snowin on my Cuzns inCanada

 

Tonight was date night, but me a Mom stayed home.  I got this pic from cuzn Debbie (Bingelman) Jewel, she lives in Barrie, Ont.  Nothing but pretty weather here.  Gotta go to bed early tonight, church in the morning.

Nice day today -----

 

 We had a right pretty day today, the temperature was only about 65ºF (18ºC) but the sun was shining and there was a slight southerly breeze.  The temperature tonight is in the 40's and it is suposed to be warmer tomorrow with a chance of rain on Sunday.  No one has sent me any new info from Canada so I don't know if yall got more snow last night or not.

 

My Canadian Cuzns have SNOW -------

Yep, my Canadian Cuzns have snow.  I have a picture from cuzn Fred Faber in Cambridge and another from cuzn Debbie Bingelman Jewell in Barrie. You lucky folks will probably have a white Christmas.  Here they are  We did have our first frost last night, and we will have our second one tonight.

 

 

First Frost? maybe

 

Tonight we are supposed to have our first frost for this season but, it is 10:30pm and the temperature is still at the 42ºF so I don't know if it will be a frost.  Just got home after a long day in Memphis and am pretty tired so I am going to shut it down and go to bed.

WOW, big day today --- Tornadoes and lots of rain.

 

 We had some tornadoes around us, but the closest that did damage was about 40 miles away.  One went through a field about a mile from here, turned over a truck and a trailer filled with cotton, but not any real damage.  We had 1 and 1/2 inch of rain in about a 2 hour span and gusting winds at 30 to 40 miles per hour all day long. 

This morning it was warm and muggy, at 4 pm the temperature was 84ºF,   The temperarure right now at 11PM is 42ºF, a 42 degree drop.  The winds were out of the south all day, but after the front came through it switched and is now coming out of the North. Brrrrrrrr

 

Jeanne and Freds Grandchildren & us

Hi Yall, well we had a right nice rain last night, we got about 1/2 inch between 2AM and 6AM this morning. Here is a picture taken when we were up for the family re-union, this is Jeanne and Fred Faber's grandchildren, Jordan and Cameron Faber. Scott sent it to me today.

No rain yet --hopefuly it will rain tonight.

Just a lovely Saturday here, bought a bunch of Christmas stuff at the auction tonight.  I finished up our wood rack today, it is 6 ft. high, 10 ft long and holds 4 and 1/2 cords of firewood.   That will easily carry us through the winter with some left over for next year.  Now all I have to do is finish cutting the wood to put in it.  I have about 3 and 1/2 cords cut and split so only about one cord to go.  If it doesn't rain to much tonight and tomorrow I will probably finish that up on Monday or Tuesday.  Got to go to bed now so I won't sleep late, I like eating breakfast before going to church in the morning.

 

 

Summer visit and Mary and Les where having a blast in Southampton.

From Cuzn Connie Barker

 

 Summer visit and Mary and Les were having a blast in Southampton.
Some pictures for you all to enjoy
 Rick Les Mary Mary les  picture of Chantry Island as  seen by boat
We had a wonderful time and a great visit
See you all soon
Love Connie

Another week gone by

 

Another week just about gone, 72ºF here today and about 45ºF tonight.

Got a note from Cuzn Connie it is posted above with the pics.

 

Sure did get cooler.

 

Yep, now they are saying we might have our first frost tonight.  It was 72ºF here today but it is only 42ºF out there right now, what a difference a day makes.

 

COOLER WEATHER

 

Well it cooled off a little today, down to 81ºF and going down to 60 tonight, but the hi for thursday is only going to be 68ºF and Thursday night it may dip into the 40's, Brrrrrr.

 

This is tuesday

I reckon I put yesterdays news in so late that it got todays date, anyway, we broke the weather record again today.  86ºF today, that broke the record for the warmest November 8 on record and the warmest day ever recorded in the month of November.  Tomorrow it is only supposed to be 82ºF.

 

 

We broke a record

Well, today we broke the record on temperature in the month of November.  It was 84ºF(29ºC) they are saying we will break it again tomorrow with a temperature of 86ºF(30ºC).  Yep, the weather sure has been nice.  I hope it cools off a little before Thanksgiving wich is the 24th of November this year.

 

Sunday

Real pretty day here today, temp 76ºF(24ºC) It is supposed to be around 61ºF(16ºC) tonight.  Mostly a claer day with a few clouds scooting by.  Had a rain shower about 4 AM, it lasted about 15 minutes amd it was completely clear by daylight, so no problems getting to church.

 

 

Home from the auction --

Mary works at the auction Barn of Saturday nights, I go to watch the auction and I always buy something.  I like bidding on stuff and Mary keeps telling me no.  Lots of times I just bid on stuff to see her response.  Heh, heh It's neat when she shakes her fist at me.  I didn't spend much but had a good time.

 

 

another great day.

A little windy today but just a real great day.  Got a little firewood cut so when it gets cool enough to light a fire Mary and I can toast our toes in front of the fireplace.  Still no rain, but we may get some tomorrow afternoon and evening.

 

 

Everything going well ---

 

 Evert thing is going quite well down this-a-way.  Nothing to report from yesterday.  Now I am going out to cut some firewood, it is bound to get cool enough for a fire one of these days.  The weatherman says that todays temp is to be 76ºF.

 

Les and Connie Krestel's little boy "Dustin"

Here are a couple of pictures of cousin Leslie and Connie Krestel's little boy out in Washington state. His name is Dustin, and I understand that he just had a birthday. Looks like he might be a pretty good hand full. Hello Les and Connie.

visit cancelled

Just heard from Cousin Fred Faber, they have called off the trip as Aunt Helen couldn't come at this time.  Maybe they can reschedule it. 

 

 

Let's get this blog moving.

This is cousin Mary, Come on and join in, lets get this blog moving. This is a picture of Alex, he is all dressed up as spiderman and is a trick or treatin great grand child of ours. Alex was one of our trick or treaters on Halloween.

visit with Canadian Aunts and Cousins ---

 

I didn't post anything yesterday as I didn't have any new items.

Great news

, 

Fred and Jeanne Faber, are bringing Aunt Helen and Aunt Margaret to visit with us next week.  We are warming up the cribbage board and looking forward to a wonderful visit.

I will keep yall posted.

Happy Haloween

Yesterday we turned our clocks back an hour, went to Church and then just sat around the house visiting with folks all day. . 

Today it was just a glorious day and we did a lot of yard work  just enjoying the great weather.  

It may rain tonight, sure hope so as we need the rain. 
Here it is 9 o'clock and we have only had 5 or 6 trick or treaters.  They don't come out here to the country much.

 

Saturday ------

Little on the cool side today, down in the 60's but other than that very nice. Here is a picture of Mary and I after we finished in the woods yesterday.
I reckon we will have to turn the clock back an hour tonight too. ----- Kuzn Les

Wood cutting day today

Well, today was another right pretty day and we decided to cut a little firewood.
I used to cut 3 cords of wood in about 4 hours without straining but now 1 cord a day is all I want. The weather was beatiful and it was real nice working in the woods. It took about 3 hours to get a cord cut, split and hauled to the house. A vine caught Mary and scratched her lip a little.

nother nice day

 

Another nice day today, but we sure could use some rain.  If it don't rain tomorrow I am going to have to cut firewood for when it gets cold.  It won't be long now till we will have to turn on the heat.     

Kuzn Les                        

 

Picture perfect day

 

Picture perfect day down here today.  Lots of sunshine, temperature about 74ºF low tonight 54ºF.  Come on yall, kuzn Connie Barker has signed in and Al has sent us his sons wedding party picture, surely there is more that my Canadian cuzns would like to talk about.  Lets go ----------------  Kuzn Les

 

Harse Family Wedding

Hi everyone,

This picture was taken at our youngest son's wedding on the 17th of september /05 To give you a who's who, I will start with the back row from the left........ Jim Hall and wife, Terri Harse/Hall, Louis Harse, Alan Harse, Al Harse sr., Doug Smith, Leeanne Harse/Smith Clint Smith, and Shawna Smith. Front row, Jaime Miller/Harse and Noah Harse(Lou and Jaime's son), Louise and James Hall(Terri's), Marilynn(grama Squirt)........ There you go, Missing is Alan's wife Carrol and son' s Ethan, Caleb , and daughter Emily,as it was her daughters wedding on the same day as Lou's, and about 20 miles apart, and she had a hard time splitting her self for both weddings ..... (P/S) When I get some good pictures of Al's kids and wife I will forward them too.......Al and Squirt...................

Nice day today

 

Nice day here today, kinda cloudy hi around 70ºF, low about 50.

 

SNOW already -- WOW

 

Just got a note from cuzn Fred Faber over in Cambridge, they ran into some wet snow last night on their way home from Toronto.

 

Hi Al

 

Hi Al, hope you and Squirt made it to the page.

Sunday Oct.23

Here it is Sunday already, it is cool down here, only about 66ºF today. What is going on up in your kneck-o-the-woods.

Getting cold down south

Temp was down to 82ºF today. going down into the 50's tonight. Cuzn Fred Faber in Cambridge says they have had a couple of nights with frost on the punkin already.

October 20.2005

Hello all,
Yesterday we broke the Hi temp for Oct. 19 at 89ºF, (39ºC) today it only got up to 87ºF, (31ºC).

Born in Canada, raised in Tennessee

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