Corn festival preperations

It's that time of year once again. Time to prepare our annual(in it's second year), corn festival. We've learned from our mistakes of last year, so we're a little more prepared this time around.
We pulled out this old outhouse from behind our shed. We figure it's the original outhouse, 1916. It's the cutest thing ever! It used to be a two seater, but we're converting it to a real, working toilet. There was a drawer that came out the back, so you could get rid of the waste, and we found an old vodka, some other liquor and beer bottle. Somebody was hiding their drinking.
DH got his tools out, and got it to stand up straight on it's own, and got everything ready to install the toilet. But doesn't DD#1 tell her little friends to do their business in the whole!!!!! It's not installed yet!!!!! lol, kids!
I finally got to painting the inside, with DH telling me it's a water based paint , so it washes off your hand with water. IT DOESN'T!
Now both hands are almost completely covered with white paint. Thank you DH!

......fresh from the farm

Coincidence or meant to be?

It just seems like life is full of coincidences, or you can believe in "meant to be!" if you prefer. I've known my husband since I was 13 years old. He was my brother's roommate, and I was his then almost 2 year old daughter's occasional babysitter. We lost contact a few years later, never even crossed paths even though we always lived less than 10km from each other.
We found each other again, 15 years later, over 1000kms away, amonst tens of thousands of people. Our tents were set up right next to each other.
Coincidence or meant to be?
We fell in love, and have been ever since.
In 2005, on a Sunday afternoon, our next door neighbor informed us that his sister wanted to buy our house, which wasn't even for sale. Half an hour later, our house is sold, and we are moving out in less than two weeks.
Coincidence or meant to be?
A friend puts us in contact with some people that own property, not for sale, but thinking about selling. We clicked, signed some papers, and took ownership of our dream property on September first, 2006.
Coincidence, or meant to be?
The same day we are moving in, I find out I am now pregnant we DD #2.
Coincidence, or meant to be?
I now believe in meant to be, or better known as "faith", do you?


.....fresh from the farm