Merry Christmas from me, Johanna Antonia Lamberta Zomers.

Tom and Martien and Bert.

Opa, Carter, Kirk and Tony.

another one of the boys.

Martien's kids. Michelle, Katie and Steven.

Bert's wife Donna and son Benji.

Here's Shelby (Chris's daughter) with Carter Anthony Lambert Zomers. (Tony's grandson).

Tony's wife Carolyn and Bert's wife Donna.

Oma with her newest great grandchild, Wyatt Foden. He was only a little more than 5 pounds when he was born.

Here's Shelby (Chris's daughter) with Carter Anthony Lambert Zomers. (Tony's grandson).

Mary and Tracy (Bert's daughter).

Martien is pouring a stiff drink. Earlier in the day he hit his head on the rafters in his new house while pouring insulation in the attic and almost knocked himself out. Might as well drink some rye, he'll have a headache for the next few days anyway.



Here's Mary, Clint, Jesse and Holly with Wyatt Joseph Wayne Foden.

Tony, Oma and Opa.

Merry Christmas 2007

Wej waaren allemaal op de boederij vuur Christmas avond. Oma en Opa and 33 anders...van Wyatt Foden (gebooren Dec 18 to Jesse and Holly...onze Mary is now ook Oma..and Carter van Kirk en Candace and onze familie allemaal.

These deer will not be wasted as everyone will have venison steaks and sausage and chops.

This is truly eating organically and locally!

First day of the season

They had good luck on the first morning of the hunt.

These deer will hang for four or five days until Bert and Benji butcher them and they are distributed to everyone's freezers.

Hunting season

Hunting season once again and the lads in the Grattan Boys Camp have been very successful with four deer including a good sized buck on the first morning of the hunt. Here is Willy Kelly, Bert and Benji and their dogs making their way back to the camp.

Colleen and Micheal Hubers at Colleen's 40th birthday party. Colleen and Micheal are unofficial members of the Zomers family. Their father Tony Hubers and their mother Esther are our oldest family friends in Canada. Tony Hubers was Dutch and Esther is Polish from Wilno.

chris looking very suspicious.

Here is Henrietta raising a glass to toast the family.

Here is Tony with Oma and Opa. We are all waiting for dinner to be ready. Behind them you can see the beds that the hunters sleep in.

Here sein the vier generations of Zomers...Opa, Tony, Kirk and Carter.

The entire family was here in the camp except for Clint and Chance and Donnie.

It was the usual noisy hullaballoo with all of us talking at once.

Tony and Martien discuss the results of Martien's cattle sale which took place on Thanksgiving Saturday at the Cobden Sales Barn.

Martien and Barb sold all their herd of full French Charolais cattle. Buyers came from Alberta and other distant places because Martien's cattle are a specialized breed.

Here we are at the hunt camp on Thanksgiving Monday Oct 8 for dinner. Oma and Opa are enjoying a turkey dinner.

Wej sein allemaal in het camp waar onze jongen gaan jaagen.

We had music in the cafe on Sept 7, which also happened to be Tom's fifty-seventh birthday. Dennis Delorme of Prairie Oyster and Cris Cuddy played and we had lots of people for dinner and it was a lively fun-filled evening.

It has been a very busy summer with lots of tourists and shoppers and diners and we have been working non-stop since the May long weekend.

Here's Martien and Tom at the house site on Tom's first day off work at our inn since May. He was going to play golf and we decided to drive up and see the new house.

Martien's house will be very modern with in-floor radiant heating and all on one floor. It looks out over the second hole on the golf course which is just outside of Eganville.

Meanwhile, at the golf course, Martien is building his new house, trying to get the walls and the roof up before the weather gets too cold.

Martien's daughter has been doing well in different golf tournaments, and so we are hoping she might be able to get a golf scholarship to a university in a warm place..like California or Texas.

Here is Candace with the new baby. He is about half an hour old in this photo. They have a new birthing room at the Pembroke hospital so Candace's mother and Carolyn and other family members were able to be present. It was a beautiful day and because Opa was downstairs, there were lots of us at the hospital to keep them both company.

a new Zomers to add to the family

At six oclock on Sept 18, Carter Lambert Zomers was born. Here is his father Kirk Zomers. We now have four generations of Zomers....Harry Zomers, Tony Zomers, Kirk Zomers and Carter Zomers.

Bert and Oma in the hospital

Oma and Bert went to the hospital with Opa in the morning and we spent the day waiting for some medical tests. Chris and Jason arrived and Tony and Carolyn and Kirk and me, Joanne, and so we all sat around in Opa's room and made a lot of Zomers type noise and clutter and the usual stuff.

Opa in het ziekenhuis

Opa wasn't feeling well so we decided to take him to the hospital for a check up. It was nothing serious but he was feeling dizzy and we thought we should make sure there was nothing wrong.

It was the same day that Candace who lives with Tony's son Kirk was in the hospital to have her second baby...so we visited Opa and then went to see Candace upstairs in the maternity ward.

More wedding photos

Here is Tony having the first dance with Diana at the reception.

Here is Tony having the first dance with Diana at the reception

Here is Mary and Oma and Opa watching the bride and groom leave the church

The wedding itself was lovely in St. James church in Eganville. Here is Tony entering the church with Diana.

Oma and Opa at the wedding

Oma and Opa were all dressed up in their new wedding clothes and enjoying the festivities.

this is Diana...Tony and Carolyn's only daughter on her wedding day. It was a beautiful wedding...perfect weather with a cool breeze after days of plus 30 heat...lovely music in the church with Denise Leahy of the Leahy family singing, a delicious dinner by Ulrich's Catering and then lots of music and dancing in the candlelit tent overlooking the water.

Aug 4: The wedding of Tony's daughter Diana to Ray. A beautiful warm evening for the reception in the tent at Tony and Carolyn's house on the water in Lake Dore.

more hay ready to be unloaded into the barn.

Opa on the job during the haying.

No, Opa didn't arrive in this car. This is Tony's Corvette which he drove to Wilno one evening to have some supper at our restaurant while Caroline and Diana continue to shop for the wedding. Diana is getting married on Aug 4 with a big reception planned at Tony's house on Lake Dore. We'll be putting pictures here later.