The harvest was mostly completed by the end of September. October brought in a few rain showers to delay some of the later fields to be harvest. Fall field work is now taking place, spraying chemicals in preparation for spring seeding. Some fields with rocks are being picked. Many of the sloughs are dried up, but some areas were overgrown with bull rushes, reeds and cattails. They are being cut down and areas broken up to farm.
Sympathy goes out to the Parkinson-Schaefer families on the recent passing of Bill Schaefer of Saskatoon. Bill married Jeanine Parkinson. They had one daughter, Lorrraine. Bill was formerly from the Ruddell area.
Get will wishes go out to Stanley Mills after some recent surgery and a spell with pneumonia in Battlefords Union Hospital.
The fall cattle roundup has taken place at the Lizard Lake Community pasture. Cattle have been kept longer this season due to the nice long fall we have been having.
The RM of Glenside pest control officer has been making his last fall checks for rodents in local farmyards, leaving some bait whenever needed.
Our lovely long fall is starting to come to an end. A sudden, quick moving snow storm went through the area and left the ground white for a short time. It soon all melted away. It was just a taste of what is to come soon. The high winds have whipped the lovely coloured leaves off the trees and onto the ground.
Most of the birds have left for warmer climates. The flocks of geese and ducks were the last to go. Our days and nights are getting much colder, freezing the sloughs and rive rice.
I was sorry to have missed the News-Optimist luncheon in October with Becky Doig in charge. My husband was in the hospital at that time. Many thanks for the invitation. I have been to them in the past and really did enjoy meeting all the other district correspondents. There are not too many of us left. It is sad to see all the country news fading out so fast. Each year I seem to have less and less to report and there are not many activities going on anymore. When something does happen or visitors come on one wants to report. Many distant people get the local paper and look forward to reading about what's happening back home.
Stanley and Dorothy Mills were recent visitors at the home of John and Arlene Rowlands and family of rural Battleford.
It was a wonderful fall evening for Halloween this year. Many years there is a lot of ice and snow to battle through. Halloween went over quietly here as there were no callers. They seem to have gone to the city for their treats the past couple of years. There are fewer and fewer young ones in our area.
