We finally got that grey weather done with. I hate it when I can't see the sun. We have had a little more sun and a little bit more moisture at nights. It is very pleasant. I could live with this. I'm hoping for some more time with no snow. I would like to enter winter gradually not like last year where it was slam, bang, take that, 10 inches of snow.
For those hoar frost believers, mark April 24, 2014 as a possibility for rain. This would be perfect as rain gets rid of the snow mold that we have in the spring. The old saying of April showers bring May flowers rings true. I am not a flower guy but I like green grass and the trees with new leaves. To the non-believers, I don't know what you look forward to unless you are just checking to see if Hult is wrong!
On the home front, the big fuel burners are parked, cultivators are in the back of machinery row. Chris has the shovels changed on the one we will use next spring. He has a new appreciation for the power and dangers of an impact wrench. Two fingers with Bandaids and a cut on the palm of his hand. Don't touch the head of the bolt when you are buzzing off the nuts. Put a wrench or hammerhead against them, but not any part of your hand. They have flat wrenches and ratchets but no impact wrenches in South Africa. Sometimes a new experience comes the hard way.
In my hills, my burned out combine was robbed of the only wheel left not burned. Some low life @$** stole the front left pickup wheel off the combine, the only one not burned. Some people!
The only thing running now is the rock picker tractor. Chris is going to give the fields a once over this fall, but I know it is hard to see them all. After the snow melts in spring there will be some more rocks show up, but at least they are thinned out.
We have some other little fixes we will do if the weather holds. But if not, then we will do them in the spring. I also have some fixing at my elevator, but that seems to be a never ending project.
Today Chris is putting up a wind break fence for Roland. He is very interested in the cattle and hopefully he can go to Regina with Roland and the other Speckle Parkers. That will be a good experience for him.
In political news, the senate is voting to suspend Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau without pay. Much protesting from Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau, but a move I think is much overdue. We will see what happens. They were definitely bad apples and I have no doubt they are guilty. The media has already tried and convicted them. The only problem I see here is they are being rushed to conviction without due process of law. Should they not be convicted in court of wrong doing before they are suspended from the Senate? Everyone in Canada should have the right of trial before convicted even if you are one of those rotten apple senators!
Quotes of the week from Mona Salzl:
"Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out!"
"The way the new Pope is rocking the boat, the Catholics will soon have to be like Jesus and learn to walk on water."
