Another week of beautiful spring weather. I could stand a lot of this. I have some rain marked, but since my dates earlier in the month did give more than a light shower, I will not tell what dates.
On the home front we have had a bad time getting the wheat out of the hoppers. It set up just like cement. The answer seemed to be Alvin's kid's ice fishing auger. We could drill down to the bottom where the unloading auger was. Once we got the augers moving the grain would drain down. I have never seen anything like it before.
I tried combining yesterday. Got stuck twice! Had to go get the four wheel drive tractor. I am a combine towing expert from other years. It is a skill that I just as soon not have to practice. Hook on the back left corner, go slow, no jerking, A1 gear, half throttle, no wreckage. John Deere combines have a frame, some other red ones do not.
I made Alvin combine today. He has made two hoppers and hasn't been stuck yet. I told him the Big Guy Looks after you, Alvin! Alvin said the Big Guy looks after everyone. Oh well, maybe!
In political news, Senators McDuffy and Pam Wallin have been booted from caucus.
Stephen Harper's chief of staff, Nigel Wright, has resigned because he gave Duffy a $90,000 loan to pay back his housing allowance. To the people who go to Ottawa and misuse the public purse, don't let the screen door hit you in the butt on the way out. Good bye, good riddance!
When someone does something nice or a good thing, I like to send them a literary rose and I say my hat is off to them. When it is the other way, I send them a brick!
I would like to send a brick to the Oceans and Fisheries Department for keeping the bridge on old Highway 21 south of Maidstone closed. Funerals became an eight-mile excursion. You have forced people to go around on back country roads that were not designed for the traffic. May a frost boil swell up right in front of your house, too.
I would also like to send a brick to the CN repair crew who are replacing the wood in the crossings. They had four crossings torn up in a row and looking for more. I can understand the wood in the crossings needs fixing, but why tear more up when you haven't fixed the ones behind you. Four days they had Waseca torn up. There is no crossing west of Waseca until you get to the Lashburn /Neilburg grid. All the traffic had to be rerouted again on back roads, again not designed for the traffic. I would also like to thank them for the car launch crossing at Waseca. Sure keeps the shocks and springs limbered up!
Lastly, but not least, a brick to Jason Kenney for trying to make it more difficult for temporary foreign workers to come to Canada. Another brick for Leon Beniot for supporting Jason Kenney in toughening the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. These guys are out of touch with reality. Lloydminster is one of the areas that has a severe labour shortage and this is in Benoit's riding, and he should know of this labour shortage!
The only one in favour of the cancellation of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is the Canadian Labor Council. They would drive wages up so that every business would go bankrupt trying to pay them.
Fifteen years ago the Liberals and Conservatives did not listen to the voters. The Reform Party was formed. Jason Kenney and Leon Benoit were right there at the beginning. Have you forgotten how and why you formed the Reform Party? Have you come full circle where it is you, who are no longer listening to the voters?
