My hoar frost outlook for last week was not completely accurate. We had rain on Monday and Tuesday. I had no rain marked. I have no rain marked now until June 20. We will see. I have no problem accepting rain.
On the home front, the crop is all in and coming up nicely. We are going to be hard on the sprayer as the weeds are flourishing also. All around me the high clearance sprayers are going hard and there are not many fields left to be sprayed. Time is marching on. You know the saying "time and tide wait for no one."
The new man Sven has finished picking rocks and he is quite happy about it. I told him he had to do the Tarzan yell. He didn't know what that was so I asked him how he had lived this long and demonstrated the Tarzan yell for him. I beat my chest and gave my best imitation of a gorilla. He just looked at me with a little grin on his face. Probably thought I had lost my marbles. It's good when you finish a large job to give the Tarzan yell. Try it. It will make you feel good.
I have to take my hat off to Chris Koch, the man I imported from South Africa. He seeded all of my wheat crop, working after a full day at his other job. Then seeding after supper and on weekends. He had never run an air seeder before. The crop is coming up nicely and looks really good. I can't thank him enough. He stepped up when my other man had to quit because of a health problem. Chris has a degree in veterinary assistant and wanted to get back in that field. Chris has now left my employment and is now working for Creech's at Lloydminster. I wish him all the best. He told me he had ridden a horse for 12 hours sorting and moving cattle. He tells me he now feels like he is walking funny! Gezzzee! What about the horse, Chris? What about the horse?
The people of Ontario have voted and have elected a majority Liberal government of 58 seats. Kathleen Wynne would not have been my choice. The Liberals have a long record of scandals and reckless government spending. They currently run a budget deficit of $12 billion a year and have over one million people unemployed. This all can be attributed to poor financial management by the government. There is going to be some tough decisions coming up. Kathleen Wynne campaigned that she was going to do things differently. I hope she is! She has stated she will recall the legislature on July 2 and have the throne speech and pass the budget. This will be a slight hardship for the politicians in Ontario as none of them are used to working in July. I wish her and the people of Ontario luck as they deal with their finances.
People were turned off by Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, who was calling for stiff financial changes. He was calling for elimination of 100,000 government jobs over 10 years. This sounds harsh until you put it in prospective. The last Liberal administration added 300,000 government jobs. Maybe that figure is not out of whack. Nevertheless, voters in Ontario rejected the PCs and they were reduced to 28 seats. Tim Hudak resigned as leader election night.
The NDP leader Andrea Horwath campaigned hard and ended up with the exact same number of seats at 21. There were no calls for her resignation.
Our granddaughter Faith lost her Speckle Park 4-H calf, Sugar Bear. He escaped from the Lloydminster Exhibition grounds on achievement day. With all the noise and people around he got spooked. He broke away dragging a rope halter and was last seen heading east across the golf course. He was spotted by the dump road later, but would not let anyone near him. Then he just disappeared. There were many tears and countless hours of searching. The lost is now found. He showed up with Payne's cattle and thankfully he calmed down enough so we could bring him back home. Thanks to everyone who helped search.
Joke of the week as told to me by David Spears: A man wakes up in a hospital room. He has casts on both legs and one on his arm. As he was wondering where he was when the doctor comes in. The doctor said, "You have been in a terrible car accident, but don't worry, no one was killed. Everyone is going to live and you had enough insurance to cover your hospital stay and a little bit besides. Unfortunately. the steering column has severed half your penis but don't worry we have new technology and we can rebuild it. Because it would be cosmetic surgery, it would not be covered by insurance and it is quite expensive casting $1,000 an inch. Talk it over with your wife and you have to decide how much money you want to spend."
The next day the doctor came back and asked the man what he and his wife had decided. The man looking very dejected and said they were going for granite counter tops.
