If you like variety in your weather, last week was it. We had showers, then we had some sunshine. Then we had heavy rain. Then a little sunshine. Then we had lots of lightning and some big thunder boomers. Then back to sun. We had everything. Before the thunder boomers and lightning started my old black cat Beaner, who normally wants outside at night, wanted to go right downstairs to the basement. How do these animals know when bad weather is coming?
For those who believe in the hoar frost I have the June 3 and 4 marked as possible rain. I just wrote it down last winter. We will see.
On the home front my wheat is up nicely. My man Chris K. did a good job. I like to see a crop come out of the ground and just keep going. My son Ron is busy seeding my canola for me. The new guy, Sven, is busy cultivating in front of him. Sven has never cultivated or run a farm tractor before. It has been a steep learning curve for him. He had a bad day last week as he was stuck twice, lost a wheel bearing, had a flat tire and had the large pipe rockshaft break. That cultivator is down for the count and he is now using my Morris cultivator. I am thinking whether I should take the rockshaft apart down there or invent some sort of a block to keep the transport wheels down to limp it home. I like the thought of fixing it up by the shop as it seems you never have enough tools when you are field fixing. Never the less, to fix it right I am sure we need to pull the rockshaft right out and put a smaller pipe inside the one that's there. Then I can weld it all up solid. I wonder where that engineer is that designed that light a pipe for the job. Over priced and under engineered again.
In political news the Ontario election is down to just 12 days away on June 12. Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak has promised to cut 100,000 civil servant jobs in 10 years by not rehiring when someone retires or moves on. He said no one will get fired. Now Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne has spun it, warning if Hudak is elected that 10,000 school teachers will get fired. Who do you believe? We have seen this scenario before. When someone advocates cuts to the civil service, it is always the same. They pick on the weakest and the people who would be on the ground floor directly serving the public. No parent is going to be happy with something that directly hurts their child. This way the largest cross section of the public is affected and the public will not want these cuts to continue. The paper pusher hiding in the woodwork, drawing three times the wage of a teacher, never gets touched. It's all a red herring anyway as you can only have so many children in a class. Before the election is over they will be picking on nurses, mark my word, or highway workers. Those are the favourite targets. It should also be noted that these are the people who are actually working.
I shake my head at politicians like Kathleen Wynne who advocate spending taxpayer money to build up Ontario. You can't build Ontario or any other province using taxpayer money. Do politicians not grasp the concept that taxpayer money comes from someone making money in the base industries, then paying taxes. That is new taxes! That is new money! Then and only then, do governments get new money to spend. Getting taxes from civil servants just recycles what little money you have and will not build anything. It is a recipe for more deficit spending.
Mark your calendars everyone for the fly-in and drive-in pancake breakfast for the grand opening of the Maidstone Airport Saturday, June 21. The breakfast is 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. The official opening ceremony is to take place at 10 a.m. For more information call the RM of Eldon office at 306-893-2391. Everyone is welcome!
Joke of the week: A young extremely good-looking, scantily dressed co-ed goes into a professor's office. She closes the door and she says, "I would do anything to pass this upcoming test." "Anything," asked the professor. "Yes," she said "Just anything," as she flicked her hair and gazed into his eyes. He said "Would you, like, study?"
