Someone is trying to trick us. Either The Big Guy or da devil. We all think it is time for harvest. But someone seems to have other planns

In the summer when the crops are growing, nature played the showers lottery with places receiving lots of rain. Just a few miles away no rain and dry as could be. Now harvest time and everybody is getting rain! What gives anyways?? This isn’t nice! Unfortunately, we have seen it before – dry all summer and come fall we get Monsoon August and September. Good luck harvesting everyone!

            On the home front, son in law Jose who was so anxious to start he was tied to a logging chain in the yard. He finally broke loose and was spraying and seeding at an amazing pace. Now he is reaping the benefits of seeding early. He has all his wheat sprayed. He has two 36 foot John Deere swathers and they are knocking down one field after field of canola! He soon will have all the canola swathed.

    Bradley is swathing away on canola with six machines. He will soon have to stop as he summerfallowed a section by the highway and it is still a bit green. Every shower brings more pods out. Hopefully, he will be rewarded.

   On my home place, Frank hired a plane to spray and now the canola is ripening. His plan is to straight cut.

    I hope these straight cutters know that there is a difference between dry and cured. Don’t be dumping it all hot in a bin. Could easy have a stinky wreck.                       I wish everyone well with harvest! And don’t get too stressed out and tired!

            When we moved into this house in Lloydminster, in the backyard it was a lawn and nothing else. I basically hate trees. They are always trying the wreck my swather and combine. I have brushed and broke about 4000 acres in my lifetime and I have a saying, “the only good tree is a dead tree!”

             I asked my wife one spring what she would like for her birthday, and she replied.. “a couple of apple trees”. I relented and went to Wicham’s and bought some trees! I bought three apple trees, two cherry trees, two saskatoon bushes and some hascaps. I tried haggling but no way. I finally got a break on some scruffy little hascaps. We have received flowers on the cherry trees and only once did they have fruit. There have been no Saskatoons and last year one apple tree produced a dozen apples. But those little hascap bushes, did they ever produce this year!  A few years ago, grandson Santiago was visiting so I sent him out to check on the fruit trees. After a lengthy bit of time he came back. He said there were no apples, no cherries, no saskatoons. I asked, “Was there any hascaps?” Pulling himself up to full height and with an air of confidence he said, “Nope, no hascaps!” I looked closer at him and could see his lips were blue, his teeth were blue and so was his tongue. He was right there was none out there, they were all inside him!  

      After waiting seven years, I had my first bowl of hascaps. And I ate them all myself!!!

Yours truly

Victor Hult