Another week has come and gone. But what happened to our summer.
Feels more like fall. It’s many years ago now when we were haying with horses and the pull type mowers and hay was handled with a pitch fork, we had a bad wet summer.
I well remember finishing up our haying after school went it, this was September.
The hay was poor but beat feeding snowballs. Most of the hay was put up in stacks. We were haying that year on the fields that Zemenchik’s now own. At the time
I am talking about Joe Stretch owned the property. Neil Kelly was also haying the same property.
Road trip
On Wednesday last my son-in-law Rick Hunter took me to Terrace for an eye check up. It was a nice trip down and in Terrace it was hot and dry.
A nice day. We left for home at about 1:30, the temp. was 29 and to us it was hot. At about Hazelton we hit a rain storm and a heavy one too.
As we left Topley and going up the six mile hill the temp. had dropped to plus 9. A drop of 20 degree’s in less than an hour, what a shock. Then it poured rain all the way home, a real gulley washer.
It seems it’s not going to stop either. Our basement is a mess the first time ever. Just will not dry up. Yesterday the inside of our shop was a lake. I guess there are folks worse off than we are, so it’s grin and bear it, better days are coming, I hope.
Think of the ranchers with all their hay still in the fields.
Good news
I notice in our last paper under money for good causes, this has really been a shot in the arm for the lakes. Lakes District Arts Council, Fall Fair Assn., Francois Lake and Tchesinkut Lake Rec. Comm., and the L. D. Film Society. This is all through the generosity of different organizations.
Nice cars
Another thing that has come to my attention was the Burn Lake Show and Shine.
I get a feeling of nostalgia when I see these pictures. The first taxi cab I started out with in the 40’s was a chev I bought from Wiggs O’Neil in Smithers.
It had a column shift and a straight overhead valve six. It was a tough car and we drove it over some terrible roads, no pavement, lots of mud holes and some rough bush roads.
It turned out over 100,000 miles. I know that the cars put out in this day and age would never do it.
My next car a big Dodge in the early 50’s. It also turned over 100,000 miles of also rough roads. I had lots of cars from then on and I have forgotten how many.
My first taxi trip was for Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sugden to Kamloops nonstop there and back. My first experience of nonstop driving and from then on lots of long trips.
I sold my first chev cab to Mike and Mabel Tetreau, they drove it a long time and they sold it Tommy Jack and he took off the body and made a Bennet buggy out of it and used a team of horses on it.
I used to see it go by and I thought of the many miles that I had driven it. Maybe it was a good ending for the old chev.
It’s original cost was $700. After my Dodge had to be turned in I went into the Burns Lake hardware and garage and ordered a new chev sedan, top of the line, $2300, Gordon Rush was the salesman. It’s now over 60 years ago. Those were good years and have left me with many happy memories.
It’s Sunday morning and it’s raining again. This is got to be a very serious situation especially for all our ranchers. Let’s hope August will give them a break.
Sad news
Some sad news for the Francois Lake folks with the passing of Billy Weins. Billy grew up here at Francois Lake, and spent his school years going to the Francois Lake school.
The Weins family moved to Houston many years ago and that’s where Billy spent all his life. Bill spent all his life working in the woods.
He had big machinery he work with also he was a truck driver. He leaves his wife and grown family and many friends, not only at Francois Lake but in Houston as well.
Bill was also a good friend of mine as I had known him all his life. Like his dad, Abe, he liked his hockey games.
A visitor
Yesterday I had a very dear friend of mine drop in for a short visit. She had just come down from visiting the little church on the corner, St. Luke’s.
It was a shock for her to see it closed up. She used to go to Sunday school there as a child.
The cobwebs, and the dust has more or less taken over.
Yes, it makes us all very sad to see it as a derelict building. After over 90 years of being a place of worship it’s now gone.
I just wonder if the powers that be realize what they have done.
The foundation of any Christian church is love and that love has gone. Like so many churches, bureaucracy has sneaked in the back door, so what ever love was there has gone by the wayside.
A little story
A guy had a sick dog so he took it to the vet to see what was the matter with his dog.
The vet told him the dog was dead. The fellow said “prove it.” The vet laid the dog on the table and brought in his cat and they cat walked all over the dog and it never moved.
This all proved the dog was dead for sure. The dog owner said “I guess you proved your point, my dog is dead.”
Next week he got a bill from the vet for $300. The owner was mad so he asked the vet why did you charge me $300 to prove that my dog was dead.
So the vet broke down the bill. $150 for the lab test and $150 for the cat scan.
Have a safe week, slow down as the life you save could be your own. Always remember God loves you and so do I.