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Weatherman needs to send warm, dry days

Meota News
Lorna Pearson,Correspondent
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The onions in the front of the picture are ready for the pick-up machine that will pick up the swath and auger it directly into a truck beside it as it moves along the row. The next four rows have had the tops removed and are ready for the machine to pick up all four rows at once and leave them in a swath, as those in the foreground of the picture ones are already. The rest of the field behind is onions waiting their turn to be harvested. This was amazing to watch on Saturday while the weather was good. Then we watched them at the storage shed as eight men worked on the table as the onions passed by them, picking out stones, dirt lumps or smashed or spoiled onions. The auger moved them from the semi truck into the building. The auger moved from slowly side to side as they gradually filled the building. By morning the huge shed was nearly full of tons of onions. Storage buildings can be seen in the background. Photo by Lorna Pearson

Harvest continues every day it's dry enough to work, but the weatherman is having trouble sending the good, dry days needed.

Contract bridge top winner Aug. 29 was Jette Dasilva and second was Marlene Brydges. Games were played in Meota. Duplicate bridge the next evening in Meota found top score by Margaret Dyck and David Sharpe. Second were Glen and Julie Moore and third were Eric Callbeck and Maureen Campbell.

They had a good night with 26 people playing.

Sept. 1, in the city, duplicate bridge top score was earned by Jean Lawes and Fraser Glen. Second high were Joyce Antoine and Margaret Dyck. Tied for third place were Vern Iverson and Gerry Fernandes and Glen and Julie Moore.

My drive out to Taber, Alta. with daughter Beth Wynne went well, as we observed harvest in various stages along the way. We picked up my granddaughter Shari Pearson in Lloydminster. Then we were joined by more family members and a couple of old friends over the weekend at Beth’s home south of Taber. The pumpkin field by her house will be harvested in about a month and the onion field fairly soon. The corn is getting nearly ready, the sugar beets will wait for a frost, potatoes not for a while and so it goes. All farmers are very busy while the weather holds off.

We saw quite a few large herds of cattle as we travelled from Lloydminster south and west, a route I had not been on before. There are large rolling hills with lots of large sloughs. When the folks came down from Carstairs, Alta. they saw one field with five combines working and another field with seven, so harvest is in full swing.

Everyone headed home Monday so I'll be near Carstairs for a few days with son Brad and Kelly and daughter Sally and Norm Bouvier.

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