Of course, no parade would be complete without SANTA!! Santa and Mrs. Claus parade through the streets of Rockwood on their Case IH 1680 Combine!
(Hat tip to reader “Dorothy” from Guelph, ON who attended this year’s event.)
Of course, no parade would be complete without SANTA!! Santa and Mrs. Claus parade through the streets of Rockwood on their Case IH 1680 Combine!
(Hat tip to reader “Dorothy” from Guelph, ON who attended this year’s event.)
Geez, I was *so* hoping for a sleigh pulled by twelve huge holsteins.
Was this sanctioned by the National Farmers Union?
I didn’t know they made combines back in 1680
Santa says it’s okay to vote for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, eh, Carolyn?
Yep, says Carolyn. (An apotheosis for Stephen Harper from Carolyn? Wowsers!)
`I wouldn’t want to be running now’: Parrish
Dec. 14, 2005. 01:00 AM
JIM WILKES
STAFF REPORTER
There’s a little pillow in Carolyn Parrish’s office, a gift from a loyal supporter after all the woes in Ottawa that finally got her booted from the Liberal caucus last year.
Embroidered in colourful threads, it reads: “Lord, keep your arm around my Shoulder, and your hand over my MOUTH!”
Well, the Lord didn’t do a very good job then and he’s not having much luck these days as the Mississauga maverick watches a federal election campaign from the sidelines for the first time in a dozen years.
Like when mail carrier Roman wanders in to find her holding court at the huge table that serves as her desk � real offices are for her assistants � and asks what she thinks of the latest goodies offered by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and how they’ll affect her old Liberal colleagues.
“It’s a meltdown, a disaster,” she says, shaking a mane of highlighted curls that tumble over a tailored jacket.
“Have you been watching him?” she asks. “Harper keeps coming out with a juicy new thing every day that all the young families love.
“I wouldn’t want to be running in this election right now,” the former Independent MP for Mississauga-Erindale says. “I agree with the stuff he’s giving, too. Money for sports, to register your kids in sports. Good thing.”
She points to mailman Roman, who’s balancing big brown envelopes to guess their weight.
“He’s Ukrainian. I’m Polish. My mother stayed home and I stayed home with my kids.
“When they’re offering you a hundred bucks a month for each kid and you’ve got four little kids � and you were going to stay home anyway � isn’t that neat?
“Free money.”
She says people come up to her at local shops to talk about the issues.
“They say, `Yes, this is really good. Is it okay if we vote Tory, Carolyn?’ Yeah, it’s okay, I’m not running,” she whispers.
A tough call for a Jean Chr�tien loyalist who’s still a card-carrying Liberal. >>>
http://www.rapp.org/url/?T1XEUR1D
thestar
I love small farm town parades. They’re gone, now, in California. I also have a large jones for farm equipment and when my family used to ranch and farm, I never missed the big show in Fresno. There was just something special about climbing up, up, up into the large cab of the latest Godzilla tractor, dropping the ripper equipped hitch; putting the trans in max grunt and stopping the world on its axis as the big shanks bit into the hard pan. Men, boys and the price of their toys.
Row upon row of Hi-Floats, combines and viners all smelling like new cars, stuffed with the latest widgets that you just knew would cost and arm and a leg to fix when they crapped out, but just; oh, so neat.
I hate being reduced to the position of a CFO of what is now just a specialized real estate and leasing operation. Kate, I don’t envy your weather but I do envy the kind of solid people you get to have for neighbors.
“Was this sanctioned by the National Farmers Union?”
Good God is there anything more “Communist” than the N.F.U. or what? The Co-operator’s Insurance company is a close second, however!
Easy there Eskimo. I was just being funny or trying to be. I had a mental image of Wayne Easter and Nettie Wiebe in Santa suits riding on the Belarus Don 1500 (Broke down and being towed)
Belarus tractors are the perfect shrine to post Communism. Broke down, no parts available, piece of crap and the owner really wanted a John Deere (capitalism) but thought the cheaper knock off would be “just as good”. heh heh!
Oh yeah…Federated Co-op stores are #3!
Rockwood…A place where rednecks and city slickers keep their distance.
Rural protest clogs Highway 417
Last updated Dec 14 2005 02:52 PM EST
CBC News
Commuters found it slower going than usual Wednesday morning on Highway 417 because of a protest by Eastern Ontario landowners and farmers that started at 8 a.m.
The scene on Highway 417 Wednesday morning
[ Pic of Parade here; Santa is missing? ]
Police advised people to leave for work earlier, or to avoid the highway altogether.
Rural landowners and farmers started driving into Ottawa in slow-moving tractors and trucks. They came from both directions, one convoy starting at Kinburn Sideroad in the west, and moving east to the Carling Avenue exit.
The other convoy started at the Vars and Anderson Road area in the east, and headed west to the Bronson Avenue exit.
Both convoys headed for the Experimental Farm area.
Because of that, the road south from Island Park to the Experimental Farm was closed between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Provincial police asked drivers who must use Highway 417 to show patience.
Similar delays will occur when the convoys return home, starting at 2 p.m.
The Lanark Landowners Association External linkis staging the convoys to protest what it calls “excessive and intrusive” government legislation.
Its members say devalued private land in the greenbelt and restricted use of private land are issues to be addressed at a rally.
In March, farmers delivered 11 resolutions to the Ontario legislature, saying they’re facing “desperate times” and need provincial help.
* FROM MARCH 9, 2005: Hundreds of farmers protest in Ontario
The protesters targeted the government’s stand on farm subsidies and other concerns.
The resolutions dealt with things such as the new greenbelt legislation, property rights and what protest organizers call the over-regulation of rural Ontario.>>>
http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/story/ot-farmers20051214.html
http://www.ruralrevolution.com/website/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=179
That isnt a CASEIH 1680 that is a Gleaner combine, an N model.
Ken
The picture inspired a vision of a 1680 combine making a sweep over a field of Jihadists. They would stack better if bailed up first.