75 miles today roundtrip.
Headed for the countryside again, canola was especially bright this morning,,,
Stopped at local car collection for ice cream, after all, all food groups are found in an ice cream sandwich,,,
Our first Alberta dirt road, 8 miles of it.
Put us on the shores of Buffalo Lake for lunch and a few car games.
Tonight was the final banquet. Awards and all, Ed won for driving the farthest.
Little sidelight, as I was getting ready to load the T into the trailer, a couple clean-cut young men came by and wondered about a ride in a T, more specifically for a bride in their group. Turns out they were Hutterites, a religion that lives in colonies, basically communal living. They do not believe in personal property, everything belongs to the colony. There are 15000 Hutterites in Alberta, and 150 colonies. They farm, but not wheat or canola. They generally do eggs, hogs, and milk and are pretty prosperous, the group that we met were all young folk traveling to town in a brand new van. Anyway, I said fine, let's go. I gave rides to the bride and half a dozen of the young girls, and three or four of the young men. They were all quite curious about Model T's, so as I was driving, Patti was talking Model T's. As we finished, I took out my cell phone to get a picture. The young ladies all ducked for cover. One young man noted that they don't take pictures, second commandment in the Bible, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." I offered to delete the picture, but the young man said,it was all right. Incidentally, Hutterites have fought and won to not have their pictures on drivers licenses. anyway, here is my picture. Nice group of young people. And two of the guys helped me put the T in the trailer.
Well,that's it, packed to leave early tomorrow, see you at home.
1 comment:
Those canola flowers are beautiful! I was curious if they crush up the yellow flowers to make canola oil and googled it. “No, canola oil is not made from canola flowers. It is made from the seeds of the canola plant. The bright yellow flowers of the canola plant develop into pods, and these pods contain the seeds from which the oil is extracted.” Well ok then.
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