6.12.2001
Athabasca
Dear Alan,
Now you will
discover that my handwriting is worse than terrible.
Had dentist hell this year. I
had a tooth pulled in May. 5th left bottom. For a month or more the
pain had increased to the level that every night I took an aspro or I couldn’t
sleep. In March 2000, part of the tooth broke off, a couple of years before the
filling fell out. It had rotted down to the nerve. Either root canal ($2,000)
or bridge ($2,000). So I got it pulled. I then had work done in September on 6
teeth, over $400 worth. Yuck. George who has also avoided the dentist has
started to get his teeth fixed, but fortunately didn’t lose any. It will cost
$1600. Farming is definitely the wrong business.
Farming has
been one step forward, two steps backward this year. It had everything from the
thief who stole money and fuel from us, including all the boys’ coins, the Cree
J, who disappeared with his pay to a reserve, the grandson who drove a grain
truck into the pickup and a retired soil scientist who came for a week in
harvest and thought repairs were exciting. The wheat has ergot a natural
poison, the canola didn’t make it, so got frost damaged and didn’t turn so is
only grade 3, the barley was good, but one crop wasn’t going to make it, so we
cut it for silage, so we have too much. Our water to the cattle is completely
out at the moment the cows are eating snow and we didn’t buy any feeders. We
haven’t weaned our calves but our car failed us, the trip was hell.
George got
2nd @ 3rd burns during harvest when he opened the
radiator cap. He is worn out at the moment. Both Aurora and Bryce visited in
Spring. Aurora 15 year old Yale who is a computer whizz kid. He has a website.
To both of them we out of the real world and LA is it. Bryce kept cleaning his
expensive shoes because they got dirt on them.
Wedding
anniversaries don’t appeal to me, I would be more interested in Dad’s 80th,
but that’s not until 2003.
Tempted to enclose some GE
canola. Did you know the first genetically modified product was insulin. Do all
insulin users get kicked out of Tassie when Tassie goes GE free? If commercial
farmers are so bad how come we are living longer and are taller?
I imagine Bradley can already
hit a cricket ball and kick a footy. Robert can do head stands. He is too
competitive and having trouble at school showing tolerance to others. He has
his own sense of fair play.
Love Pam
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