The Brussels Post, 1977-12-07, Page 3Amen
by Karl Schuessler
I always knew it was true. News in the
ountry isn't reported as it happens. It's
eported before it' happens.
And I'm no exception. I told you last week
Ralph Wietersen unloaded a truckful of
Christmas, trees. And if you rushed right over
o pick the choice of the lot, you couldn't find
one branch of a Christmas tree in sight.
The truth is Ralph Wietersen doesn't
ave one Christmas tree to sell -- yet.
Now, where -did ,I get such a fool notion?
tout's honor. One day, not too long ago, I
saw Ralph 'standing outside his store by a
truck filled with Christmas trees.
That was the glimpse of Ralph I got at the
stop sign when- pulled across the road and
headed for Toronto. •
Okay, so I put two and two together and got
five. I figured, it's late November' . Ralph.
Truckload of' trees. It didn't take much
imagination to have the whole truck unloaded
and Ralph's front.store yard, all propped up in
Christmas trees.
That's the trouble. Out here in the country
you expect certain things to happen -- each
year, each week, eash season. It wouldn't be
Saturday if Bob French didn't ring the church
bells in Brodhagen at St. Peter's at six o'clock
in the evening.
It wouldn't be winter if the snow plow didn't
knock over my mail box. It wouldn't be winter
if I didn't hear about what some Indian
predicts about the weather. It seems as if one
Indian has more weather sense than all of us
put together. If some one says "An Indian
says" then that makes his forecast 99 percent
sure.
I heard a good one about an Indian weather
man. It was told at a school assembly, when
veteran bus driver Earl Roney retired after 30
years of accident free driving. Seems as if
every morning Earl would call up this Indian
and get the weather prospects. What kind of
storm was blowing up for the day? What did
the wind have in mind? And what were the
sideroads and backroads in for?
This one morning, though, Earl called extra
early. The Indian said he couldn't give Earl an
answer.
"What? After all these years? Why can't
you tell me today about the weather?"
"I haven't listened to my radio yet," the
Indian said.
See? We do get used to certain things, like
the Indian forecasts, no matter where they do
come from.
• And I do get used to Ralph Wietersen's
Christmas trees. He's not going to disappoint
you this year, either. The trees are coming.
Maybe they're here right now.
Ralph says he didn't like the look of thoSe
trees he saw 'on the truck that day. They were
in pretty tough shape. He's waiting for
something better.
Sure, he knows it's later than usual. Other
years he had them by now. But Ralph's going
to make sure he's unloading a good looking
bunch of trees. They're coming. They're
coming.
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