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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-03-18, Page 36Page 20 - Farm Progress `98 YOUR ONE STOP . FARM SOURCE CHICK DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN SEXED OR MIXED ALSO AVAILABLE: TURKEYS, DUCKS, GEESE, PHEASANTS, GUINEAS, 20 WEEK OLD PULLETS ORDER EARLY - LIMITED SUPPLY OF WHITE ROCKS. DELIVERY DATES: APRIL PT & 29T" MAY 2r", JUNE 24T", SEPT. 16T", OCT. 7T" WE CARRYA COMPLETE LINE OF FEEDERS, WATERERS, HEAT LAMPS, BALED SHAVINGS SEE US FOR ALL YOUR FEEDING REQUIREMENTS Be Insured With Us! Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Brokers have lived in" and served rural Ontario tor s. So they understand your needs and concems. Wayne G. !ache A.I.I.C. Farrn Insurance Specialist roe. 519;14$4175 Gaiser-Kneale represents Howick Mutual Insurance: Another Company that understands small town Ontario. We are your full service brokers. See us today for farm, home, auto, commercial, life and investments. Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Brokers Inc. 14 Isaac St., Clinton 482-9747 ,Life on the farm • You better have a positive perspective by Pat Livingston AHamilton - Wentworth dairy farmer is making a name for herself on the speaking circuit giving her "Positive Perspective on Life.".And Eleanor Wood has certainly found her niche! Wood was a guest speaker at the Lucknow Co-op's producer meeting in February. The dynamic woman, who relies on per- sonal experiences to get the message across, had the farmers laughing — the world's best medicine — and identifying with her humorous and serious look at life. What it all boiled down to was the importance of remembering to work on relationships as intently as we work at our jobs or businesses. "All we want in life is just a little guarantee that what we hear, or what we know, will actually come true," said Wood. "Well, it doesn't usually work like that. Life is the expecta- tion of what we think is going to happen. We gath- er all of the information we possibly can and we use that grey matter to sort it. You make some deci- sions ... and then you live with it. That's what life is 414;pit'lk all about." Wood said we all have to make the decision "If you're going to work to live. or live to work. As you arc doing that, realize none of us is going to get out of this world alive. On your very last day on this world, are you going to rise up on your shoul- der and say, 'My, I wish I'd spent more time in the field.'?" She asked the group to think about what they are building as "quality of life. You have to be able to do somethings right in our business because that is part of our growth; we fine tune our businesses the best way we know how. But that does not mean we have to neglect the relationship part of our life, because on that last day you very sel- dom see the Brinks truck following the hearse." Living every day to its fullest is part of her motto. "When we get up in the morning, decide when our feet hit the floor that we're going to he happy today; we are going to he as posi- you knew the day before. tive as we know how to Don't let the sun go down be." urged Wood. without learning some - "Nothing is ever per- thing new, because you fect, but you weigh out the don't know how many data and you decide that days you're going to get." you have to get your act A farm setup is unique, together because this said Wood, because family could be IT (last day) and life and business life run we don't want to miss together. "It is important it." to plant a few 'peas' — praise, encouragement, appreciation, sincerely. Doing a good job on a farm is like wetting your pants in a dark suit — it's a nice warm feeling but nobody notices," Wood quipped. "When you give encouragement and appre- ciation you in fact give love," she said. It is important to get the priori- ties straight in our houses. "Taking care of relation- ships is vital." In keeping with her style, Wood ended with the following: "My wish for you would be that you not have too much velvet leaf in your fields, may your conveyors always run smoothly, may you never have too much month left over at the end of the money, and may the wind at your hack always be your own." With farming, Wood said, you always have a reason to get up in the morning and "that's a fabu- lous commodity. It makes the job we do a gold mine." While farming is fraught with dangers and risks and chances, Wood said, "That's why we're in it! Because we like that." Her advice was: don't fall into the trap thinking about all the wrong things; see the good things; decide to be happy; be optimistic. "Start with a positive attitude towards life. You understand that life is great — without it you're dead." Make the most of every day. "Every day you get to live allows you to leam something more than Eleanor Wood r is PNSULATION 528-2279 Free • Agricultural • Industrial Estimates • Residential • Commercial R.R. #1 Lucknow Personally Serviced by Ron Snowden Seaweed/Oa, ea URETHANE FOAM AND BLOWN CELLULOSE INSULATION