The Brussels Post, 1975-08-06, Page 8Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
Sitting here writing a column in
Grandad's office, a pair of shorts, and
nothing else, I would have to work very
hard at it to be anything but peaceful, and
I'm not about to.
Back home, my lawn is burning to a
crisp, my roses are dying for lack of water,
my cat, with any luck, has left for good,
and some junkie has probably broken into
the house .&t stolen the colour T.V. I don't
care.
Out there somewhere, people are
hurtling along hot asphalt in the heat,
cursing the obstreperous kids in the back
seat, and wishing they'd never started this
stupid trip.
Elsewhere, guys and dolls all over the
world are hustling and sweating and trying
to impress each other, and pursuing the
everdwindling buck with maniacal inten-
sity of purpose.
Everywhere, politicians are cooking up
new clouts for the next session, or thinking
up new ways of saying: "Maybe yes, and
no, and maybe maybe.
Somewhere, Arabs are killing Jews,and
Jews are killing Arabs, and Christians, in
time-honoured custom, are killing other
Christians.
Somebody is winning $30,000 in the
Something-Or-Other-Open with a 24 foot
putt, and somebody else is losing it by
missing a four foot putt.
People are earnestly taking virtually
useless summer courses which will fit them
for practically nothing
Unexpected and unwelcome visitors are
piling in on "old friends." The visitors
unload two surly kids, one illmannered
dog, and announce heartily: "Can't stay
morena coupla days. Thought about gettin'
a motel room but knew you'd be hurt 'f we
didden stay 'thyou." (Sound of old friends'
eyes rolling.)
" My son is in Paraguay, South America,
swimming a piranha-infested river, or
slouching through the jungle, kicking
poisonous snakes out of the wasy, or lying
in a native hut, wracked with by malaria.
My only daughter is trapped in a box on
the ninth floor of an appartment building,
in the heat, with an 18-month hell-on-
wheels boy clutching her sawed-off jeans,
and a little sister in the oven, ready to join
him just about on his second birthday and
oh, dear, isn't it awful.
Imagine having two babies in two years
in these times. (Sound of Gran, gnashing
teeth.(
And about all of these things all the
hurly and the burly, all the moss and the
fuss, all the higgle and piggle, all of the
ever-lasting human struggle to prove that
god's in His heaven and all's wrong with
the world, or the opposite, I don't care.
I just don't give a diddley-dam'. Why
not? Because, at this time and in this place,
I have irrefutable proof that FIe is in His
heaven, and there ain't nobody who could
improve on the world just as it is, right
now. •
It's a cool-hot perfect Canadian day. Hot
sun, cool breeze. Whatever your thermom-
eter says, it's about 83 Fahrenheit here.
I raise my head from the typewriter, and
roses lean toward me, a big, matronly
maple ruffles her bustles in the breeze, like
a lady caught in a body-rub parlor.
On the top rail of the fence, 10 feet away,
two retarded robins are singing; and
making, overtures. A denuded lilac bush is
whispering: "Yes, but wait 'til next year."
Along the back fence, the hollyhocks
stand, not row on row, but in little groups,
muttering together, tossing their head in
the breeze, and looking down their long,
cool shoulders at the upstart blue
delphiniums, which bear a gleam of
miscegenation in their eyes.
Just beyond them is a field of uncut,
late, late hay, bowing an tossing and
rippling and tossing and rippling like a
blonde teenager who has just discovered
she just might be a beautiful woman.
Raise the eyes but one more degree, and
there, framed in green foliage, is the
deep-blue beauty of the two-mile-wide bay,
with the high, rolling shoreline on the other
side, and the cottages so tiny that you can't
see the squalling, grunting, sweaty
humans in and around them.
Ah, but it's lovely. And peaceful. And
lonely. Not lonesome, but the good kind of
lonely, when you don't wnat another
human being, even a loved one, to spoil the
mood.
Maybe that's it. My Loved One is away
dc the gravel road, exchanging hyster-
ical tales about their children with an old
school friend.
Grandad, an incorrigible 83-year-old, is
out belting around his 40-mile mail route.
This morning, I was a hawk. When I say
little, the chickens, who were all psyched
up, would scuttle, the kids would all
scream with delight: "A hawkl A hawk!"
and the farmer would run in for his
shotgun.
Nobody even noticed this guy. He looked
like a skinny, ancient kite, peering down
for the dead body of a Roman legionnaire,
perhaps. No chickens. No legionnaires (I
haven't paid my dues). It was kind of sad.
Donw in the Bay, there is a big rainbow
trout just waiting to show me some tricks.
Yesterday, I saw two partidge flush just
outside Grandad's "office" window. To-
morrow I'll see three deer standing up by
the fence, looking curious.
Tomorrow I'll care about the world
again, and all the bad things and good
things happening in it.
put right now, at this time, in this place,
I don't care. God may be out to lunch, as I
frequently suspect. But whoever is filling
in for Him at this moment is doing one
helluva job, if you'll pardon the expression.
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A light offering of cattle, except
cows, at Brussels Stockyards
yesterday traded lower on a dull
market. There were no fancy
steers on offer. A good supply of
pigs sold higher.
Good Steers - 45.00 to 47.60.
Medium Steers - 42.00 to 44.00.
Fourteen steers consigned by
A.B.M. Farms of Ethel averaging
1020 lbs. sold for 47.60 with their
26 steers averaging 981 lbs.
selling for 47.30.
Seven steers consigned by Leo
Deitner of Ethel averaging 1057
lbs. sold for 45.90.
A -steer consigned by Cliffor d
Adams of Londesboro weighing
970 lbs. sold for 46,00.
Good Heifers - 40.00 to 43.00.
Medium Heifers - 38.00 to
40.00.
Three heifers consigned by
Keith Hardy of Belgrave
averaging 840 lbs. sold for 43.00.
Three heifers consigned by
George Blake of Brussels
averaging 883 lbs. sold for 43.00.
Three heifers consigned by Bill
Hardy of Belgrave averaging 880
lbs. sold for 42.75.
Choice Cows - 24.00 to 26.00
with sales to 26.75.
Good Cows - 21.00 to 23.00.
Medium Cows - 17.00 to 20.00.
A cow consigned by Mack
Cardiff weighing 1170 lbs. sold
for 26.75.
30 to 40-lbs. pigs sold to a high
of 44.25,8.40 to 50-lb. pigs sold to
a high of 51.40i 50 to 60-lb. pigs
sold to.55.50.
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Horticultural group
plans flower , show
Toes were tapping at the
Brussels Horticultural Society's
meeting last Monday night when
members were entertained by
step dancers Ted Elliott and Kim
Craig. They were accompanied by
Mrs. B. Elliott on piano.
Ted also played the guitar,
accompanied by his mother and.
Mrs. Mitchell on violin. Mrs.
Miller thanked the entertainers.
23 members attended the meet-
ing.
President Mrs. Fred Dunk will
convene the August 22 turkey
supper, assisted • by Mrs. A.
McCall, Mrs. N. Reid, Mrs. Wm.
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John Kelly.
The flower show the same day
Huronview
is in charge of Mrs. Geo,
Wheeler, Mrs. N. McLarty,Mts,
John Speir, Mrs. D. Hemingway
and Mr. A. Knight.
Mrs. Dunk said some entries in
last month's rose show were
removed before closing time at 5
p.m. Mrs. Gwen Frawthrop den.
onstrated flower arranging and
drying, and corsage making. The
guest speaker was introduFed and
thanked by Mrs. Bert Heniingway
after a 20 minute question and
answer session.
Mrs. Dale Machan won the
door prize. After the meeting
lunch was served by Mrs. Geo
Wheeler, Mrs. Jas. Mali, Mrs,
Doug Machan and Mrs. F. Shaw,
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entertained with a variety program consisting of accordion
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several taking part in some of the dancing and a sing-a-long;
Lunch was sery ed in the dining room and the group arrived
home at five-thir ty.
The Seaforth Brass Band led by Doctor Toll entertained
with a concert on Family-night. The band of twenty members
consists of musicians from Brodhagen and Dashwood as well
as from the Seaforth area.' An added feature of the Tuesday
evening concert was guitar and vocal selections by Patty
O'Rourke and Tricia Hicknell with accordion numbers by
Vicky O'Rourke.
Ed Stiles of Goderich played an hour of organ music
Thursday afternoon and accompanied Betty Rogers
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