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The Rural Voice, 1988-08, Page 52SPECIAL CUSTOMIZED TOURS--- , @ BECAUSE YOU DESERVE THE VERY BEST Life and Agricultural Study Tour to the Soviet Union October 19 to November 6, 1988 Tour Leaders: Percy and Mary Pletsch Walkerton, Ontario Included will be agricultural and tourist highlights in and around Moscow, Tashkent, Baku, Kiev, Krasnodar, Minsk, Leningrad and Helsinki Life and Agricultural Study Tour to South East Asia November 4 to 22, 1988 Tour Leader: David Martin, President Clare Burt Tours Here is your opportunity to discover the diversity of South East Asia: From the floating markets of Bangkok to the Mosques of Kuala Lumpur to sophisticated Singapore. Fall Colour Tours 1. Muskoka, September 19 to 21, 1988 2. Hill Island Resort, Gananoque, October 11 to 13, 1988 3. Inns of New England, October 2 to 8, 1988. for detailed brochures and reservations, contact: CLARE BURT TOURS 21 Queen Street East, Brampton, Ontario L6W 3P1 416-451-4944 1-800-268-3090 CANADIAN CO-OPERATIVE WOOL GROWERS LIMITED "SINCE 1918" WOOL MARKETING * Branches and Collection Outlets across Ontario ( See ad on page 34 ) SHEEP SUPPLIES — Manufactured Woolens * Complete Line. * Large Inventory. * Free Catalogue Available. * Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Available from: Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited 142 Franktown Rd., Box 130, Carleton Place, Ontario, K7C 3P3. (613) 257-2714 Ontario Stockyards, 590 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, M6N 3E3. (416) 766-5800 For Information Regarding the Wool Collection Outlet Nearest You, Contact the CANADIAN CO-OPERATIVE WOOL GROWERS "SERVING ONTARIO'S SHEEP PRODUCER" 50 THE RURAL VOICE NOTEBOOK jerked into the air, "And 10 for me!" I yelled. "Oh, and another 10 pounds for my sister." "She would be delighted to," Audrey told us as she hung up the receiver. Our fate was sealed. Canning fever was running wild. We were no match for it. "Well, Elsie," I said, "if you keep grinding, I'll go and pick dill for the cucumbers we're getting." "Okay," Elsie replied, "And while you're at it, pull a few carrots. This relish needs something for colour." Cucumbers, cabbages, onions, beets, dill, and now carrots! What next? What next turned out to be zucchini. It seemed that Elsie's sister had given her plenty of zucchini, so on the way home Elsie gave me some to go along with my cucumbers, cab- bages, onions, carrots, beets, and dill. My car was bottom heavy all the way home. Arriving there, I went out to the garden to have a little talk with my veggies, but found to my horror that they were almost big enough to talk back. "That's it!" I told them. I made relish and green tomato mincemeat, and canned tomatoes, beets, green beans, yellow beans, and yes, made dill pickles. I was doing quite well, I thought, when the "Old Boy" walked in. "What about fish?" he asked. "What do you mean, what about fish?" I replied testily. "Don't you think we should have some?" he asked. "No," I replied. But we did anyway. Thirty-five jars of it. Just enough to give the "Old Boy" a dose of fishing fever. As I was removing the last jar of fish from the pressure cooker, he rushed out the door, pole in hand, to get me some more. And today, while I am writing this, I have a canner full of good old Christmas pudding bubbling away gently on the stove. The fever burns on.0 Coralie Adams is a Rural Voice subscriber from Innisfail, Alberta.