Awake: 5:35am Temp 59 sleep 6+12 cloudy overnight @ the
Oskar Stoll farm
We are invited for a 9:30 breakfast with the Swiss group which was very
healthy. Afterward, I ask Oskar if I might use a large pail so I can clean
our windshield & the front cap of our motorhome. The job doesn’t take very
long so I clean our mirrors also.
@ 10:00 am we 7 visit another couple of Oskar’s farming friends: Joseph &
his wife Raynata (sp) from Austria. Joseph is very busy having last yr’s
canola crop taken from his storage bins & loaded into large semi-trucks
for processing. So Raynata makes us comfortable by showing us her bumper
crop of crab apples & choke cherry trees in the back yard. The crab
apples were unbelievably delicious.
Next, we are invited onto the front porch where we are first served aged
and new choke cherry schnapps; we are then offered coffee or tea, dried
meat, raw bacon, bread & hamburger meat. Raynata entertained us for over
an hr with her stories of running the family’s hotel business in Austria.
Even though I don’t understand German, often someone from our group would
translate & keep us informed. Raynata is a gracious lady; she couldn’t do
enough for us during that visit. They have a son, a daughter-in-law & new
grandson in Roblin who own & operate a café…. & that is our next
destination for lunch.
The Station Café is an old passenger train station in town that their son
bought, then converted into a restaurant & living quarter above…..leaving
some of the railroad switching & communication systems hooked up inside to
keep the charm lingering. He also is using geothermal heating & cooling in
this building which I thought is wonderful.
I really enjoyed my lunch: German Goulash. Oskar treated us all. After
lunch, the girls go on a shopping spree, the guys ride over to the Ford
dealer where Oskar picks up his Taurus & he & I return to his farm with
the rest of the gang not too far behind us.
With some free time before dinner & using 2 pails of water, I wash the
dust off of our slide tops & then retract them for travel tomorrow.
7:30 dinner: 1st the white wine, then the red wine with dinner. We had the
remainder of the sirloin steak, spinach salad, bread & Kathy’s chicken
salad. This was our going home dinner. We have really enjoyed hanging out
with these people. We have renewed our friendship with Myrta & Rene with
whom we have exchanged rendezvousing many times; we have gotten to know
Monica & Bernhard much better & we like them more than ever now. And
Oskar, he is special to me because we are nearly the same age & he likes
airplanes? Well ok, maybe he is a few yrs older but he is still a special
fellow in my book. We sit in the kitchen & talk about many things, good &
not so good, until after 10:15pm….then we say our goodbyes with hopes of
seeing each other again soon.
Now they have to winterize Oskar’s house, do housecleaning, take showers,
pack, etc. We have little to do tonight rather than tomorrow as we plan on
a somewhat early departure.
As we are walking the 75 ft to our motorhome, we casually notice a few
dark clouds in the western sky. Local word is: it might rain tonight. Some
farmers are running their combines all evening until maybe 2:00am to avoid
having a wet crop.
High temp=83 Lights out: 11:10pm
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