Jube in Chilliwack

HA HA I figured how that town got it name.You had to be wacked to live there because it got so chilly.LOL :)
Looks like it may be a good deal if even for parts or scrap.
 
With backhoe and blade. It's almost less than scrap value. And that's in Can$.
Wish my truck was working. Wish I had a trailer. Wish I had a million $. :)
 
Might be worth the trip if I knew how to get it through customs.
Haven't BTDT. Yet. :lol:
 
I was in Chilliwack in the mid 80s I really
liked it a bunch. It is outstanding in its ag
related products .Its growing season is longer
then a lot of the US states where in the grain
belt corn is planted in about May 5th give or take some days.Chilliwack
you can plant corn and tomato sets about the
5th or 6th of Apr. It sits among the Canadian
Rockies and is kept in its abundant growing
zone by a warm ocean current that makes it an
ideal growing area for ag crops and cattle. I
looked this part up lowest temp ever recorded
was -21F and highest 100F I was there in Sept
and it was great. -21 to alot of us would be
good. I bet Dell has been there.
 
I went to Lynden (WA, just across the border from Chilliwack) a year ago to buy an old Montgomery Ward rototiller. No trouble either way. May be a long trip.
 
We really liked Chilliwack. But we only had a townhouse there and up here in Prince George we have 5 treed acres. That's why I'm looking at tractors - so we can turn a couple of them into a garden. Right now it's about 32 - 2 weeks ago it was -27. Much shorter growing season - and weak(?) soil.
 
Even wackier, there's a B.C. town called Kamloops . . . when I meet people from there or people talking about it I always get a smile with:

"Kamloops! I always thought that was a mechanic's breakfast cereal or a mechanic's engine diagnosis."
"Sorry maam, but your car has Kamloops."

You Canucks will know the rock group Chilliwack . . .
Well in the winter of 1971 bill Henderson, the leader, asked me to play a concert with him here on the island and I did. Stick drums! Claire Lawrence of Chilliwack played bass with us. Bill and May, his wife, moved back to the mainland for several years but now they're back on the island and about 3/4 of a mile from me. Bill plays the Fall fair every year and I'll probably play with him next fair, but using my 5 hand drums this time. He just emailed me as to if I wanted to do some hand drum "voiceings" with him -- he plays hand drums now too.

TT
Specializing in telling you more than you needed to know. :)

And hey all my American friends,
I wonder if one of you older guys (like me) ever heard the late 60's sort-of-psychedelic tune LYDIA PURPLE? It wasn't psychedelic per se but in keeping with the times.

I really like that tune and it was by the Collectors,
who were Bill Henderson's group before
Chilliwack

I really want to know because that song is on my "should have gotten more recognition" song list.
 
Quite a ways from the 'Rockies'. Located in the Fraser Valley - in the top 10 of agriculture growing areas. I get corn and blueberries there every year. (3+ hrs -incl.Ferry ride away)
 
Ya . . . I'm really digin' into my past
I was 22 years old when I liked it most
forgot all about it till now . . . I'll add it to my url song folder practice list . . .

Thanks for the Lydia Purple link
I'll give it a go right now,
Playing bongo/Congas to it.

I was more concerned with whether Americans had ever heard of the group, The Collectors and primarily it would have been through that song.

Sorry about the copy/paste url . . .
I'm being lazy, but pray tell
how did you make that Lydia Purple hyperlink?
Turning on my HTML option would be a start :D

I know how to do it in my email program.
I use Mac.

T
 
There's a Jube in Chilliwack
For not too much jack
Don't tell Lisa
She'll put a pack on her back.

She'll get a team of grey wolves
And a sled
Make a bee line to chilli Chilliwack
She'll never have a belly full of grey and red.

:)
 
(quoted from post at 07:29:32 01/19/15) Lol!! Dang it that's a long ways away...

Somebody's got ta do it! :)

That last line didn't quite make the grade, but I was trying to work in the tractor's red belly. How about this revised edition:

There's a Jube in Chilliwack
For not too much jack
Don't tell Lisa
She'll put a pack on her back

She'll get a team of grey wolves
And a big bob sled
To save another beast of burdN
With a belly of red

T
 
L. B. .......yeah, I'b been to Chilliwack, I made a "wrong" turn to Lynden and ended up at the "border". There's a great tractor show in Lynden and the 4-H ladies sell GREAT rhubarb pie. I buy a WHOLE pie to take home. I love the way rhubarb makes my teeth squeek. (grin) Ittza 'boutta 5-hr hump from here at the foot of 14K Mt Rainier south of Tacoma. Where I grew up in Durango, Colo rhubarb was one of the few veggies that the deer wouldn't eat. (leaves are poisonous) So I'd be breakin' the stalks off'n the plant and Mom would cutt'em into 1"-chunks and slow-cooker them with summ sugar. Great on pancakes and 1-crust pies or over vanilla ice cream. Now why am I hungry? ......Durango Dell
 
(quoted from post at 23:56:38 01/19/15) L. B. .......yeah, I'b been to Chilliwack, I made a "wrong" turn to Lynden and ended up at the "border". There's a great tractor show in Lynden and the 4-H ladies sell GREAT rhubarb pie. I buy a WHOLE pie to take home. I love the way rhubarb makes my teeth squeek. (grin) Ittza 'boutta 5-hr hump from here at the foot of 14K Mt Rainier south of Tacoma. Where I grew up in Durango, Colo rhubarb was one of the few veggies that the deer wouldn't eat. (leaves are poisonous) So I'd be breakin' the stalks off'n the plant and Mom would cutt'em into 1"-chunks and slow-cooker them with summ sugar. Great on pancakes and 1-crust pies or over vanilla ice cream. Now why am I hungry? ......Durango Dell

Love rhubarb!
In the mid seventies I lived in a 100 year old house on a 160 acre farm with 60 fruit trees here on salt Spring. My landlady who was born in the old house told me one day with conviction, that RUBARB was a Spring tonic ! I always think of that when I have it.

By the way, down in the orchard, under a shed roof off the old farm shop that I worked out of, calling myself "Orchard Auto"
sat a 1930 Mccormick Deering with steel wheels. You can imagine how I now wish I had asked my Landlady to sell it to me . . . she would have probably just given it to me.

I had just started to get closer to it before I moved away. I had lubed the cylinders and was rolling it over with the front crank periodically. I'm going to find out if it maybe got donated to the Farmers institute or if it is still at the farm.

Cheers,
T
 

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