Car cruiser night in Brandon Manitoba.

On arriving in Brandon this afternoon we heard there was a car show along Rosser St. the main drag in downtown Brandon.  We didn't get down there until around 9pm and they where just starting to pack up and leave, got a few photos anyway.

They have this show the first Thursday of the month through the summer

This old Plymouth was original and in wonderful condition not sure its age, from the 40s perhaps.

Couple of old Fords and a custom car.

Again don't know what this is, but the license plate is 53 BABY would that be 1953 I wonder?

The stars of the show An E-Type Jag. coupe, in its roadster form the most beautiful car ever made, the coupe version not quite as pretty, this from the early to mid 60s.

The black number in the centre is a MG TC from the late 40s and the red one a MG TD from the early 50s with suspect wheels, in its original state it had steel wheels.

Just caught this custom car leaving, passing by a souped up Beatle.

Lovely condition pick up by the side of another  Beatle which looks original.

Now this, I think, is the typical cruising car. What young lady could resist going for a drive in this? the love bug just doesn't do it.

Hello from the flooded prairies of Saskatchewan

We have had 6 days of heavy rain, for 2 days we couldn't leave the trailer as the water completely surrounded the trailer.

On Saturday morning one of the men from the camping put a pallet down and we where able to go into Indian Head to buy a few things at the store.

Monday Ruth decided the laundry had to be done no matter the weather, donned shorts and flip flops and waded through the water , intrepid Yorkshire lass that she is.

Tuesday morning no rain, the sun is shining the wind has dropped to a gentle breeze and best of all, we have wifi again and also our first casualty of the storm, a Cedar Waxwing, poor thing not sure what the problem is maybe it will recover and fly on, time will tell.

Ruth off to walk into town and I decide to wander round the campground, what a mess feel for the owners, when this lot eventually goes down they will have a mega job cleaning up.

Couple of brighter photos lumber cart, that doesn't look the worse for wear.

One of the grain tours which we can see from the campground.

Ruth back from her walk - the gas station has no gas and as all the roads around Indian Head are closed because of the water- no deliveries.  Also the hardware store has run out of Wellies.

I think we will be here for a couple more days, let every thing get back to normal before we move on.

Old cars, tractors, grain elevators and other wonders of the prairies.

                                                                       We arrived here in Indian Head around noon last Sunday to discover the town was hosting a classic car show, after a quick lunch we headed into to town to look at the old cars.
                                                                             

A small Farmall tractor, not sure the age, late 40s early 50s at a guise. Beautifully restored. 

Mercury Rideau from the mid 50s

Now this car I remember, Pontiac Laurentian from the mid 60s, I had a friend who had one of these, you didn't get car sick when traveling in it , you got sea sick, it was like sailing in a small boat on a rough sea.

Mystery bird of the day.

Fargo pick up from the mid 50s.

The grain elevator at Sintaluta a few kilomtres east of Indian Head.

One of the elevators at Indian Head, not sure whether the truck is unloading grain to be stored or loading up to take the grain across the tracks to the ugly elevator. Photo on the left showing a rail wagon being loaded with grain. The 2 trucks when they left crossed the tracks and parked at this elevator.

Old plow, fancy sitting on that for a working day, I bet those old farmers had back problems when they got old. You see these everywhere.

Lark Sparrow another first sighting.

We are now in LeBret a few kilomtres up the Qu'Appelle Valley from Indian Head. The missionary's first passed through here in 1864 and set up the first Mission in 1865. The church was built in 1925.

Father Hugogard with a couple of First Nation children, this became the main centre for First Nation and Metis worship in eastern Saskatchewan.

The first thing you see on entering the village.

Mission Lake taken from the church.