Prairie Christmas tradition: decorating the tractor

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Just off Cambie Street there's a sight to warm a Prairie boy's heart – the traditional Christmas lights on the tractor.

Why, I can still remember the Christmas when Uncle Elmer got all liquored-up and decided to put the lights on the the Massey Ferguson on a particularly moonless night during a snowstorm. Turned out, not only was corn whiskey a good conductor of electricity but it's effects could render a person insensible to electrocution. That was our "Christmas by candlelight."

You may think there's not a word of truth in that story but remember, Prairie folks do not lie, at least not about the weather – it really was snowing. Click the image to enlarge it.
We've seen this tractor before
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