明报专讯/缅尼托巴省农民为表诚意，以5小时在32英亩农地上，利用卫星定位仪、拖拉机、耕作机制作求婚宣言。女友芳心被打动，应承下嫁，故事被传为佳话。
多克森(Joel Doerksen)想给女友金特(Christine Ginter)一个惊喜，用浪漫的方式向她求婚，但他不愿采用老套的烛光、巧克力和鲜花。所以当他田地上的庄稼收割完后，他用一个全球定位系统(GPS)，在32英亩的田农巧妙做出他的求婚图案。他的田地位于温尼辟东南50公里的斯坦巴克(Steinbach)。
多克森本周稍早时对加拿大广播公司新闻(CBC News)说：“那是一片收割后的油菜籽残株，我开□拖拉机和耕作机，在田地上开垦求婚宣言。”
他将油菜籽残株弄成“克里斯廷，妳愿意嫁我吗？”(Christine Will You Marry Me?)的图案(见图)。
经过5个小时的努力，多克森完成了这幅巨大图案。然后他安排朋友驾驶一架小型飞机，与女友金特一起飞上天空。当金特看见这图案时，多克森掏出了求婚戒指。
任职发型师的金特说，这个计划成为所有人的话题。她说：“他们真的都很吃惊。我给他们看照片时，他们都张大了嘴巴。所有的同事，都给他们的顾客看这照片，而顾客们都惊讶不已。”
两人计划明年春天结婚。
Farmer carves 32-hectare marriage proposal into canola field
It took five hours, a tractor and a plane to pop the question
Last Updated: Thursday, October 11, 2007 | 11:04 AM CT
CBC News
A farmer in southern Manitoba spent hours in the fields during the harvest devising a unique way to propose to his girlfriend — and his plan yielded a “yes” from his surprised darling.
Joel Doerksen wanted to woo girlfriend Christine Ginter with a romantic proposal, but he didn’t want the usual candles, chocolates and flowers.
So once the crop was off his fields near Steinbach, Man., 50 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg, he headed out back out with a GPS system to get to work on a 32-hectare marriage proposal.
“It was on some canola stubble, and I took our tractor and cultivator and I cultivated the message into the field,” he told CBC News earlier this week.
After five hours of work in the field, Doerksen then arranged to take a ride with Ginter over the area in a friend’s small plane. When she noticed the message, he whipped out the ring.
It took Joel Doerksen about five hours to carve the giant letters into his 32-acre field.
(Joel Doerksen)
Doerksen got out the ring as a friend flew the couple over the field near Steinbach, Man.
(Joel Doerksen)
Ginter, a hairdresser, said the scheme has everyone talking.
“They’re quite amazed at it, actually. I show them the picture, their jaws usually drop a little bit,” she said.
“All my co-workers here at the salon are showing all their clients the pictures, and they’re all amazed.”
The couple is planning a wedding for next spring.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/10/11/field-proposal.html
