July 1-Happy Canada Day!

View of the day-Occupants at the Brit Spaugh Zoo trying to hide.

Yet another day of cloudy humid weather. We are on the edge of the weather system that is dumping massive amounts of rain to SE Kansas and E Oklahoma. It seems we are just far enough from the rain, but still close enough to suffer from the fringe effects. The forecast has been saying we are going to be in the mid 90's, but they told us that was what we would get last week and look where we are, in the 70's and low 80's.

There was no rush to get out to the field, but we still had to haul the last bit of grain to the elevator and move the tractor and grain cart to the next field where the combine was waiting, Once we got moved, it was just another day of fixing little things on the combine and grain truck. We did try a sample at 5pm, but it was 17.3% so we knew it wouldn't be getting any better, even if the sun came out. We went back into Great Bend and decided to take a stroll through the zoo, but the hours were only til 4:30. The gate was open a bit, so we went in, but the "guards" were putting the inmates away, and chasing the rest of us out the gate.

While we were sitting at the park, Al noticed an antifreeze leak in the pickup truck, and discovered the water pump will probably need to be replaced tomorrow..what next?

Since there was no cutting, we headed back to the camper and got ready for the Sunday night TV "Ice Road Truckers" on the History Channel. We just got through the "Deadliest Catch" crab fishing marathon, and now they come up with this one.

Our job doesn't seem so bad...