July 26

View of the day-Sunflower season!

We woke up to the sound of rain, which continued off and on until after lunch. Not much accumulated, but it was enough to shut things down for the day. We sat around watching TV and messing around online, then decided to take a run into Pierre, about 50 miles SW.

There were a lot of spring wheat fields along the way that looked like they were getting ripe enough to cut. There were a few crews parked in the fields and some were loaded and ready to move north. We picked up some parts at Runnings, had supper then Al dropped Marilyn off at the door of WalMart, while he waited in the parking lot watching his portable mini TV.

Just as Marilyn grabbed her cart and breathed the first whiff of WalMart air, she ran into another harvester they had last seen in Oklahoma. He was combining about 90 miles west of Gettysburg, and they had gotten 4.8 inches of rain last night. They only had 190 acres left and would have finished it today, but that dang rain. He was on his way out with a cart full of goods, so he hunted Al down in the parking lot and had a good gab, catching up with all that had happened with his harvest season.

The front has passed and now we are in the clear for rain for the next while, that should dry things down. We will kill some more time fixing a few things and maybe move the tractor/grain cart and straight header up to North Dakota, since the rest of our work here only requires the pick-up head.

As long as the rest of the wheat gets swathed soon...