July 27

View of the day-Marilyn praying to the God of electricity to get the truck and trailer lights operational.

Today was a fix it kind of day. Al took one of the tires off the tractor/grain cart trailer to get replaced, then we started in on trying to get all the lights working.

One of the trailer's lighting cable had four splices in it, so after redoing all the bad connections, we decided to just go and buy another 15 foot piece of 7 wire cord and rewire to the first splice. Talk about a "make work" project. The other trailer had no juice going to one of the signal lights, that problem came from the plug on the grain truck missing a couple of wires. By 6pm we had everything lit up like a Christmas tree, we just hope the rough roads don't jiggle something loose.

We drove past the field we had parked the combine in and the farmer had about 1/3 of it swathed. He had finished the first field and moved over around 3pm, so he was making good time. The weeds weren't as bad in the second field so hopefully we will be able to start in on Sunday.

We only have pickup work left to do, so we will be moving the tractor/grain cart and header up to Sterling, North Dakota tomorrow. With the truck and cart out of commission for the rest of the SD harvest, hopefully Al will be able to keep up with the hauling with only one truck. The field is only one mile from town, and in the past the elevator has even sent one of it's big trucks out for us to fill on a Sunday.

The cell phones are ringing with people looking for harvesters in ND and even in Saskatchewan. It seems too early in the season to be thinking about getting back into Canada.

After all, it's still only July...