July 17

View of the day-The next door neighbors making dust.

It was humid to start, and the moisture was too high to start before noon, so we got to do laundry again. What a nice change to have a laundromat with scads of magazines to occupy the time. After checking them out, we realized they were the same ones we had been reading there for the last 3 years.

We changed the fuel filter on the combine since it was losing power in the heavy grain, and once we got rolling again it seemed to fix the problem. We had to get the fuel filter from the John Deer dealer, but we have the logo turned to the back, just in case the combine should sense the alien presence. Al was kept busy with the grain hauling, between long lineups and the high yielding wheat...oh, yeah...and those pesky SDDOT officers. Once again Al got stopped while hauling a load into town, but of course he knew exactly how much he could haul and they let him go on his way.

There were a couple of test strips in the field that had been sprayed with a fungicide, and the local rep rode with Marilyn to see how it was yielding. The yield went up to 85 bu/ac and he said he had been at a field just north of where we were cutting and it went 112 bu/ac!

There weren't as many crews moving along the highway today, most of them were in the fields, and the grain trucks were a steady stream well into the night. We are camped two blocks from the elevator and that's all we hear for now. Maybe Al will get a picture of the grain that is being piled on the ground for tomorrow's "view".

Chance of rain tonight...