August 1

View of the day-All that's left in the campground on laundry day.

A new month and we woke up to the sound of thunder at 7:00am, just what we didn't want to hear. It started to rain shortly after and we ended up getting .55 inches of rain-just enough to screw up combining for the day.

We thought we might as well do laundry, apparently the same idea that the remaining harvesters in town had. Our campground has a washer and dryer in the shower house, but since the wind was huffing, we passed on the dryer (it doesn't heat anyway). When you are used to using 5 washers and getting done in a couple of hours, one machine takes a lot longer...just like home.

We did a couple of small jobs on the combine. Putting a new belt on the pickup head, which required bolting all the pickup teeth on to it. We made a couple of brackets to keep the dust caps on the back wheel hubs and changed out a couple of worn bushings on one of the shaker arms.

With the wind blowing and the temperatures in the high 80's we actually decided to try a test around 4:30pm. It tested 15% moisture, so combining was out...hey, we can dream, can't we? The elevator wasn't getting any wheat in from anywhere else that was dry either, so it wasn't just us. With only 60 acres to go, the end seems so close, yet so far, especially when you can't get rolling.

And, they are looking for us up the road...