August 27

View of the day-The combine waiting to get it's new boot.

Over the years of harvesting we have learned a few things, one of them regarding the weather. Our TV is on the weather channel by default, it is the most important channel during harvest. We have also figured out that the weekend forecasts are conjured up by practicing "lay meteorologists" as we like to call them. Any weekend forecast given after 6pm on a Friday is not to be believed and don't even think about the seven day forecast without adding "once upon a time" in front of it.

That being said, yesterday's blog entry ended with a lapse in judgement by quoting a weekend forecast. In the early hours of the morning, the familiar sound of rain on the roof of the camper wasn't a good omen. It repeated it's wake-up call shortly after, which removed any thoughts of combining unless the sun came out.

We went into town to see if we could get the cable ordered in for the General's clutch and we met with success, only it would be a couple of days. We picked up some fuel, oil and a filter for the General then went out to visit with our farmer. She proceeded to blame us for the rain because she had been following our blog faithfully and had noticed a pattern. Every time we moved to a new place...it rained. Merely coincidence, we can assure you. Anyway, after getting directions to the barley fields we were to do, we went back out to the trailers where Al changed the oil on the General, and Marilyn polished up the Big Top hopper on the combine.

No laundromat in town, and fortunately Marilyn's sister, Marg, hasn't figured out how to but a coin box on her washer and dryer, so we got this week's laundry done. Al and Kim, Marg's husband, went out to check some fields and then joy of joys it was Monday night football...well not the "official" one, just NFL on a Monday. Marilyn helped Marg "re-hue" her hair...what a chemist...and got a little on her nephew Gordie as well(but none on herself).

So, it sprinkled off and on all day, then around 9:30pm it set in and rained steadily until the writing of this entry. No sign of let up according to the satellite radar picture.

But who do you believe anymore...