August 30

View of the day-Straight cutting barley near Carlyle under the watch of a pump jack.

Up early and out to the field to service and unload a truck. Marilyn started combining at 10:30am and didn't stop until 8:30pm, when the straw and rocks were creating havoc with the header. Al kept busy and itchy all day hauling barley to the farmers flat storage.

The barley was dry enough and was running about 57 bu/ac. The field was dotted with several slough and bush patches so productivity was down and we only covered about 80 acres. By the time Marilyn had made three rounds around a slough, it connected to another one and the same thing occurred making a chain of combined circles. This left a lot of little pie shaped pieces that meant more turning than cutting.

Once we quit for the day, we headed back to the camper and as we pulled up, Marilyn noticed a HUGE spider spinning a web under the bedroom slide-out. Al went directly to kill it but Marilyn insisted on getting a shot of it before sending it to the big web in the sky.

It's included with this entry, just so we are not the only one having bad dreams...