August 9

View of the day-Children of the corn...not for several years. The corn at the campground in Menoken.

Up bright and early to get the camper closed up and ready to move north. Al got his daily journals returned when Tom and Suzanne stopped in on their way back to Fargo from Mandan.

We stopped in Sterling to get the Freight with tractor and cart, have a bit of breakfast and then make our way to Tuttle. It was a short and uneventful trip, no wind to speak of, which didn't help us at all when we got to our destination and started to unload the combine.

We got the camper moved to it's home for the next week or so, and after getting the A/C working we went to see if the local mechanic could check the alternator out on the tractor. We were having problems with the tractor not charging the batteries, so we were having to constantly boost it. We didn't unload it at Menoken, so at that time it wasn't too big a deal because we didn't have to use it. But if the barley yield is high, we may need it to keep up.

After getting the combine unloaded and the settings changed for barley, we moved it out to the farmer's yard, but since they had gotten almost an inch of rain yesterday, we were pretty sure it wouldn't go. We stopped at the local bar for lunch and then went back to the camper to wait for the phone guy to show up and get us on line, since the cell service is pretty poor out this way. If he can't get us hooked up, we have to make a run into Steele, about 25 miles south, to post this entry.

Which we did...