October 23

View of the day-Al unloading sunflowers into the truck in the yard.

Your eyes do not deceive you...we actually combined today!

The truck was still full of sunflowers from the 30 acres we did way back when, last week and the auger was still set up at another bin that was getting loaded with corn. Al went out and combined a hopper full while he was waiting for Todd, the farmer, to move the auger to our sunflower bin. Once the combine was full he came over to help Todd move the auger so we could finally get rolling.

Marilyn cleaned out the cab of the General, removing the remnants the mice had left behind. Al's trap line count is 3 dead mice so far and Marilyn laid out a few more traps after leaving the truck for the day...a lot of paper towel had been shredded for bedding for the little varmints.

There were wind advisories all day and they were well deserved because it blew hard until after the sun set. At least the wind was able to keep the dust on the combine to a minimum so we didn't have any fires trying to start. Marilyn unloaded the truck and took it out to the field for Al to fill and then got to call it a night...ahhh...the life of a truck driver.

We added a short video clip of the sunflower combining...in case you never seen it...