October 4

View of the day-The seeds are all that is left on the tree after the wind has taken the leaves.

Another early day, while Al went to town to get a new fan clutch for the pickup...and get out of unloading bags...Marilyn had the job of doing a thorough cleaning of the camper. With everything out of it, it was just a matter of steam cleaning the carpets, then draining all the tanks and running the antifreeze through the lines. Al made it back in time to help with that much anyway. The weather was so nice today that with the windows open in the camper the rugs were dry in no time.

Al did a bit of cleaning in the shop trailer, trying to figure out what tools we would be taking with us, since the shop trailer will be staying at home. We don't have to make a back haul because we are only taking one grain truck, the combine and the sunflower header back to North Dakota.

We shut down the unpacking early due to the fact that Al had to work at the community bingo for the Yorkton Terriers hockey club. Marilyn decided to keep him company and help the team make a bit of money by playing bingo while he worked. It turned out to be worth while...spent $40 on cards and came out of the hall with $80...that's a change. Since we didn't have time to dine before we went to bingo, we stopped and spent some of the winnings on some fine dining after Al had helped finish cleaning up the hall.

Tomorrow we go to Stockholm to clean the combine off, change the concaves, and do a few more things to get ready to forge south again on Sunday. We plan on getting to Carlyle on Sunday then leave from there on Monday for Pingree, ND.

Of course, that's the latest plan...