October 6

View of the day-A couple of soldiers hide from the rain as they wait for next year's harvest.

We went to sleep with the rain falling and woke up to the same thing. Looking out the front window across the field where our "gauge trees" are, they are the ones we use to check the visibility, it was so low it almost looked like snow...but it wasn't. It actually rained all day, we're not sure how much...our rain gauge has disappeared.

Al went out to an auction sale, while Marilyn continued unpacking and made quite a bit of headway...you can see the kitchen floor and counter now...where did all that stuff fit in the camper? Al has a "no way" list he usually compiles at the end of the season where he makes a note of the things that are returned back to their spot in the house. If they didn't see the light of day during the harvest season..."no way are they coming next year". Marilyn had managed to pack a little lighter, which is strange since the campers keep getting bigger, her theory now is "if I need it, I'll just buy it"...that doesn't make Al any happier, it still needs to get unpacked at the end of the season.

An what about packing to go back to do sunflowers? We don't take the camper...the farmer's mother takes extra special care of us...she even renovated our room for us last year. Marilyn struggles to "pack light", you never know what you might need...of course, there's always the "buy it" thing...

Marilyn went into town to do some shopping, but her purse had managed to get left in the pickup, which Al had...coincidence...perhaps not. He had gone out to check on a place to park our trailers and grain cart for the winter just east of town a way. We did meet for supper to check out the new Asian buffet that had just opened in Yorkton...not as good as our old standby, the Hong Kong House, and no where near the buffets we have frequented in the USA, but we tried it and it is off our list.

Al decided not to go to the hockey game in Melville...a good choice. His Terriers lost 3-0. Back at home, with the dish not set up yet, Al had to listen to the baseball playoffs on the satellite radio, which conveniently is set up where he could lie down to enjoy the game in comfort. Marilyn did check her eyelids for cracks for a short while and by the time she got up off the couch it was pretty much time to go to bed. She was going to make a beeline to the bed so she wouldn't lose that "still half asleep" feeling, when Al said "what about the blog?"

Oh yeah...that little item...