View of the day-A few of the elevators in Enid, OK...they hold a lot of grain!
We got to sleep in a bit since it had rained last night and it was fairly overcast this morning so we knew it wouldn't be an early start...oh, yeah...the combine needed to get fixed. Ray from ProHarvest called to let us know they had found a part and that they would have it around noon and be out shortly after.
We had an early lunch then went out to the combine to service it and the grain trucks. While we were out there it started to sprinkle, then rain, so we knew we probably wouldn't get going at all today. We went back into town and decided to go to Enid for the afternoon so Marilyn could get her WalMart fix in...after all it has been three weeks...
Al had called in to talk to the agriculture reporter at home on our local radio station and it was to be on today during his noon report. We knew we wouldn't be in the camper when the report came on the internet feed, so Marilyn hooked up her digital voice recorder to "tape" the show so we could listen to it later. Al figures Marilyn should talk to him next time, but all she sees is the inside of the combine and the beautiful landscape...no way she could be as interesting as Al is...he gets to talk to the locals in the looonng line ups, so he knows it all.
Before going shopping, we went to check out the big inland terminals in Enid...it's hard to imagine the smaller elevators would run out of room with all the space there is in those elevators. That is where the local elevators haul out to.
While Marilyn was in shopping at WalMart another round of nasty weather passed through Enid, lots of thunder, lightning and rain. A lot of the other harvesters had time on their hands and were shopping as well. Marilyn ran into a few of them in various aisles all speaking in their native tongues...she recognized the German ones at least. She finally purchased a coffee pot since she had left hers at home...now there will be some real coffee made...the coffee down here is just not strong enough, unless you grab the first run through the filter when it is being made.
Ray called to let us know the combine had been repaired and was ready for action.
If only the weather would cooperate...
We got to sleep in a bit since it had rained last night and it was fairly overcast this morning so we knew it wouldn't be an early start...oh, yeah...the combine needed to get fixed. Ray from ProHarvest called to let us know they had found a part and that they would have it around noon and be out shortly after.
We had an early lunch then went out to the combine to service it and the grain trucks. While we were out there it started to sprinkle, then rain, so we knew we probably wouldn't get going at all today. We went back into town and decided to go to Enid for the afternoon so Marilyn could get her WalMart fix in...after all it has been three weeks...
Al had called in to talk to the agriculture reporter at home on our local radio station and it was to be on today during his noon report. We knew we wouldn't be in the camper when the report came on the internet feed, so Marilyn hooked up her digital voice recorder to "tape" the show so we could listen to it later. Al figures Marilyn should talk to him next time, but all she sees is the inside of the combine and the beautiful landscape...no way she could be as interesting as Al is...he gets to talk to the locals in the looonng line ups, so he knows it all.
Before going shopping, we went to check out the big inland terminals in Enid...it's hard to imagine the smaller elevators would run out of room with all the space there is in those elevators. That is where the local elevators haul out to. While Marilyn was in shopping at WalMart another round of nasty weather passed through Enid, lots of thunder, lightning and rain. A lot of the other harvesters had time on their hands and were shopping as well. Marilyn ran into a few of them in various aisles all speaking in their native tongues...she recognized the German ones at least. She finally purchased a coffee pot since she had left hers at home...now there will be some real coffee made...the coffee down here is just not strong enough, unless you grab the first run through the filter when it is being made.
Ray called to let us know the combine had been repaired and was ready for action.
If only the weather would cooperate...
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