View of the day-Al dumping at the elevator in Gettysburg, those four bins hold 432,000 bushels.
We knew it would be a "super-do-nothing" day, so Al got to sleep in for a change....after being roused at 6:15am by a phone call from the farmer. Apparently he doesn't know the 8am rule that Al has...
We went out for lunch, fighting the church crowd, then we drove south of town to see what condition one of the fields we had to do was in. The farmer had told Al that the rain was fairly spotty, there was even combining going on at the five mile corner west of town and a farmer south told him they had only gotten .30 inches. Out at the field we discovered a lot of green growth peeking over the wheat so Al went out to visit with the farmers, and they were tossing around the idea of swathing the crops.
It seemed like Al was able to convince them it would be a good idea, so that meant we would be making a road trip up to Carlyle, SK to get our pickup head. We spent some time trying to decide if we should go early in the morning or leave today...it was already getting late in the day...so we hooked up the header trailer, packed a bag and hit the road, around 7:30pm.
We knew it would be a "super-do-nothing" day, so Al got to sleep in for a change....after being roused at 6:15am by a phone call from the farmer. Apparently he doesn't know the 8am rule that Al has...
We went out for lunch, fighting the church crowd, then we drove south of town to see what condition one of the fields we had to do was in. The farmer had told Al that the rain was fairly spotty, there was even combining going on at the five mile corner west of town and a farmer south told him they had only gotten .30 inches. Out at the field we discovered a lot of green growth peeking over the wheat so Al went out to visit with the farmers, and they were tossing around the idea of swathing the crops.
It seemed like Al was able to convince them it would be a good idea, so that meant we would be making a road trip up to Carlyle, SK to get our pickup head. We spent some time trying to decide if we should go early in the morning or leave today...it was already getting late in the day...so we hooked up the header trailer, packed a bag and hit the road, around 7:30pm.
We aimed for Minot, stopping in Sterling, ND to grab a coffee for the road. There, we had a chat with Gerry, the harvester from home that had been in Hoven for a while...they hadn't had as much rain, but it was enough to slow them up too, so Lynn had a chance to go back home for her grandson's first birthday.
We watched the lightning all the way to Minot and passed through a couple of rain showers. There are severe weather warnings to the north, but it looks like Gettysburg missed all the showers today.
Tomorrow we get back into Canada...
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