August 12, 2008

View of the day-Canola swaths in central North Dakota...mighty fluffy looking.

We were up early and off to the U.S. border to make our way back to Gettysburg. It took us five minutes to clear the crossing...a familiar face behind the desk made things go a lot smoother...thank goodness.

We stopped in Kenmare for a snack, then drove to Tuttle where we parked the header so we could take a side trip to Pingree for a visit. We stopped at Robinson on the way to check in with one of our farmers there and that's where we saw the canola. The trip to Pingree was an extra 150 miles, but we knew we wouldn't have a lot to do in Gettysburg and we hadn't been out that way since we came back in early May. The crops looked pretty good considering they weren't getting the rain that we were here in the Burg.

After we had a visit then picked up of some more toys that had been sent to Mike's, we stopped at the 281 Stop for supper before coming back to Gettysburg.

On the way back, Marilyn got a call on her cell from the theatre group back at Yorkton who were using our tent for their "Shakespeare in the Park" performances this Saturday. Unfortunately we were going through the "hills of no signal" so it took quite a while to get the instructions translated over several dropped calls...since they hadn't picked up the "cheat sheet" with the construction info when they picked up the tent. We had only set it up once so the memory was a bit fuzzy...but they figured it out. Let's hope they don't get any wind that day.

We made it back to Gettysburg just before midnight and checked the messages that were on the phone, and it seems our farmer might not swath after all...just spray chemical on the weeds to kill them...which means we don't need the pickup head after all.

Maybe...