August 18, 2008

View of the day-Al gets to pick up wheat swaths by the sunflower field.

Al got up extra early and took the combine over to the welding shop to get fixed. They burned the bearings off...even had the right size new ones to put back on...and took the front roller off, straightened it on the press then put everything back together.

We moved it back out to the field and started to get the rest of it put back together. What a time to have 90 degree heat and no wind...a cooker to work in, but we managed to get all the pieces back where they belonged, relaced the pickup belts and got combining around 2pm.

We finished the next piece then moved onto the last 80 acres on the south field. Marilyn made a few rounds until Al came back from the elevator, then went into town while Al filled everything up for the night since the elevator had closed at 7pm.

Back at the camper, Marilyn was able to catch up by phone with a couple of theatre friends from home to find out how the first Shakespeare in the Park went...depressing that she missed it. Her sister and family were online chatting from their hotel in Rapid City, SD where they are taking their last holiday before school/harvest...too bad they are going back west through Wyoming and won't be stopping to visit us.

The swather had just finished on the last field as we were finishing the first piece, so we are catching up to him. Al said if we hadn't had the breakdown to hold us up, we would have had to wait anyway.

He would have rather waited it out in the cool camper...