September 12, 2008

View of the day-Al get a turn at picking up organic wheat swaths near Kisbey.

This crack of dawn stuff is getting kind of tiring...

We moved the combine back to the yard to fuel it up and give it a good cleaning before we moved to start combining organic wheat. After Al got the General unloaded, we moved 20 miles west to the field with the combine and shop trailer. We went back to Carlyle, had some lunch then moved the General over to the combine to start on the wheat. There must have been a lot of Riders fans on the road...lots of waving and blowing of horns.

The wheat was plenty dry so we were able to start right in. It wasn't yielding near as good as the barley...that was to be expected...so Al got a pretty good break to read the paper and listen to the radio...probably fit a nap in there somewhere too. Al gave Marilyn a break for a couple of hoppers so she could regenerate and continue combining while he unloaded at the bin. We got the bin almost full, but Al didn't want to top it off in the dark, so we quit for the night.

We drove back to the farm where the camper was and discovered Marilyn's brother had ridden his Harley over from Avonlea to help Kim out for the weekend. He got a crash course in combine driving and will probably not be allowed to go home until Kim is finished...if Marg has her way.

Slight chance of rain in the morning...