Yet another early morning, this time the last one in Carlyle for a while. Al had to boost the Freightliner...she doesn't like the cool weather...and leaving the music radio on didn't help either. Marilyn got the camper almost ready to go, but needed help from Al to get two of the slides in, then we were off to Esterhazy.
We got up to the farm, got the camper parked and plugged in, then got the tractor/cart and truck unloaded and moved over to the field. After servicing the combine, Marilyn got to start back in to the barley while Al got to unload a truck...something he would be spending a lot of time doing since the barley was running 70-75 bu/ac. With almost a mile run, there was no way Marilyn could make it up and back without being full, so it took some trial and error to find the optimum place to spot the cart. By dumping every time she passed, there wasn't a lot of deadheading to the cart.
Not a good day for batteries, first the Freightliner, then when we went to leave the field, the pickup wouldn't start. The car didn't have enough juice to boost the pickup so we had to enlist the combine to help out and we finally got it running...there's one rig that will have the battery charger on all night. And back in the camper the batteries were dead in the remote control, mouse and toothbrush...change of atmosphere, perhaps?
The weather is looking good for the weekend so tomorrow should be a good day...today was an 85 acre day, which was pretty good considering we had to move. Of course, we know not to trust the weekend weather forecasts...
And we have high speed internet...mmm...
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