September 9, 2008

View of the day-Everything started and warming up to get unloaded as Al & Kim finish their morning conference.

A really early day for Marilyn...up to have coffee in the house before everyone was off to school and work at 8am. Al got the trucks started then we got the combine unloaded just as our company for the day showed up.

We were lucky to have a visit from Ron Petrie, a columnist from the Regina Leader Post newspaper. Along with his regular column...a damn funny one, at that...he does a weekly story about life in Saskatchewan. It was time for his annual story about the harvest in Saskatchewan and decided to come out and spend the day learning about the custom harvesters life. It was a great day and hopefully he will be kind...we hardly yelled at each other at all...while he was here. He was nice enough to take us out for lunch before we got the rest of the equipment unloaded and moved out to the canola field.

We did a test and the canola was dry enough to go, so Marilyn got started right in making dust as Ron rode along learning about the harvest life...probably more than he wanted to know. After taking a few pictures, he went with Al to the bin to unload a truck full of canola...Al was impressed with the way a "city folk" was able to line him up to the auger.

We kept going on the canola as it got dryer as the day turned into night when we were finally able to get the field finished. We weren't able to get the combine calibrated right away so we can't say what the yield was for sure, but it was close to 45 bu/ac...pretty good.

A great day with no rain...