June 20, 2009

View of the day-Following the cart as we move to another field...and right into the heavy rain.

We woke up to the sound of heavy falling rain...an inch of it, and were glad we finished the field last night. After calling around to see what some of the other amounts that fell were, we figured there was no sense in trying to get out to the farm to move the equipment...anywhere from 1/2 to an inch.

We went out to bring the Freight and shop trailer in from where they had been sitting the past couple of days. The 1/2 mile out to that field was well graveled so we weren't worried about the road condition. After bringing them back to town, Al decided to get one of the tires replaced on the grain truck since the tire shop was still open.

After parking everything we figured the wind and heat would have dried up the road to the combine enough that we would be able to start moving the 15 or so miles out to the next field. We moved the grain cart to town and parked it by the grain truck, then went back out for the combine and header. Once we got those into Carmen, we took the combine and grain cart and started our drive...pavement most of the way, but very rough. Once we got out to the field, the farmer gave us a ride back for the grain truck and header.

We had been watching the clouds dumping in isolated areas all the while we were moving and we were glad the the big one we were headed into moved to the NE. What we didn't realise was that while we were watching that one, another one was sneaking up from the south and as we drove back to Carmen it just dumped on us. By the time we got there it had let up a bit and had all but quit by the time we got back to Cherokee.

We had changed our plans of taking them out to the field where the combine was and just going home with them and then taking them out when we were to start combining. We figured it was a good night for Pizza Hut and while we were in there another round of downpours hit...it wasn't looking good.

We got back to the camper and decided to watch the movie Slap Shot...good old time hockey...and by the time that was over it was 11:45...and the blog hadn't been tackled. This not having internet in the camper is a pain...

All this rain can only mean one thing...yep...Walmart...