June 29, 2009

View of the day-Clouds were building all day but stayed to the south of us...someone got it.

Al was up early to take the General to the tire shop where they found a shingle nail in the tire that was giving him grief. He brought the truck back to the camper then we went to get fuel and breakfast before going out to the field.

It was another great day for combining, temps in the low 90's and a good wind, but not a great day for the wildlife. Al spotted a bobcat running across the road about 20 feet in front of the truck on one of his loads to the elevator and Marilyn spent the afternoon chasing two coyote pups through the wheat. Unfortunately one of them is minus an ear and he just kept coming back into the standing grain to hide. It didn't matter which way Marilyn combined or blew the horn, the little bugger stayed just in front of the header. After the field was combined it did take off towards the grass but had to lay down a few times...don't know if he ever made it but the buzzards were hovering around quite a bit. We often see the pups, but have yet to see the adults...

We got the field finished then moved catty-corner to the next field which was one we hadn't combined before...lots of terraces, which were the first thing to get cut just in case we went late and wanted to avoid digging the header into the ground. Al was able to keep up a bit better on this field since it was only running about 35 on the top few terraces but tomorrow we will get into the thicker wheat down on the bottom.

There seems to be so much more to relate, but by the time we get back in and cleaned up it's almost midnight by the time we can get the upload done...and morning comes so darn fast...

No rain in the forecast...we can see the light at the end of the tunnel...