View of the day-Al doing a bit of rearranging to make room on the bridge for the grain cart trailer. He went all the way along moving them over just a bit so the trailer would make it through. They have had these things up since we arrived two weeks ago and nothing has been done...it doesn't look like there is anything wrong with the bridge...make work project.
We had a bit of a sleep in, then went out to settle up with the farmer...who had conveniently left his wife with the check book while he took the grand kids fishing up at the dam. After finishing up there, we went in to Winner to pay the fuel bill and have lunch before going back to Hamill to get ready to take the first load to Gettysburg, about 130 miles north. Al did his rearranging while Marilyn found this sunflower struggling through a crack in the pavement on the bridge over the little lake at Hamill.
The trip up was uneventful...except for the roads that are really in need of repair...no holes, just a roller coaster ride that will have the wrenches off the wall in the shop trailer tomorrow when we move with that load.
We got to Gettysburg and tried to find a new place to park everything...every year it is a crap shoot...they put bins everywhere in town these days. We decided to leave it in the parking lot by the old restaurant to unload then move the trailers somewhere else until it is time to move on. We took a short drive to check on our camping spot...which always seems to be occupied when we show up...and to check the fields...yikes...still pretty green.
After stopping for a quick pop and to pick up the latest Tractor House for Al to read and the local paper for Marilyn, we started on the return trip. Marilyn was reading the paper and was filling Al in on some of the local happenings when she got to the part that has the "this day in local history" kind of things...you know 60 years ago, 50, 40, etc. Well, 20 years ago in 1989 there was a blurb about the wall caving in on the Sunset Cafe ending it's long life as a restaurant and Al yells, "I remember that day...we went in for breakfast and when we came back from the field there was yellow 'do not cross' tape all around it!". According to him, that is another sign you have been harvesting too long...when you remember items like that from 20 years ago...his first harvest on the custom run.
We stopped to fuel up and grab a snack in Highmore and met up with our Kansas harvester friends for a short chat to catch up and feed a few mosquitoes. They had 2.5 inches of rain in 20 minutes a few days ago, so the breeding conditions for those pesky insects is perfect.
We got back to Hamill and took a cruise around town to find the big pile of trees where we park our equipment had been lit and all that was left was the glowing embers. We looped around it to see if the truck and combine were all right and...couldn't find them...the only thing there was the shop trailer. After further investigation we discovered that someone had move it onto the street to avoid it going up in flames.
Tomorrow we'll get the rest of the story...
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