July 23, 2009

View of the day-Al's new toy, a 1/16 Kinze grain cart...nice details.

Al was up early to seek out our farmer and to check out some of the fields. Marilyn was up early too, waiting for the 'sometime this morning' visit from the phone/internet/cable TV guy.

Al finished his visit then went over to the campground office to pick up the toys he had ordered that were delivered there. Marilyn was helping with the rewiring of the camper so we could get cable TV with our internet/phone this year...Gettysburg is the worst place to try and aim a dish, and this way we would get local news and weather. We also decided to take some of the HD channels to see how they looked on the new TV...it will be hard to go back to the old way after this.

We needed to unload, but since there was no rush, we put it off for the cool of the evening. We met our farmer for lunch at the cattle sale barn...the usual restaurant we used to frequent had a fire in the fall and wouldn't be opening again, so we had to find a new place...so far, so good. After lunch we stopped in to visit the girls at our bank then went back to the camper to take it easy...after all we did combine for three days and spent tow moving...very taxing.

We went out to the trailers which were parked behind the motel on some grass and started unloading...it goes so much quicker that loading. Our other farmer had an empty lot behind his house that he told us we could use, about 4 blocks from where the trailers were. As we got stuff unloaded, we took them over to the lot with the intention of leaving the trailers where they were sitting.

Al moved the cart and Freight over and Marilyn was moving the combine over when a gentleman walked up to talk to Al. Marilyn continued on and decided to walk back to the lot after parking the combine by the other rigs...knowing full well that by taking the shortcut between the bins, Al would be going past and miss her on the way back...and he did. Fortunately the General was still sitting there waiting to get moved so she drove it over to the parking spot to meet Al. The man he was talking to was the owner of the motel, a very friendly gent who allowed us to leave the trailers where they were...a relief.

Our other farmer dropped in just as we were calling it a day to let us know they had combined some and it was testing dry, so we might be good to go in another field for him tomorrow.

There goes the Walmart trip to Pierre...