View of the day-Al dumping the last load of the day at the Gettysburg elevator...the wet stuff had to go in a bin and not on the pile.
Al was a gentleman and got up early to fuel and service the combine then came back to the camper to kill some time before we could go out and see if the wheat was any drier than yesterday.
It was another hot sunny day, but this time we didn't have a lot of wind helping dry things down...and it was mighty humid...another item that was not any help to the grain or the trucker. We went to the sale barn for lunch then went up to the other field where the cart had been left. Al drove the cart back to the combine and Marilyn did a test. It hadn't dried down a lot.
The elevator said if it was around 15% they would take it, but didn't want anything higher. The grain looked plenty dry...no green heads, but the pigeon grass that had sprung up was causing all kinds of grief by raising the moisture and making for slow unloading of the combine. There were also small corn plants about 8 inches tall that were making everything sticky and they weren't helping the moisture either.
We had a couple of loads that were over 15%, but since they didn't chase Al out, we just kept going so we could finish the small patch that we were on. Of course, once that was done, we did a little more...just to finish off the truck load.
When we had gone out to do the test Marilyn had thought she would be able to go back to the camper to get her snack sack and coffee while Al combined for a bit, but things were going so good that she stayed in the combine and got Al to at least bring out her small thermos of coffee. He gave her the thermos as she was unloading the combine and after she took a short 'walk' around the combine got back in and continued combining...forgetting about the thermos...which is still missing. It is a real shame because she finally got the John Deere logo scratched off it.
We finished filling the truck around 7:30pm then after Al dumped it, we went to the Firehouse for supper...a nice change.
Tomorrow the search for the thermos is on...
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