August 14, 2009

View of the day-The pile keeps getting bigger as the trucks roll in to unload before the rains hit. The bins behind the pile hold 108,000 bushels.

We knew we wouldn't be able to get going very early, so we took it easy until just before lunch. We went out and moved the header trailer from the field to the farmers yard so we could pick it up in case the predicted monsoons came. We did have showers as we drove out but it didn't amount to much. After we unhooked it in the yard, we went back to the sale barn for lunch.

Al went to the elevator to sweet talk the main man into letting us bring in a load to see if we would be able to finish the field or if the farmer had to swath it. He said to bring in one, so Al went to work trying to find some dryer wheat to combine while Marilyn drove around the field looking for her lost thermos...which she never did find.

Al took the load in and it was within the elevators limits, so we continued combining with an eye to the sky...nasty clouds all around us, but no rain...thankfully. We finished the field around 7pm and got the last load in...16.7% for some reason...1.5% higher than the other loads...but it was only 200 bushels, so it wasn't that bad.

The farmer has decided to swath the rest of his fields since the weeds have become such a problem, with all the rain that has fallen. We now have to go to Carlyle, SK to get our pickup head while the swathing gets done...and there is rain coming anyway.

Marilyn decided to do laundry but with all the harvesters parked in the campground now, the shower-shack washer and dryer have a lineup, so it was downtown to the main laundromat. The score down there has gotten worse...3 of 8 washers work and 2 of 6 dryers work...and there was a harvester using more than his half of the machines.

Got the washing done and had one load left in the dryer and since they run 45 minutes, Marilyn decided to go back to the camper...then the deluge hit...it just POURED. After about an hour, she went back to get the dry clothes...and they weren't. It wouldn't have been so bad if she had taken some extra quarters to run the dryer again...nope...back to the camper for the cash. This also meant another 45 minutes...and the rain starts again, but we aren't getting the really bad stuff that has been happening, it kind of split around us.

Tomorrow is the annual Crazy Day in Gettysburg so Marilyn will be getting up to hit the 7am bargains before we leave for Canada. More rain forcast for tomorrow...

And there is already over an inch in the gauge...