View of the day-Marilyn gets to cut some pretty nice wheat just east of Bismarck, North Dakota.
We were up early and got all our errands done but missed our 10am AIS by an hour. Getting the bills added up took some time at the fuel and camping places so we ended up being somewhat behind schedule.
Once we were all hooked up with the camper and shop trailer, we had to do a quick fix on the cart trailer lights...don't know what we did, but we got them working. We're pretty sure it was just a ground issue, but it could have had something to do with someone dragging it back out of the way to get to the old corn head we were parked beside...either way we had signal and brake lights so we were happy.
The construction wasn't as bad as yesterday, they had smoothed it down a bit at Herried but we still had to wait for three pilot cars over the whole trip. We had an unexpected stop about 12 miles south of the interstate when Al blew one of the tires on the trailer, but after inspecting it he decided to try and limp it in the 25 miles to the farmers yard.
Marilyn rushed on ahead and got to the campground at Menoken, unhooked the shop trailer then got parked in the camp spot...full campground so no sewer, but water and electricity. Fortunately we are just across from the shower/laundry house and as long as there isn't a line up from the other harvesters/road construction/tourists, we should be alright. After hooking up the shop trailer it was over to the farmers yard to see how Al was making out.
We took the combine out and did a test and while the farmer took the test over to the elevator at Sterling, we unloaded the tractor and cart. He called back and it was tested 13.5% so we started combining right away. There were a lot of green spots due in part to the 8 inches of rain they had gotten earlier in the season...5 inches in one shot...so there was standing water and lots of drowned out spots. Al was dumping in an air bin in the yard so while the farmer trucked the dry grain to the elevator, we took off the wetter wheat and dumped in in the bin.
It started to get tough after the sun went down so we quit around 9:30pm and came back to the campground. Good news here is that we have WiFi for internet, but we are at the end of the campground so the signal isn't the best and it comes and goes, but at least it's not the usual rest stop internet we have had in the past.
And then there was the shower. The shower house is spotless...quite a difference from the last campground. Al was able to have a good shower but by the time Marilyn got to take her turn, there had been a lot of showers and laundry done...a cold shower is not really what you want at the end of the day. Tomorrow it will be a different story.
And at least we got moved, parked and combined 50 acres...finally some productivity...
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