September 20, 2009

View of the day-Picking up canola north of Carlyle and dumping in the bins that are in the field. It didn't take long to fill them up with both machines running.

Al and Kim got the combines moved back to the yard to do a bit of servicing...blowing out the rads, air filters and the like. Once Marilyn got the windows cleaned on both combines, the guys moved the machines north to the last field of canola...half section, actually.

Marilyn and Marg mapped out the plans for building the deck that had been on the 'to do' list for the last week. We went into town to pick up lunch for the crew and take it to the field, then brought a sample back to test over at Precision Ag. The sample had a few green seeds, so Kim decided to move to a different part of the field to see if it was any better..it was, so they moved over and were able to continue combining...until the rain came.

Meanwhile back at the yard, Marilyn, Marg and once in a while, Gordie, worked at getting the frame up for the new deck that was going on the north side of the house. Marg had tried to get two different guys to come and do the construction, but they seemed to have no end of excuses, so she said, 'that's it, we'll do it ourselves'. Fortunately, Kim's brother James had the weekend off, so he was able to drive combine with Al leaving Bob and Kim to haul grain, which meant Marilyn had the day off to help her out.

The forecasted rain finally hit around 6pm, so everyone had to shut down...it wasn't a gusher, but it was enough to put the brakes on the combining and the building. That's okay because it was supper time anyway...and there was more football to watch.

Too bad the Roughriders lost today...