September 6, 2009

View of the day-Cutting the last of the wheat at Menoken with the neighbor to the west's flax swaths in the background. Officially our last day of combining wheat in the U.S.

We only had about 40 acres to do and there was high humidity again so we decided to go into Bismarck to get our water jugs filled and have brunch. We drove to Walmart only to find that it didn't open until noon...what the heck??! We killed time by having lunch at the truck stop before going to get our water and heading back to the field.

When we got to the exit to the field, we could see that there were combines going in the next field...four Masseys...we only knew of one person that could be...Gallagher's.

Al called over on his cell to see what the moisture was and it was around 14%, but they were going into air bins so we had to do our own test. Fortunately ours was 13.8% which was good enough to go...and we did. Shawn came over and had a gab with Al, getting caught up on how things were going over at Sterling...it sure didn't take those four machines long to whip off that field across the road.

We got the field finished around 5:30pm then figured we had time to get everything cleaned off and loaded up, ready for the move north. The original plan was to get at least the header and Freightliner load to Wilton to help shorten the haul and avoid getting stuck in the yard if the forecasted rain should hit while we were moving the other load to Kenmare. We would have been cutting it too close to sunset, so we decided to wait until tomorrow morning to move the first load to Kenmare.

So now we get our papers in order and prepare for the trip back into Canada. We will come back and stay in the camper tomorrow night, then take the combine, camper and shop trailer right to Carlyle on Tuesday.

If everything goes as planned...