October 15, 2009

View of the day-Not again. We just about got rid of the last round of snow and we woke up to this, this morning.

I has been a few days without a blog entry, mostly due to the fact that Marilyn has been back at work during the day and splitting evening unpacking the camper, doing theatre work, fixing computers...just not enough hours in the day.

Al on the other hand has been doing all sorts of things during the day...none of which have been archived, so Marilyn can only guess at the doings of the day. He has been travelling to Esterhazy, Melville, Gerald and who knows where else...but he does not take the camera with him, so without a view of the day, it just doesn't seem right to have a blog entry. Wouldn't it have been nice to see one of the rain gauge on the combine with an inch of ice in the bottom of it, or some foolish farmer testing canola at 20% moisture?

Marilyn has gotten quite a razzing at work because there hasn't been an entry for a while...those doing the chirping might want to watch the back of their shiny head...it could appear as a view of the day before long.

So the weather has been horrible...cold, rainy, snowy, windy...but, it is supposed to get up to 50ºF this weekend...just before the rain comes back again. So now, Al has made it official...we will be commuting to Esterhazy once we get rolling again...so that means a total clean out of the camper...oh, joy.

There hasn't been a wheel turn in the area and the crop report says the harvest is 75% done in Saskatchewan...we wonder where they get their stats...maybe 75% of the carrots or potatoes have been harvested...there is a LOT waiting to be taken off.

Al actually got to do a bit of harvesting related work, he went down to Esterhazy to unload the truck and grain cart into the bin at the farmers...it won't be that dry and dusty coming out of the truck for a while. When he got home, he was full of promise and started to schedule out the next day...then it snowed...back to square one. Lucky for him he has had hockey and football of all sorts for entertainment, live and on the tube.

We had a recall on the pickup...windshield washer motor...so Al took it in to the local dealer to get fixed. He sat from 8:45am to 10:20am and not one person even drove through the parking lot...those commission guys must be hurting.

Speaking of hurting, Marilyn was making stew for supper the other night and was stirring the pot with a metal spoon...you can see where this is going...she got such a shock that the spoon hit the ceiling and she jumped two feet...WOW, that was something! The house must be purged of the evil thing and a new smooth top range must nestle into it's place...no talk of bad grounds or faulty wiring will change her mind. Might as well match up a new fridge while she's at it.

Marilyn has been busy getting organized for Paper Bag Players upcoming dinner theatre in December, working on sets, sound and lights...and getting the web site set up to sell the reserved seating...a new experience for everyone involved. We are doing four performances, Dec. 17-20, in town. We just started advertising by sending flyers out to the businesses for their Christmas parties and the Saturday night is pretty much sold out...not even one poster has been put up...there will be some cranky people that didn't get tickets, we're sure of that.

Let's hope everyone gets harvesting soon...