November 1, 2009

View of the day-At least the snow is gone...just barely. It was white yesterday morning, but the cat tails down the road from us don't seem to care..

Well, it was a week of doing absolutely nothing...in the harvesting department, at least. Marilyn worked all week and Al dug in and got the books done up to date...all the receipts from over the summer finally got entered into the accounting program...finally. It is amazing how many things you can find to do to avoid doing bookwork...if only we could just take the 10 minutes to enter each day as it happens...right, like that's gonna happen.

We had rain most of the week and snow for Halloween...we did manage to see the sun once or twice, but it never stayed out long enough to dry things down at all. The phone has been ringing off the wall with people from all over looking to get extra help for harvest...there is still a lot of crop out, but no one can make any head way and now the fields will probably be somewhat soft. There have been lots of pictures coming through the email of equipment getting stuck...not something anyone needs when you just want to get your crop in the bin...or dryer.

This coming week will be a busy one for us. Marilyn leaves for Saskatoon after work Monday to take a course all day Tuesday that CaseIH is holding. She has been wanting to take the course, but Case only offers a few per year and they only take so many students so it has never worked out. She will be learning how to use the desktop software that comes with the gps and mapping on the combine...Al is sure she will be disappointed because she has been using it for the past five years, and probably won't learn anything new. Marilyn wishes Al would attend...

Once Marilyn gets back to Yorkton, it will be a short sleep then we will be off to Dyersville, IA for the big farm toy show. Al's brother Jeff will be coming along and this year we know what to expect from the show...and we won't be sidetracked by purchasing a cargo trailer. The guys have everything mapped out and the wish lists have been getting longer and longer...Marilyn doesn't have a list...she will improvise when she gets there.

So hopefully we will be able to get some harvesting pictures while we are on our trip south and if we do, at least the blog will get back to a daily one.

Until we get rolling again...