View of the day-Chaos at the school ground in Hamill...more crews in town.We were up at the crack of dawn...not by choice. The wind had changed and was coming out of the NW and the awning, which had been out for the past week, was taking a hit from the wind. Marilyn got started trying to roll it in, then Al came out to help when we discovered that the handle that releases the holding pin had broken and we had to manually tap the pin back in on every hole to put it down...all 20 of them. Fortunately we did get to go back to sleep for a short while, at least.
We got the tractor and cart loaded in record time then went into Winner to get the new tires on the pickup and header trailer and do the laundry. We stopped at Pizza Hut for their lunch buffet...big mistake. They do this Monday to Friday and any other time we have been in there we have seen a crowd, so why wouldn't they be prepared for the rush? We got there just before noon...all the pans were empty, but "there will be more coming out shortly". About twenty minutes "shortly". The idea behind the buffet is to get in-eat-get out...when they finally did bring another pizza out it was one medium and the vultures swarmed as soon as it hit the hot table, so we sat and waited again. That's the last one for a while.
Al dropped Marilyn off at the laundromat to get the washing started and then went to the tire shop. Marilyn had forgotten to take her phone out of the truck and since there were no magazines or TV to occupy the next hour and a half, she walked the four blocks to the tire shop to pick it up. Since they were still on lunch al gave Marilyn a ride back to wait for the laundry then went back to the tire shop.
After the laundry was done and we hooked up the newly aligned header trailer, we went back to Hamill. We went out to the field and loaded the header on the trailer then brought the combine into town to the school yard. Another crew had moved in to town and were hogging up the yard which meant Marilyn had to park the combine on the front lawn by the camper...a common occurance.
We got out of town an fought the wind all the way to Gettysburg, seeing only a couple of fields being combined, and when we got there we were disappointed to find our parking spot for the rigs w
as now mapped out to be the place where the elevator was going to start a grain pile. Fortunately the owner of the restaurant that we were stopped at told us we could park behind his building if we needed. He owned the restaurant that had a fire a couple years back and he said he was open 6am-2:30pm and was hoping to maybe open evenings by the time harvest got going big time.
as now mapped out to be the place where the elevator was going to start a grain pile. Fortunately the owner of the restaurant that we were stopped at told us we could park behind his building if we needed. He owned the restaurant that had a fire a couple years back and he said he was open 6am-2:30pm and was hoping to maybe open evenings by the time harvest got going big time.We checked our camping spot to see if there were any interlopers this year and found only two campers in the park. We immediately grabbed a picnic table and parked it in our spot so it would be reserved for tomorrow when we get there...and just to make sure there was no mistake, we wrote our name and lot number on it. Unfortunately with the wind blowing, we knew a post-it or paper would blow away so we improvised...Marilyn made the letters with black electrical tape...rough but effective.
We cruised around town to see who was around then grabbed a snack for the road. Calling it in ahead of time did us no good...we got there and when we went to pay for it, two workers were arguing about who thought who was supposed to have made it...so we sat for 20 minutes while they cooked us our order. At least we got free ice cream while we waited. We drove back to Hamill and made it back by 11pm.
Tomorrow we do it again...
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