View of the day-Al makes the first corner out of the yard without a problem.We woke up to the sound of rain on the roof during the night…not very much but enough to put a hold on the harvest in the area.
We slept in again then tried to get to the restaurant for eggs…they only serve breakfast until 11am and we did beat the clock by a half hour, but they were just having a buffet…nothing else. It was $8 for one pass through and $11 for two passes…different. We went for the one pass because we are professional buffet patrons and know how to strategically stack a plate…it wasn’t worth the one pass price.
We had decided that we would take the day off and just relax…take in the festivities, watch the fireworks, that sort of thing. We had heard the forecasts for the next few days and it sounded like the scattered thunderstorms that were expected were going to dump heavy amounts of rain and we didn’t relish the thoughts of hauling the big loads down that 7 miles of rolling dirt roads. No day off for us, we figured we had better get loaded up and at least move the rigs to the fairgrounds in Atwood.
We went out to the farm, in the misting rain, got everything loaded…first try successful loading the combine…and brought the header, General and combine into town, then went back out for the Freightliner, tractor, grain cart and shop trailer and brought them to the fairgrounds. We passed some green ones parked on the side of the road...have to keep the green lovers interested...
We got cleaned up then went to Colby to meet Jerry and Lynn Prevost for supper, we stopped at their camper first and visited there for a while…WOW…there are a lot of harvesters parked there. Since there had been rain, everyone was sitting at the campground and the semis with grain trailers that were lined up at the end of the lot were staggering. We also got to visit with a few other harvesters that were in the campground before going to for supper.
After catching up on their season so far, we said our goodbyes then went to get a bit of shopping done before heading back to Atwood to catch the 10:30 fireworks display, which the locals had been bragging up. We were cutting it close time wise and could see Colby’s show going on in the rear view mirror…we could also see fireworks all along the horizon along the way. We got to the top of the hill just heading into Atwood only to meet a string of vehicles on their way out…and it was 10:35…apparently we had missed the show. The guys in the campground are picking up some of the slack with their purchases.
News from Hamill, SD is that it should be ready to cut by Wednesday of this coming week.
Looks like we start the long 365 mile move north tomorrow…
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