View of the day-Al picks up the swaths on the last field of rye...finally...and the swather sits across the field, broken again.
Al was up early to unload the truck and cart, then went out to the field to do a bit of servicing and see if he could help the farmers get that dang swather working again.
Marilyn spent the better part of the day cleaning the camper and rerouting the computer cables that had been slowly increasing in number with every new piece of electronics that shows up. This required a hole saw to accommodate some of the wiring and two inches is just about at the end of allowing anything else through...unless we just cut another hole. It will look good until it comes time to move...if that ever happens.
Al and the farmers got the swather put back together and they were able to make a couple of rounds then the knife drive piled up again...very frustrating. Even though we had a bit of rain during the night and into the morning, Al decided to do a test. He brought the sample in to the elevator and it was only 12% moisture, so he dropped off the pickup and took the General out to the field and started combining.
He had a truckload by 6pm, so Marilyn went out and roaded the cart over to the rye field, then took over combining while he took the load to town. After the swaths were finished, we decided to use the straight header to clean up the 6 acres that was left unswathed.
The sun had gone behind a bank of clouds and the humidity shot up almost instantly which didn't help the moisture since it was pretty weedy to start with. Marilyn forged through it trying not to look at the monitor...it was all over the place...but the clouds were rolling in and we were in a weather warning, so we through caution to the wind. Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb...
We finally finished and came back to town so Al could get to watch his CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions...who got sent back to their litter box with their tails dragging 37-13.
And now we are in a severe weather warning...great...
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