August 30, 2010

View of the day-Al mans the crank on the hopper of Kim's grain trailer full of flax at the Redvers elevator.

Rain...all day...

Al was up early to go on a road trip with Kim to Storthoaks for swather parts and when they got back, Kim went right to work getting the swather reassembled.

Kim had a load of flax in his semi that needed to be hauled to Redvers and since he wanted to try and finish swathing his canola, Al volunteered to take the load in to the elevator. Marilyn went along for the ride and while she was impressed with the truck, the attitude at the elevator wasn't that great.

Quite a difference from what we were used to. First thing they wanted Al to sign a bunch of papers before he was able to unload the flax...which he 'graciously' told them he would not do. Apparently they have a rule about the flax being clean of any GMO grain...how they could enforce something like that was a mystery. For starters they didn't even have anyone in the unloading bay and it looked like they never ran a broom across the floor after anyone dumped...there was canola all over the edge of the scale that could have easily been swept into the pit. If anyone knew how to use a broom.

After we got the trailer empty we went in to get the ticket...apparently a personal call took precedent over the customers waiting at the counter. The guy finally came out and finished off the ticket without saying a word...just plain rude.

We drove back to Carlyle, then Marilyn needed to take a trip into town to pick up a few things and when she went to start the pickup...the check engine light went on...again. WTF. Al came out and after checking under the hood, discovered that they hadn't tightened the positive cable on one of the batteries. Al got some wrenches out, tightened them up and restarted the truck and bingo, no warning lights.

After supper in house, Marilyn had a theatre meeting on Skype and Al browsed through several papers looking for a semi tractor unit and called up a few friend to commiserate over the state of the harvest...and the weather.

Oh dear...temperatures in the 40's tonight...