August 6, 2010

View of the day-Now this is service. The truck came out to the field and filled the combine and slip tank on the pickup.

We had a knock at the camper door this morning and a had good visit with a Sue Holland from Holland Harvesting out of Minnesota. This is one of a few US harvesters that had come into Canada to do some harvesting over the years...and not that far from us in Yorkton. We compared horror stories from the past couple of seasons...the good ones, as well and before you knew it the humidity had come down quite a bit and we could think about getting some combining done.

We went to the Rock for lunch, hoping it would be a quick one but the house was full and there was only one waitress...more drying time for the wheat. We finally got out to the field and had just started servicing when the fuel truck showed up to give us a fill, then it was cutting time.

We got the wheat finished then took the straight header off, left it in the field and moved back up to the rye that had been swathed and was ready to pick up...we hoped. We got the header on and did a test...hot damn, 11.3% moisture...what a shocker. The elevator had to set an auger up for us and clean out a bin since we were the only ones in the country with rye, so we just filled the truck and grain cart. The forecast for rain had gone up from 30% POP to 50% so we decided to finish the last of the field and left the last dab in the hopper of the combine. The auto folding hopper was looking like a good decision today.

We got into town around 10:30pm and they waited for us at the VFW for supper...Friday again, already, which meant $1 a burger night. It was a full house when we got in, but it looked like most of the guys were just swilling the beverage, so we got pretty good service...which we always do. We had a good chat with a few folks then called it a night.

Back at the camper we are being treated to a lightning show and it looks like we will be getting a shot of rain. Probably won't hurt us too much because we will have caught up to the swather, so we would be sitting anyway. We will have an early morning as Al has to get the two loads of rye into the elevator and Marilyn has to get up for the big Crazy Day sale that coincides with the county fair in town this weekend.

There are several bargains with Marilyn's name on them just waiting to be picked up...