View of the day-The only combines Marilyn saw making dust on her trip to Kenmare, ND.
We were up early so Marilyn could get on the road to Kenmare to pick up a parcel that was getting shipped there. The delivery address had been shortened up from 52 Highway Bypass, which was the correct street, but they didn't put the business name where it was to get dropped off...and there were several along the highway.
When Marilyn left Carlyle it had just started raining...totally not forecast at all...and it looked like it was going to stay for the day. It pretty much rained all the way to Bowbells before the sky cleared off, but it looked dark in the north all afternoon.
Marilyn had a lengthy wait for the FedEx man and eventually had to get a phone number...from a confidential source...for the FedEx air service in Minot. They gave her the cell number of the delivery man and they got to rendezvous at Bowbells before Marilyn headed back for Carlyle...at 3:30pm...good thing we weren't combining. Although someone got to make some dust, but there was only one field being combined along the way and that was at Bowbells on the return trip...and there's still LOTS not combined and even some very green wheat that has yet to turn.
The border crossing went fairly well considering Marilyn had printed of the tracking receipt instead of the actual payment receipt. The lady on the Canadian side was pretty good about it and even used the tracking receipt to find the price online before letting Marilyn go on her way...hope that doesn't cancel out next pass through the border.
Al helped Kim do some work on the combine and header, then moved the Freightliner closer to an electrical outlet since it is now getting into the colder weather and it does take some coaxing and ether at this time of year. He had coffee in various places and made a tour of some of Kim's crop to see how it was coming along...as well as could be expected in this weather.
We dined in the house again and watched the rain fall, then Al settled in to watch the opening Monday Night Football games while Marilyn got the bread maker out to build some banana bread.
It can quit raining anytime now...
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