September 20, 2010

View of the day-The fleet gets to cool down in the mist for another day...hopefully just one.

It was just cloudy to start with today, but that slowly gave way to fog, then mist...and then, of course, rain. Al was able to get the General unloaded and the combine fueled before the rain started...we're ready when the weather smartens up.

We went out to the Skyline for breakfast, then took a tour past the combine to do a bit of fixing on the pickup head before going back to the farm. We nicely got into the camper, when Al got a call from Lynn & Gerry Prevost who were stopping for lunch at the Skyline on their way north to Togo, so back to the Skyline we went for a visit. While we were there we got to visit with another couple of harvesters from Arcola...we got lots of catching up done.

Once more we headed back out to the farm and this time when we got there, Kim was showing their motor home to a couple of rig guys that had seen it parked in the yard...and they decided to buy it. This placed is a RV sales lot this week.

Marilyn parked herself in the camper for the rest of the day and Al decided to bring the combine back to the yard to see if he could get the straight header whipped into working order. Kim helped him move it back and after they checked things over, they were able to get the pickup head shields repaired, but didn't have any luck with getting the belts running the right way on the straight head. Al had gotten a fax with some info on how to get things working right, but it still didn't work, so it was back to the drawing board and now someone will be coming down from Whitewood to do the repair.

Monday night football and season premiers to finish the day off...no more rain, please...