October 4, 2010

View of the day-The lights are flashing as Marilyn heads for the truck with another hopper full of wheat.

Another day of beautiful weather which made for a good day of combining with an early start...and this time nobody got stuck...even though it was in a sticky part of the field.

We finally got the field finished and got ready to move north to the next field. We were right across from Precision Ag, so Marilyn pulled in to get the header into transport mode so we could get up the road without blocking any traffic. After Al got the truck unloaded, he hooked up the header to the pickup and we were on our way.

Since we couldn't put the header on in the field, we stopped at an intersection just south of the field to hook it up. Al had talked to his brother Jeff up at Gerald, about 90 miles from where we were and he said he heard Marilyn talking on the radio from the combine as she was lining up to the header...all the way from his house. Bizarre, since half the time the tractor can't reach more than a couple miles with the two way radios.

Once we got everything moved up to the field, we got back to combining. We took a break for pizza when Marg, Gordie and Kim's mom came out to the field for supper. After they left, Al switched from truck driving to running Kim's combine and we put a healthy dent in the acres on that field before quitting for the night.

Tomorrow we finish the wheat...or should...