April 28, 2011

View of the day-Al cranks up the M88 for a ride before parking it.

Time for a quick update...one has to ease into these things...

We have been busy...Al doing taxes at H&R Block and getting down to the wire as cut off is the end of April. Marilyn was busy with work at Staples and also the community theatre group, building a set for a production of Rumor's by Neil Simon with her friend Brenda...the most challenging set to date.

We have had a lot of runoff with all the snow that has been melting, so much so that it has been running across the road to our place, cutting us off from the highway into town. This means doubling the distance to town from 6 to 12 miles...and there is no sign of let up for the next while.

We finally took possesion of the M88 combine we bought at the US harvesters convention. They delivered it to our dealer here in Yorkton and with the help of Jeff's snowmobile trailer, we were able to get it loaded and brought out to the farm. Marilyn got it unloaded and drove it around a bit...somewhat of a task, since it has "armstrong" steering and as soon as you let off on the joystick, it stops dead so you can't use both hands to crank the wheel. Al even got to take it for a spin to show it to the neighbour and see how it would handle on the open road...he was very impressed with the handling.

His last comment was "at least I get to drive one combine"...