View of the day-Al checks out the tanks at the veteran’s memorial near Helena, OK.
Last night as we sat out front of the library sending up the blog and surfing around, the skies were flashing with lightning. We saw a few drops hitting the windshield and decided we had better get back to the camper before it was too late. We nicely got the door open on the camper and it hit…boy did it hit…the wind was blowing hard and it started pouring.
We were okay in the camper, the house we are parked beside made an excellent buffer against the wind and no leaks from the driving rain. It carried on for a couple of hours and in the end we had almost an inch here in town, with no signs of damage that we could see.
We had taken a drive out to John’s farm where he had taken the draper head that was in transport mode. Something curious had happened from the wind that had hit on Thursday…somehow, the wind had blown the header in such a way that the tongue hitch swung around 180º and was straight under the header pointing backwards. Aliens??
We knew we wouldn’t be combining today, so we made arrangements to settle up with Ron in Enid, get a bit of shopping done and give the Chinese buffet a workout. Marilyn got her Walmart fix in and Al was able to get a couple of things from Atwoods that he had on his list. We had supper and a good visit with our farmers, then stopped for groceries on the way out of town and it was late when we finally got back to the camper and unloaded everything.
Tomorrow the heat is back on so we hope to get that last 50 acres of canola lapped up…
Last night as we sat out front of the library sending up the blog and surfing around, the skies were flashing with lightning. We saw a few drops hitting the windshield and decided we had better get back to the camper before it was too late. We nicely got the door open on the camper and it hit…boy did it hit…the wind was blowing hard and it started pouring.
We were okay in the camper, the house we are parked beside made an excellent buffer against the wind and no leaks from the driving rain. It carried on for a couple of hours and in the end we had almost an inch here in town, with no signs of damage that we could see.
We had taken a drive out to John’s farm where he had taken the draper head that was in transport mode. Something curious had happened from the wind that had hit on Thursday…somehow, the wind had blown the header in such a way that the tongue hitch swung around 180º and was straight under the header pointing backwards. Aliens??
We knew we wouldn’t be combining today, so we made arrangements to settle up with Ron in Enid, get a bit of shopping done and give the Chinese buffet a workout. Marilyn got her Walmart fix in and Al was able to get a couple of things from Atwoods that he had on his list. We had supper and a good visit with our farmers, then stopped for groceries on the way out of town and it was late when we finally got back to the camper and unloaded everything.
Tomorrow the heat is back on so we hope to get that last 50 acres of canola lapped up…
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