August 22, 2011

View of the day-Marilyn finishing up a corner…and don’t bother scrolling down to see any disaster pictures…today was ‘stuck-free’!

We went over to the Café for breakfast, then headed out to the field to do some servicing and get ready for action…and there was a lot of it today. Both combines ran without incident and the big 4 wheel drive never even got started.

Al was kept busy with the grain cart, making sure the semis were tarped and ready to go when the truck drivers showed up and he had his work cut out for him making sure Marilyn didn’t have too much in the hopper. She was hoping today would be the day not to get stuck.

We finished on one side of the water run, then moved down the road to get to the other side…it was much better combining on this side because the land was a bit higher and the high temperatures helped. Of course, ‘high’ here is more like 88º. The humidity was unreal…around 65% for most of the day…Marilyn’s cab windows had little fog circles where the a/c was blowing on it. It was really sticky.

Justin took his spreaders off and dropped straw for a few acres, so that meant Marilyn had to venture out on her own…carefully on her own. We had a good day…didn’t finish the field…but have whittled it down to just the wet spots and with the heat that is supposed to be coming this week, they will likely get lapped up before long. We stopped to fuel up...we have only been putting in 100 gallons at a time to keep the combine weight down.

We quit before dark because it was getting super tough and Marilyn had to pull straw out of her knife too many times during the day due to the tough straw. There was a big cloud that was moving in from the west and we were hoping it would miss us…and maybe it did…out at the field at least.

We had supper in the bar before calling it a night. We did end up getting a big wind, rain and lots of lightning and thunder…we don’t know about the accumulation, but the camper is still upright, so that is something, at least.

We might get to do some fixing tomorrow, depending what is in the rain gauge…