View of the day-Al looking quite at home in his latest ride...even pulling green.
Can't quit cold turkey, but can't seem to get to blog daily. We have been busy trying to get everything back where it belongs and have almost succeeded...at least the boxes are in the right rooms.
We got the camper all cleaned and were ready to park it, but we still needed to get the trees trimmed...an understatement, really...lumberjack Al was pretty much cutting them down, one chunk at at time. The hard work was getting the branches with the leaves still on to behave long enough to get them stuffed into the back of the General for the trip out to our new land for disposal. He got most of the branches in, but couldn't push them far enough to the front of the box, so Marilyn had to climb in and have Al pass them to her...quite a task, but we got it done.
Marilyn discovered, during her cleaning, that the dryer had quit heating so we took it apart to see what the issue was and after googling some issues and talking to the appliance repair man in town, we took the element out to see if that was the problem. Nope. Tried a new thermostat. Nope. We finally had to take it into town to let the professional figure it out.
Now, part of the problem with this, is that this is a stacking Maytag washer and dryer, which we had purchased some 20 years ago when we were first married. Considering it only gets used for half of the year, it has really stood up well. Even though it is 20 yrs old, it has electronic touch pads for the controls that are at eye level on the dryer. Marilyn thought she would still be able to get the laundry done by washing in the house and using the dryer in the camper...of course, she forgot the controls were on the dryer, which was now at the Dr.'s getting fixed. Now she had to use the washer and dryer in the camper...so it's almost like going to the laundromat...minus the quarters.
On Thursday, Marilyn had a rehearsal for the upcoming play that she is directing at the beginning of November. The group put a little blurb up on Theatre Saskatchewan's website...check it out by clicking the "Spotlight On..." link in the top right corner to see what Marilyn gets up to in the off season.
We tried to have an early night Thursday, because we had to get up early...really early, by our standards...to get Al to Rose Valley for a road trip. It was about 100 miles and Al had to be AIS at 7am so that meant we had to leave home around 5am...talk about a shock to the system. It was sprinkling a bit when we left Yorkton, but by the time we got to Rose Valley, it was raining pretty good. Al checked his rig over...he thought he was just pulling the super B's, so he had to get in the wide load zone when he discovered he was pulling the tractor and cart. Gerry keeps his trucks immaculate, so Al was not too bothered by the change...it was a far cry from the Freight-shaker.
They had to stop in Yorkton on their way to Sterling, ND so Marilyn met them at Humpties for breakfast, then they were on their way. They made it as far as Wilton with the big stuff, then Al got to bring Gerry's pickup home, while they took the camper and grain trailers on to Sterling. They were going back for the wide loads on Saturday and hopefully they would be starting to combine soybeans and eventually corn. Al will make the trip back down to help them move home when they are finished for the year...hopefully they have the weather we had for September to make it another short harvest.
While Al was gallivanting around, Marilyn went back and got started washing the combine...a much needed job, that took a few hours to accomplish. After that it was back to putting things away in the house...a job that seems to be taking longer than anticipated due to the short attention span and detours that every other box of stuff takes her. Ah well, it will get done sooner or later...more likely later.
Al made it back home at 2am Saturday and was able to sleep in for a while, before firing up the chainsaw and commencing to get rid of some dead wood...and some live wood that was in the way of our parking garage...AKA, the lawn. The camper just so fit under the branches and we wanted to make sure there would be a lot of room over the A/C unit and we have been wanting to get things cleaned up for a few years now. It seemed like in past years, the snow would hit before we could accomplish anything...but that changed this year. Marily
n has gone back to work at Staples already, so that will cut into the cleanup time.
And we still spent time daily, in the car, trying to get it running...to no avail. It will be going to the Dr.'s on Tuesday, since Monday is Thanksgiving here in Canada and everyone will be recovering from the big turkey feed on the weekend.
More lumber jacking tomorrow...
Can't quit cold turkey, but can't seem to get to blog daily. We have been busy trying to get everything back where it belongs and have almost succeeded...at least the boxes are in the right rooms.
We got the camper all cleaned and were ready to park it, but we still needed to get the trees trimmed...an understatement, really...lumberjack Al was pretty much cutting them down, one chunk at at time. The hard work was getting the branches with the leaves still on to behave long enough to get them stuffed into the back of the General for the trip out to our new land for disposal. He got most of the branches in, but couldn't push them far enough to the front of the box, so Marilyn had to climb in and have Al pass them to her...quite a task, but we got it done.
Marilyn discovered, during her cleaning, that the dryer had quit heating so we took it apart to see what the issue was and after googling some issues and talking to the appliance repair man in town, we took the element out to see if that was the problem. Nope. Tried a new thermostat. Nope. We finally had to take it into town to let the professional figure it out.
Now, part of the problem with this, is that this is a stacking Maytag washer and dryer, which we had purchased some 20 years ago when we were first married. Considering it only gets used for half of the year, it has really stood up well. Even though it is 20 yrs old, it has electronic touch pads for the controls that are at eye level on the dryer. Marilyn thought she would still be able to get the laundry done by washing in the house and using the dryer in the camper...of course, she forgot the controls were on the dryer, which was now at the Dr.'s getting fixed. Now she had to use the washer and dryer in the camper...so it's almost like going to the laundromat...minus the quarters.
On Thursday, Marilyn had a rehearsal for the upcoming play that she is directing at the beginning of November. The group put a little blurb up on Theatre Saskatchewan's website...check it out by clicking the "Spotlight On..." link in the top right corner to see what Marilyn gets up to in the off season.
We tried to have an early night Thursday, because we had to get up early...really early, by our standards...to get Al to Rose Valley for a road trip. It was about 100 miles and Al had to be AIS at 7am so that meant we had to leave home around 5am...talk about a shock to the system. It was sprinkling a bit when we left Yorkton, but by the time we got to Rose Valley, it was raining pretty good. Al checked his rig over...he thought he was just pulling the super B's, so he had to get in the wide load zone when he discovered he was pulling the tractor and cart. Gerry keeps his trucks immaculate, so Al was not too bothered by the change...it was a far cry from the Freight-shaker.
They had to stop in Yorkton on their way to Sterling, ND so Marilyn met them at Humpties for breakfast, then they were on their way. They made it as far as Wilton with the big stuff, then Al got to bring Gerry's pickup home, while they took the camper and grain trailers on to Sterling. They were going back for the wide loads on Saturday and hopefully they would be starting to combine soybeans and eventually corn. Al will make the trip back down to help them move home when they are finished for the year...hopefully they have the weather we had for September to make it another short harvest.
While Al was gallivanting around, Marilyn went back and got started washing the combine...a much needed job, that took a few hours to accomplish. After that it was back to putting things away in the house...a job that seems to be taking longer than anticipated due to the short attention span and detours that every other box of stuff takes her. Ah well, it will get done sooner or later...more likely later.
Al made it back home at 2am Saturday and was able to sleep in for a while, before firing up the chainsaw and commencing to get rid of some dead wood...and some live wood that was in the way of our parking garage...AKA, the lawn. The camper just so fit under the branches and we wanted to make sure there would be a lot of room over the A/C unit and we have been wanting to get things cleaned up for a few years now. It seemed like in past years, the snow would hit before we could accomplish anything...but that changed this year. Marily
n has gone back to work at Staples already, so that will cut into the cleanup time.And we still spent time daily, in the car, trying to get it running...to no avail. It will be going to the Dr.'s on Tuesday, since Monday is Thanksgiving here in Canada and everyone will be recovering from the big turkey feed on the weekend.
More lumber jacking tomorrow...
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