May 25, 2012

View of the day-Al getting the General loaded from the cart first thing today.

We got to sleep in a bit this morning…no 7am knock at the door to wake us up today.  It was overcast and humid, so we knew it wouldn’t be an early day in the field.

We went for an early lunch…or late breakfast…at the Fat Hen, then went out to fuel and service the combine.  Al got the cart dumped then once Marilyn got combining, waited for a hopper to top off the General.

We finished the piece we were on, then moved up the hill to the yard to finish the last 12 acre patch.  It was nice to see the power lines were well out of the way, since this is the field where Marilyn made contact with the lines a few years back and blew out the back tire and started a fire.  She is very gun shy around power lines now.

Once that patch was finished, we moved 5 miles over to the next 145 acre field.  The move was a bit hairy with the header just so fitting between the trees and the raised ditch…Marilyn certainly wasn’t in road gear.

Marilyn cut up to the oil well that was in the centre of the field, while Al brought the tractor and cart up the road.  John picked us up to pick up the other rigs and Al took the General in to unload and Marilyn brought the Dodge back to the combine, then started cutting.

Al was kept hopping again…lineups at the elevator…he would just get back to the field to see the ‘hopper full’ lights flashing on the combine.  Marilyn never had to wait, though.

Al took the last load in around 9:30pm and Marilyn continued combining until the cart was full, then fueled the combine before heading back to town for the night. It was a gorgeous night out…still warm and windy, which helped to keep the bugs away.  There was lightning in the west with storm watches, but our county was not in any of them.

Today was a 103 acre day, even with the moves and the late start…