August 24, 2012

View of the day-Any one need a cat?  Seven of the little cuties in one batch...lots of scrapping going on come feeding time.

Al was up early-ish to unload the General and get all the chaff blown off the combine.  Today we were getting back into the straight cutting on some wheat across the road at Bob's.

While Al was working on the combine and getting the header flanged in and greased up, Marilyn went into town to see about getting a replacement phone for Al.  Nephew, Gordie, was working at the electronics store where Marilyn went to get the phone and Al kept saying..."don't let him up sell you into something I don't need".  Really Al...you are talking to the Queen of 'up sell'.

After finding the phone and making sure by changing over we wouldn't lose our current cellular plan, Marilyn walked away with a new  hard shell, no frills, flip phone for Al.  Now the big job came...how to get the contacts transferred from his old phone.  With no working screen and the phone would not connect to the computer to sync up, it was going to be "old school"...they would have to get typed in to the new computer program manually...all 185 of them.

Fortunately, Marilyn wasn't needed at the field, since Bob was having trouble getting low enough to cut the lodged wheat, he switched over to driving truck.  So with Al and Kim in the red combines, Bob and Dudey drove truck...this left Marilyn free to get those contacts moved.  The good news was that Marilyn had backed up Al's phone just last month, so she could at least print them out for reference.

We had clouds all day...and it felt like something could be brewing.  There were some weather warnings out and we did get a shot of rain...enough to shut the guys down just before supper time...but by sundown, most of the clouds had moved northeast.

Just in time for the CFL game on TV...how convenient...