August 29, 2012

View of the day-The JD gets a house call from the doctor as they discover the combine needs a new rad...no green running here today.

Another good start to the day, we were out at the field and making dust by 10:30am.  With the JD out of commission, Al drove Kim's combine, while Kim and Dudey hauled grain for the day.  Kim had been using our handheld two way radio in his combine to keep in contact with us, but for some reason, it didn't get charged enough and after two conversations, it was dead...so the cell phones got a workout.

We get to listen to a lot of different radio stations during the day, knowing what time to switch over for the news or a certain program or announcer.  Today, Al was listening to CJME out of Saskatoon/Regina and decided to call in to their weekly "Saskatchewan's Smartest Radio Listener" contest.  The question was...Saskatchewan has, per capita, the greatest amount of what?  Al called in and said, although he hates the game...he thinks the answer is golf courses. And he now gets to wear the title of Saskatchewan's Smartest Radio Listener for a week and gets to go on the radio and ask next weeks question...he also gets a $50 gift certificate to Audio Warehouse.

After that bit of excitement, it was back to combining...although we never stopped during the aforementioned action.  We were combining just north of the drive-in, right along the #9 highway and on one pass, Marilyn noticed a semi pulling a red combine and grain trailer...it was followed by another and another, then the headers and the campers...a harvest crew moving north...a site we hadn't seen for a while.  It was Holland Harvesting out of Minnesota heading up to Indian Head.

It was an interesting day watching all the hawks cleaning up the rodents in the field and it was even more entertaining seeing how they maneuvered around the canola stubble.  Those stalks are anywhere from 10 to 20 inches tall and hurt like hell when they skewer your legs...even with jeans, so those birds were having a time trying to miss them when they dive bombed their lunch. A busy day in the field with lots to look at.

We finally got the field finished just after 9pm and after Marilyn got the combine dumped into Kim's tandem, she was on her way back to the farm with the combine.  Al tried to get his combine emptied, but there was no room left in the truck, so he parked it by the Dodge and followed Marilyn back to the farm.

Finally a 120 acre day...