August 3, 2012

View of the day-Out at the field servicing as most of the weather stays away.


Forecast of rain for the day, but it looked like it would be missing us and staying to the north, so we decided to just carry on as normal. 


We drove over to Lincoln, about 6 miles east of the field, to have lunch.  Al has found his newest "favorite burger" on the run...unfortunately we must have been in the smoking part of the bar, which knocked the rating down a bit.


After lunch we went out to the field, got the windows cleaned on the tractor and checked the tarp...everything was okay. Once that was looked after we went over to the combine, fueled, did the windows and checked the rain gauge...the dust never even got settled in it.

Al went over and gave the wheat a bite test...it cracked pretty good...so he thought maybe we should give it a test, just to see how it would work.  Marilyn wasn't so sure, after all she did just finish washing two sets of windows.  Al thought since there was dust flying down the roads, we would be in the clear and he stuck to that opinion up until the time the huge raindrops started randomly pelting us...time to get out of the field.


As we drove the 5 miles back to the campground, the heavy rain hit...we were officially done for the day.  Al wanted to find his Farm Forum Green Sheet, so Marilyn "suggested" going in to Bismarck to get one and Al agreed.  We got the paper, took a slight detour to pick up some groceries and look at an 80 inch TV...just look...then went back to the camper.


Just as we left Bismarck, the rain hit so hard we couldn't keep it off the windshield and it followed us all the way back to Menoken.  We got safely into the camper and watched as wave after wave of rain showers came through.  Al checked his eyelids for cracks, while Marilyn made the potato salad that she had picked up the fixin's for.  We now have a keg o' salad, since Marilyn doesn't know when to stop...no sense in having leftover veggies in the fridge, they just take up room.


After supper, Al got to watch his Canadian Football game and read his Green Sheet and that was it for the day.


More nothing tomorrow...