August 30, 2012

View of the day-Organized chaos in the yard as everyone gets their rig ready for the day.

We worked bankers hours today.  Got started combining at 11am...still short the JD due to a wrong hose sent out...so Kim and Marilyn combined on Bob's canola, while Dudey and Bob hauled grain.  Al decided since he now has initials after his name...Al Kuntz, SSRL...he should take the day off to drive around with his elbow out the window and survey the area.

At 12:30pm, we took a break for lunch...not a usual thing we like to do...once you get in the combine you don't get out until the end of the day.  Today, however, we were getting "Dinner in the Field", courtesy of CJ 1280 AM and 102.3 FM radio out of Estevan.  

Pam and Sue came out with a cooler full of KFC with all the trimmings.  Doug, Kim's neighbour, had entered his name at a business in Estevan, his ticket was drawn and since he had been doing some swathing for Kim...we were in!  There were a couple more neighbours that came and with Bob, Dudey, Gordie and Al, we had a good crowd to work those buckets of chicken over.

After swapping stories and chowing down, we were ready to go back to work.  We finished the field then moved over to another 80 acre patch and by 5pm, we were done for the day...bankers hours, right?

We went back to Bob's yard to fuel the combine, then Marilyn took it back to the shop over at Kim's yard to clean it off.  We are going over to Kisbey next and will be working for an organic farmer, so it has to be really clean before we can start there.

While Marilyn was cleaning off the combine, Al took the General over to Kisbey and Gordie followed him in our Dodge to bring him back to the camper after he had Big Jen parked at the field.

After supper in the house, we were done for the day...