Al was up early and off to get the General unloaded at the elevator in Sterling. After he got back to the farm, he hooked up the pickup head and came back to the camper to get Marilyn motivated to get ready for the road.
We stopped in Wilton to fuel up and had a good chat with Shawn Johnson from Johnson Harvesting. We got caught up with how his season has progressed up to this point and where he was going from here. We passed Gerry and Lynn Prevost's crew getting ready to do some combining along the US83 highway on the way to Bismarck. There were a few other crews along the way that were just getting ready to start.
We got to Kenmare and dropped the straight header trailer tire off at the Cenex to get repaired...you know, the one that Al couldn't get fixed in Bismarck on Sunday. After the drop off, we headed west of town out to the farm yard where we would leave it until we could take it back to Canada.
Then we turned around and headed back for Menoken. We stopped for late lunch/early supper at Minot around 4pm...at what Al likes to call "old peoples supper time" and we finally got our Chinese buffet.
There were sprinkles of rain off and on but just as we stopped at the field where Gerry and Lynn were getting their straight header loaded on the trailer to move to the next field, it really started coming down...so we scampered back to the pickup and left them to their work.
Back at the camper, we had a big shower go through and it rained hard for about 20 minutes before clearing off and leaving us with another great sunset.
Marilyn's fortune cookie-To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
Let's hope we still feel that way once we start the canola...
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