Al was up early for a road trip to Regina, about two hours SW of Yorkton, for an auction sale that had a CaseIH 7120 Magnum tractor he was interested in.
Marilyn was up early to get started with the rest of the unpacking and to make room in the office for some rearranging of furniture. Brenda was coming out to help with some of the heavy lifting of the big clumsy stuff...like the display case full of Versatile tractors. by the time Brenda showed up, Marilyn had the the room pretty much stripped...what a shame it couldn't have stayed that way.
After taking all the toys out of the show case and getting it moved over, we moved the fancy JD gas pump showcase in. Al hadn't decided what he wanted to put in the cabinet...it really wasn't big enough to put the 4WD tractors in...so Marilyn decided to take his "every tractor he had ever owned and driven on the family farm" collection off the top of the china cabinet and put them in it. They were just the right size.
Al had pretty much wasted his time going to the auction. He found out before he had gone out, that the tractor he was looking at had been on the auction a month or so ago and when he asked the auctioneer, he was told it was tied up with some legal issues, but he "assured" Al it was going to be sold today...so he stuck around. It was in pretty rough shape...one of the PTO shafts was broken off, one of the front wheel seals was leaking...but he thought if he got it cheap enough, he could get those things fixed. But it would have to be real cheap.
When the auction was over and the tractor hadn't come up, he asked what the deal was and they told him they had gotten a call from a lawyer telling them it couldn't be sold. Al got to blow off a "little" steam...he was somewhat upset, to say the least. He came home empty-handed.
Marilyn continued tackling the tubs of stuff left to put away, until it was time to watch her Saturday Night Live. That lasted until Al came home from the Terrier hockey game and decided he needed to watch the NFL game. That's what DVR's are for, so she passed the remote and vacated the recliner.
Today was the day the world record harvest was broken. Two quarter sections (320 acres) of oats combined by 249 combines in seven minutes! Check out Harvest For Kids tomorrow for pictures...must have been quite a sight.
Road trip to have Thanksgiving dinner with Marilyn's kin in Moose Jaw tomorrow...
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