View of
the day-It was the view out the camper window…walking distance from the field
as we finally start in on some wheat.
Today we
planned on testing the wheat right outside our door, but when we woke up to a
heavy fog, we knew that wouldn’t happen to early. Al got a call first thing from Jack Dawes the
ag announcer at 98.5 TheRock, a local radio station in Yorkton, for an interview on how the harvest was
coming. He was going to talk to Marilyn,
as well, but she was checking her eyelids for cracks and wouldn’t have been too
coherent.
Once
Marilyn was mobile, we decided to take a road trip to Fairview to see the
ProHarvest guys who were now parked there.
Al had to pick up his stash of ProHarvest belt buckles and hats, since
we missed the guys at the kickoff breakfast in Frederick, OK at the end of May.
Al wanted to get a couple of hydraulic filters for the tractor while we were
there, too.
After
gabbing a bit, we went for lunch at GB’s Lounge & Grill in Fairview and had
a couple of pretty healthy sized burgers.
It’s great to find these kinds of eateries along the run. Marilyn had to stop at Dollar General to pick
up some much needed fly swatters…she managed to forget the two electric
shockers at home. Once that was
accomplished, we stopped at Sonic for the usual and headed back to Cherokee. Marilyn made Al stop to take a picture at a
wrecker along the way. She had seen this
truck at Bud’s Salvage when we went down to Fairview last week, but forgot to
stop on the way back. It gave us a chuckle.
Marilyn
went back to working on the satellite dish…it just would not do what it was
supposed to, so she called Winegard for tech support. After walking her through a few tests, they
came to the conclusion that the turret had more problems than could be fixed
over the phone. They are sending out a
new one that should be here Friday. Marilyn has high hopes, especially since Al
is claiming that he gets to say “I told you so” for the next several
years. He doesn’t believe it will work...Marilyn
knows otherwise and keeps telling him, “getting to say I told you so is no big
deal…I get to do it all the time”.
Around
4pm, it was time to do a test. Marilyn had made all the changes to the combine,
so it was just a matter of cranking up and cutting a patch. Al took the sample in to Cherokee to test…12.5%
moisture and we were cleared to go.
Marilyn let Al do the combining and she drove the cart, but since we
were so close to the field, she was able to run back to the camper to get the
dish folded up for the return.
Al had to
fill John’s truck with seed wheat…always a fun task with a small truck box…but
he never has a problem doing it.
Once
that truck was full, he worked on filling the General, then Marilyn took over
combining. That didn’t last too long as
the sun went down, the humidity went up and the straw was getting real tough,
so that was that, for that. Al came back and dumped the cart, then went in to
town to fill the slip tank while Marilyn made supper…and waited forever for the
pictures to upload.
At least
we don’t have far to go to service tomorrow…
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