June 8, 2013

View of the day-Canola getting swathed east of Cherokee.  We hope to be picking it up next week.

Banker's hours today, got to sleep in.  We had a powerful wind blowing and the forecast was for storms later on this evening.  Still, it was a nice day with temps only in the low 80's again.

Al decided the first thing on his to-do list was to get the Freight running and put some new fuel filters in.  He got the cab jacked up and took down the numbers he needed, then figured he should see about the small filter in the air compressor.  

He had tried to change it a few years ago, but no one had any, so he gave it a good cleaning with varsol, dried it out and has been running with it ever since. Time to find a new one.  You know what they say "Clean air, clean oil, clean fuel and your rig will run forever"...or something like that.

Marilyn was going to start work on the tractor, but needed a few things to get the job done.  We had to go into town to see about the filters, so Marilyn got some of what she needed, then decided to get a few groceries.  We figured we might as well see how the canola was coming along, so we took a road trip to check on some fields.

When we got back to town, we stopped in to pick up some mail at John's house and had a gab with him and Peggy.  We finally got to meet their grandson Bodey, who was turning two years old today.  Marilyn has seen him grow up on facebook, since his mother, Michelle loves her camera and he is such a photogenic little guy

We also figured we should stop to see R.L. and check if he could do something with the tarp hoops on the grain cart.  He always has something up his sleeve, or a brilliant plan, so we went back to the farm to take one of the hoops off and bring it to his shop.

We were missing a ladder that would reach the top of the cart and it was too windy to open the tarps on the big trucks to use them to reach, so we came up with plan B.  We were only two miles from town, so Al drove the tractor over to his shop, but he was in the middle of a couple of jobs and wouldn't be able to get to it until Monday, so we left it there.

With the tractor in town, Marilyn had no work to do except make supper.  Al got his filters changed and called it a day, as well.  After getting cleaned up, we had a visit from Jay, who was just letting us know how the swathing was coming along.

The skies were getting darker and the weather warnings were out, so by the time Jay left to go home, it was just starting to sprinkle...then it really came down.  We watched out the windows as the trees in the distance slowly got swallowed up by the rain, but aside from the lightning and wind, we didn't have anything really bad.  It looked like the worst was just to the north of us.

Al got to watch his hockey game...on local TV, if you could imagine...over the air in HD!  Oh, how we wish we had digital locals at home. We had another shot of rain go through, but since we had only gotten .25" from the first blast, we aren't expecting too much.

We won't be combining tomorrow, anyway...