We were out at the field in good time to get serviced and ready for action. The truckers, Al and Craig, were kept busy hauling grain, especially once we got on the irrigated wheat. It averages well over 60 bu/ac.
While Al was in line at the elevator, a gentleman came up and asked if he was Al Kuntz. Apparently "Steve" discovered this blog one day a few years ago and spent one Sunday afternoon reading every entry right from the beginning and has followed it ever since. It is so nice to meet some of the regular followers and it is always a surprise where we run into you. Steve knew Al would be in the Prevost Harvesting truck from the blog...very clever.
We finished the pivot and moved over to do some of the "corners". For those who don't know, the crop is seeded in a circle, so that as the pivot sprinkler goes around, it reaches right to the edges of the quarter section...or larger/smaller as the field size determines. Round peg in a square hole does not work to well, so there are "corners" that get seeded separately.
The clouds threatened all day and somebody was getting some nasty weather, for sure, but it wasn't us. We did get a few sprinkles...enough to mess up the windows, but it never stopped us from combining.
We quit just before dark so Marilyn and Lynn could get into the WalMart, 20 miles to the west at Chadron. Gerry was good enough to drive them over and they didn't make him suffer too much...the truck pulled back into the campground just after 11:30pm.
It will be a short night of sleep...
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