September 1, 2013

View of the day-Al and Phillip listening to the Labor Day Classic football game as they wait for a load.

Well, today is the start of the brrr months...Septembrrr, Octobrrr, Novembrrr, Decembrrr.

We woke up to overcast skies and high humidity...again...and it even appeared there had been some rain during the night, so we knew we wouldn't be starting early. Al went out and serviced the combine anyway, just so we would be ready to get down to business when it got fit.

Marilyn got to give Kim a crash course on how to calibrate moisture on his "new to him" 7120 combine. After giving him and his combine driver for the next week or so the once over on the monitor, they felt they had a working knowledge and were comfortable that they shouldn't set off any alarms. Fortunately, Dudey, the temp driver is in his 20's and doesn't fear/hate technology the way Al and Kim do.

We got out to the field and started on the last 30 acres just after noon and just as we were getting the last couple of laps in, the sun broke through and after a couple of hours the skies cleared off.  We finished the field and moved over to the next field, moving past the truck dumping the last load at the bin.

Driving the combine the three miles over to the next field, was like driving in Oklahoma during harvest...minus the 100º heat, blistering winds and red dirt roads...there were combines going everywhere. Two red ones with a cart on one side, two JD's, across from them, Kim with his red one and his dad's green one going in barley and even a couple of Claas combined giving some canola a workout. The dust was really flying!

Marilyn opened up the field, it was a little tougher than she had hoped, but Phillip wasn't concerned...he would just run his grain dryer. Fine by Marilyn...shut up and drive.

Which she did until the sun was gone...