September 27, 2013

View of the day-There must have been one heck of a wind to blow the rain gauge over like this. It took some doing to get it upright...and of course, it was empty, so now we'll never know how much it rained at the field.

Fixing was on the agenda for the day, but there was no rush to get out to the combine...it was still way too wet. Although we were a lot luckier that some of the areas around us. We heard that there was only around .7" around here...it looked like a lot more out in the field.

It stayed cloudy all day, but no moisture fell. It was cool and windy, so it really didn't dry down that much...which we expected. We went into Fort Qu'Appelle to fill a propane tank for the camper and have an early lunch. The hills are looking really beautiful at this time of year as the leaves are turning color. The ski hill will look a little different in a couple of months.

Some of the leaves have made a good lunch for some type of creature, making the leaves look kind of lacy.

We had our lunch then went out to the combine to get our chains changed. We were able to get one done because it used a box and a half of chain, but then that left the length too short for the second one. We had enough chain back at the shop trailer, but that was 10 miles away. We tightened the chain on the header reels and called those jobs done.


A stop at the pickup head was next on the to-do list. We needed to check on the drive shaft to see if we could do something with the slip clutch. Those big swaths of canola were giving it a workout and slowing down productivity. 

We went back to the camper and stoked up the BBQ for supper. Bob had brought over a bag of fresh dug potatoes...and they were HUGE...they will make a quite a few meals.

Chilly night forecast...could have "hard" water by the morning...