September 6, 2013

View of the day-Keeping a watchful eye to the sky as the clouds get darker...and noisier.

We were out to the field by 10am to get started on the canola. The forecast was for temps in the high 80's, so we had anticipated getting a lot done. So where did the clouds come from?

Al took the broken part off the combine and got Kim to fabricate a new one...and a fine job of it, he did...then we went to town to get a new chain for the auger on the pickup head. Kim and Bob got rolling early, while we finished putting the header together, then Marilyn was ready to make dust, too.

We managed to get the first piece done and tried to get going on the long swaths, but it started to sprinkle and there was a lot of lightning and thunder, which was getting closer all the time. 

Once the dust stopped coming out of the back of the combine, we knew it was time to quit...even if it wasn't running off the header. We could see that it soon would be. We waited under the shield of the combine, out of the rain, until Kim showed up with our ride.

We left the combines out in the field and came back to the camper...then the rain came. We had enough to stop us for the rest of the day and when Kim and Al went north to see if the wheat was any better, they could see that a lot more rain had fallen up there.

We killed time in the camper for the rest of the afternoon, then when Marg came home from work, we went into Carlyle for supper. Back at the farm it was CFL football night, so we watched the game in the house, then went back to the camper for the night.

Not sure what tomorrow holds in store...