September 8, 2013

View of the day-Al getting the combine feeder cleaned off for the last time...we hope.

Marilyn was up extra early to meet her friends at Whitewood for brunch. They met Raymond on the way down from Yorkton, to pick up the mail that he had been collecting for us all summer. Once we met at the restaurant, we went in to discover, contrary to all the signage on the front of the building, that it didn't open until 11am and when it did open, there wasn't any buffet. We left and went across the road to the CanAm restaurant.

After a couple hours of catching up, we went our separate ways. Marilyn gave a call to Bill Houston, the man behind the Houston Seed Saver, to let him know she was on her way to Indian Head to meet him for the transfer of goods. He was coming down from Southey with a couple of the seed savers for our machine and Bob's JD combine. 

Marilyn got there early and spent the time opening all the mail...only one check this year...to see if there was anything interesting. There were some deals...all of them expired. That's the price you pay for leaving the country for so long.

Once Bill showed and got the boxes loaded onto the pickup, we headed back to our respective homes. Because it had rained last night and we didn't see the sun all day, Marilyn wasn't surprised to find there weren't a lot of combines running. In fact, the only place she had seen any, were right around Indian Head, which was about 120 miles NW of Carlyle.

Back at the farm, Marilyn managed to get Al pulled away from the TV and all the football he had been watching. The Roughriders stunk the joint out at the "Banjo Bowl" in Winnipeg. We moved the combine up to the shop, cracked open the box, then started the task of mounting the seed saver.

We measured twice and drilled once, getting the main bracket mounted on the header, then started putting the main frame together. Until the mosquitoes got so unbearable that we had to quit for the night, but it shouldn't take long to get the rest of it mounted tomorrow. Should be even less time to get Bob's on now that we have practiced.

And so far we have only broken 4 bolts...