October 10, 2014

View of the day-A gorgeous day with...sundogs? Say it isn't so...that usually means cold weather is on the way. At least it means that in January, but that's relative, isn't it.

Even though the dew was heavy, we rushed it a bit and got started by 11am. Kim started combining to see where the wet spots might be...nothing to serious to deal with, so we were off and running. After the first hopper, Al took over combining for the rest of the day.

This field is cut up into several pieces by the water runs that go through it, so we had to find the driest of the wet spots to cross. Fortunately, we had the cart, so it wasn't a worry since it had to do all the crossing.

We finished the really low section of the field and moved over to the last chunk right along side the #9 highway. Everything was going smoothly until Marilyn lost a section knife right in the middle of the header and it was stripping, so time off to fix.

While Marilyn did her fixing, Al kept combining so we could get this field finished. 

We figured this would be the last of the wheat that Kim had, but then he got a call from his dad that his combine had a breakdown and wouldn't be fixed for a couple days...no word on the break...but we would have about 70 acres of pickup work right across the road from Kim's yard.

We finished around 5:30pm...too late for Al to go to Yorkton for the big Highway 10 game where the Terriers were playing against their nemesis, the Melville Millionaires. We got the semi loaded, then got the combines in to road mode and started back to the farm. 

A gorgeous day and evening, with a promise of more to come...