October 11, 2014

View of the day-Crossing the waterway to get to to the last of Kim's wheat...no one got stuck.

We had a 10 acre patch to finish off for Kim then we were ready to swap headers for some pickup work. After a quick lunch back at the yard we headed across the road to the last of Bob's wheat.

Bob had his combine fixed in no time thanks to the guys from Redvers, so there were three machines running on the little bit he had left. Once we finished that, we fueled up in the yard and got things set up to combine some barley...Al's favorite...heavy sarcasm there.

All three machines got rolling in the barley and the conditions were perfect. The weather has really turned around, which has helped a lot and we had a good wind to keep drying the crop. 

Al had previously booked the evening off so he could head north to watch his Terriers in the second game of the Highway 10 battle with the Melville Millionaires. Unfortunately, they lost both games, but the season has just started, so they will get them back in the next battle.

We got a picture sent from our little patch of land 5 miles from Yorkton, near Rokeby. We have someone else custom farming it, which includes the harvesting. What's new...the harvester never seems to get to harvest his own crop. This is the first crop we have put in the bin that we had put up several years ago.

More barley for tomorrow...