We had big plans to get started early today, but that didn't work out. It was cloudy and foggy...or perhaps it was smoke in the air...either way the humidity was up there, so we wouldn't get going before noon.
We did a bit of service work on the combine, then started rolling around 1pm. The wind was wicked, it was chilly out and there were even the occasional sprinkles...none of which amounted to much. The worse part of the wind was the chaos that it was creating with the swaths at the top of the hills...they were spread all over.
Our other issue was trying to figure out the swathing. There were only two rounds around the sloughs and with it being so wet, that made turning around kind of sketchy. Fortunately the duals are doing their job by keeping the combine afloat. The swather man had his work cut out for him with all the sloughs he had to work around, so...shut up and drive.
The first fields we did were patches that had sloughs so close together, that when they pinched off an area, Marilyn was running into herself trying to get the small spaces cleaned up. We got it done, though.
Al decided to run the cart over to the bins where he left the General parked, rather than trundle it through the rough passes between fields. Once we get moved over to the wide open field along the road, it should be a lot smoother trip for him.
We quit just around 8pm...it was getting a bit tough and we would be moving over to the part of the field that really needed to be done in the daylight.
Plus, we had a 30 mile drive home...
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