September 27, 2017

View of the day-All lined up for the last day of service.

Yesterday, was a good day for combining...even with a couple of rogue showers. The canola finally got finished at 10:30 pm.

Today was oats day, but there wouldn't be an early start, due to the dew. It was also DEF fluid day and because the farmer doesn't have any machines that require diesel exhaust fluid, there is no need for a tank and pump. This means we have to fill by the jug...a lot slower than the pump.

With everything serviced up, we had lunch in the camper and waited for the call. Once it came Al headed out to the field with the rest of the crew. While they were out slugging through the oats, there was another crew in the yard putting up a new building...that looked like fun.

Marilyn's job for the day was to get the camper all ready to move back home. She had help from her "mouse traps" who were doing a great job...not one rodent this season. There were several around, most not real sociable...although they did show up when the scraps came out. 

There was one that was quite friendly and it appeared it wanted to tag along.

Once the camper was ready to go, Marilyn went out to the field to check out how things were going and to get the drone up to see some field bagging. The field was getting swathed ahead of the combines and there were concerns that the combines might catch up to it and be held up. That never happened because the straw was so green and tough that there were no land speed records set. It was one of those times where, if you were watching from the road, you would have to line up the combine with a post just to make sure they were moving. Well, maybe not that bad.

Marilyn went back to the camper, hooked up and headed south. Now that is a new one...heading south to get home. She got the camper back to the home without incident and lined it up on the lawn for unloading.

Al finally got the oats finished, moved back to the yard, then came back home. The farmer is done for the season.

But are we...