Sorry there was no blog the past few days...Marilyn was in Yorkton working and she had the internet phone with her, so Al couldn't do any updates. Not that he would have anyway. Nothing news worthy from Yorkton, other that the fields had combines in them all over the place on the way up from Kipling.
We had a wedding to attend for one of our H&R Block co-workers son, near Melville. Al had his brother Jeff take over in the combine for the last half of the day so he could get away and after Marilyn got off work, he picked her up and it was off to the wedding. We had missed the ceremony in the afternoon, but went later for the evening's festivities...until Al got a phone call from Jeff that the fuel filter alarm kept going off on the combine. That was it for the wedding. We headed back to Yorkton.
Al went back to Kipling and the combine to relieve Jeff so he could get home earlier that anticipated. Marilyn went back home for the night...one more day at Staples to go.
Al started combining around 10:30am on Sunday and they were running until 5pm, when the rain came. Done for the day. Marilyn worked until 5 then left for Kipling.
Monday we did some servicing on the combine...changing fuel filters was top of the list. After getting it serviced and ready to hit the field, we waited for the call. It never came.
Today, we waited for another call to go, but with the low clouds and the odd sprinkle, it didn't look like it was going to get any drier. Once we had "no cutting" confirmed, we decided on a road trip...at 2:30 pm...it was going to be a quick one.
We had been wanting to get down to Stanley to see the ProHarvest guys and Marilyn had gotten a text saying they would be getting there August 28, so after confirming they would be there, we were off. We also had some farm toys to pick up at Carpio.
The trip down was a fast one, we sailed through the border without incident and got to Stanley to pick up our ProHarvest hats. It was great to see the guys and get caught up on the current harvest season down south.
We left Stanley and headed east to Carpio to get Al's stash of toys that he had purchased and had shipped there. After a quick visit with Pete at his "warehouse"...a two car garage...we were on our way to the border. We needed to get there before it closed and we would have had to take the long way home...through the 24 hour crossing. That would have been way too busy for us.
We made the border with an hour to spare and got back to the camper by 9:30 pm...and we needed the furnace.
Hopefully we get back in the oats tomorrow...
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