While doing the morning servicing, Al discovered a bolt was missing from the chain drive pulley on the pickup head. He called into Windthorst to see if they had the right bolt...they had one that would work...so he took a road trip in to pick it up. Once that was repaired, it was back to picking up canola swaths.
Marilyn had water work to do back at the camper. Even though the anode rod had been changed, she figured the hot water tank should have gotten rinsed out to get the crud out of the bottom...it was starting to smell again. She also wanted to regenerate the water softener, which requires a half a box of salt mixed with water. No salt in the camper meant a road trip to Kipling...we needed propane anyway.
After picking up the salt and a few groceries, she threw together a lunch on the road and headed down to Kennedy where the combines were working. Once Al had his lunch and she rode in the combine for a round or two, it was back to the camper to get the water refreshed.
With the softener filled with brine and soaking, the water heater got drained and the inside scoured out. Time to kill before filling everything backup again, so she decided to clean out the cargo hold. There was a lot of tools and water hose parts in tubs...an attempt at organizing. She brought along one of many empty toolboxes sitting around in the garage at home, hoping to at least get all the tools organized.
Once the cargo hold was organized...along with several "so that's where that was!" comments after finding the odd treasure, it was time to get the water running. Everything was fresh again, all tanks filled, the propane tank was back in it's spot, heating the water for the much needed showers later on.
Al had called in the middle of Marilyn's repairs to say the air filter alarm had gone off, so he cleaned it out as best he could in the field, but thought it was time for new filters. Marilyn was on the road again to Windthorst to get filters and bring them back to the field so we could install them. They had just finished the field and were making the move to the next one a mile down the road, so the timing was good.
Marilyn decided to use one of her many cooking gadgets to make some little tarts. She had picked up crust and pie filling and had everything all set to go when she opened up one of the cupboards...looking for the tart/cupcake machine...and discovered all the ziplock containers that she thought she had left at home. Another one of those-"so that's where those are...I knew I brought them!"...unfortunately, what she didn't bring was a can opener. Oh well, the tarts were delicious, made with fruit cocktail from two little lunch size containers she managed to find.
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