June 29

View of the day-Al gets his turn combining at the end of the field.

This time the day started out sorta sunny, but cool(relatively speaking). Al had left the grain truck at the elevator, so his first stop was to get it unloaded before he got to the field. Marilyn got her rig fueled and greased and then did a test. The moisture was a bit high, but with the wind blowing and the hope for a sunny afternoon, we started combining.

It was a weird day, low clouds eventually drifted up from the SE and it even seemed to get foggy later in the afternoon, it was really hazy. But we kept on going, with the moisture borderline. Unfortunately the elevator closed at 6, since there weren't a lot of other people combining and only a few trucks hauling.

Marilyn noticed the combine was vibrating in an unusual way, so once the field was done, Al checked up in the engine compartment, and a bracket holding the rotor gearbox in place had broken. Hopefully we can get the part tomorrow and fix it ourselves. This part has broken in the past and we had to replace it, so we should know what we're doing (old age and memory...), we'll find out tomorrow.

Marilyn's brother, Tim and his wife Naomi are visiting to the south of us at Cushing, OK, where Tim's daughter and family are living. Today is Tim's 5?th birthday, and I'm sure they expected to be spending it in the sunny south, but that area has been hit by heavy rains. Maybe they are cruising.

A lot of heavy parts to move, better get some rest...