October 29

View of the day-When it's red like that, you know it's going to be a windy one the next day.

Marilyn was up early to have coffee and a visit before heading for Yorkton. Another long familiar drive, but this time everyone was out of the fields. Just as she arrived in Yorkton coming up to the first set of lights, she could see a pilot vehicle leading a semi with a combine on it...it looked like a harvester, but it passed so fast she couldn't read the name...and the white SUV with the flashing blue and red lights made it even harder to read. Nope, it wasn't for Marilyn...the Highways guys decided to pull over the combine...that's why we don't haul our stuff home to Yorkton... The traffic was too thick to turn around and get a shot of the day, and I'm sure the driver was happy about that...still would have like to known who it was.

After getting home and unloading the truck, the first thing on the list was to get the high speed back in action and load up the phone with the long distance bundles...Sasktel doesn't make any money off us when we are at home...toll free numbers?...who need them? Once that was all in order, it was out to the garage to get the lawnmower out and cut the grass for the last time. It was a beautiful day so it didn't take too long to get it clipped down to size.

Al called during the afternoon, it seems he had the truck and combine full, but the auger had been moved to finish off a bin of soybeans, and with 5 acres left to go, the farmers combine broke down...so no one was rolling. He tried to get on the internet on Donna's computer, but her mouse had frozen up and refused to work, even after restarting a number of times...was it the trapline?...or the four cats that roam the house? It's bad enough to do "tech support" when you are there, but over the phone...not good.

Marilyn had a rehearsal so she went back into town for a few hours, then stopped to get her hair cut from one of the theatre group members who does it for her regularly.

And Al never called back so we don't know how he made out...