August 27, 2008

View of the day-Al hooks the clips up under the header to get it ready to move out to the field.

Well, we knew we didn't have a long trip today so we got to sleep in a bit. As we were getting the camper ready for transport, we were discussing the fact that it was nice that the slide out was working again...spoke too soon...it wasn't the bedroom slide giving us fits, it was the big slide...it would only move a couple of inches then stop. We discovered a piece of trim had dropped down and was jamming, once we got it back where it belonged we were back in business.

We went back to Sterling and after fueling up we headed for Kenmare. We didn't have any wind to start with and when it did start up it was out of the SW, which was nice...until we headed west. Al had called our harvester neighbor from Gettysburg, who was now in Kenmare, to see if he knew of anyone looking for a harvester and he gave Al a number to call. When Al finally got hold of the farmer, he was indeed looking for someone, so we decided to pull into Kenmare to do a few acres.

We got the camper parked then drove out to the farm to meet with the farmer and get directions to the fields. He told us we might as well unload the equipment out at his farm, so we went to town and brought out the Freight and the shop trailer, then the General and the header. We got everything unloaded, then we took a ride out to look at the fields. We are camped in the Kenmare city park and the fields are only about 10 miles from town...handy.

We got everything but the tractor/cart moved out to the field and combined a patch to park everything...it looks like it will yield close to 50 bu/ac, but tomorrow will tell. The temperature dropped and it was overcast and windy...Marilyn had to get a jacket out...how depressing, it's way too early for that. Too cold to even get the dish aimed...these towns that are built on an angle make it impossible to figure out which direction is south...especially in the dark.

At least we're getting internet in the camper...