August 31, 2008

View of the day-The bells were ringing at the church while we got ready to combine.

We started out with the best of intentions but we had to wait for the auger to show up so the combining was put on the back burner for a while. We got the air filters and radiators blown out, everything was fueled and greased, then Marilyn started combining to fill everything up.

Al planned on parking the Freightliner at the bin, which was in the yard across from the field, and just running the cart over to it to fill so he wouldn't have to back the truck in for every load. He couldn't park it until the auger showed up and by the time it did, Marilyn had everything filled.

Al finally got to unload something and was dumping the truck until the shear pin went on the auger. The farmer got it replaced and Al got back to dumping the truck. Marilyn stopped the full combine and brought the cart over to the bin and after Al dumped it into the truck went back to combining.

We continued on, watching the sky as the clouds rolled in and the weather reports kept giving the temperature in Minot, about 50 miles away, at 94 degrees while we were at 75 with a wicked north wind. It did sprinkle a little, but it never stopped us and once the bin, trucks and cart were full, we quit for the day...not that we wanted to.

While we were waiting, we were standing by the combine and two fawns came walking through the wheat along a sprayer track about twenty feet away from us. The wind was blowing the right way and we just froze as they walked past us...today's wildlife encounter.

We're hoping the rain misses us...