View of the day-The Qu'Appelle Valley has its fall colors on as Marilyn passes through on her way to Moose Jaw.
**By the time we got in from the field last night the internet was down in the camper and the 'tech support' in the house had gone to sleep already, so we had to forgo the entry until Marilyn could get in and fix it up this morning...
Another early day as Al got up to get his grain unloaded and Marilyn took the day off to go celebrate her mother's 78th birthday in Moose Jaw.
Al had to do the combining and hauling on his own for the day. There was 75 acres left and he was doing alright filling everything up then stopping to get everything dumped...until the bin would get full and the auger would have to be moved. It wasn't helping things much that the canola was running over 50 bu/ac.
Marilyn got to get a visit in with her family and of course get a good feed of her mom's home cooking...some birthday for her having to do all the cooking, good thing she enjoys doing that every once in a while to keep in practice. Marilyn had to do some tech support there as well, getting her mom's computer cleaned up and leaving her a few 'cheat sheets' so she could load pictures on her new digital picture frame for all the world to see...well, at least the seniors in the building.
Al had the Sirius radio hooked up in the combine so he could listen to the NFL games during the day, helping him to make the day pass quicker...but not the field. Marilyn stopped in Grayson on the way home to pick up the mail and when she got out of the truck she could hear a snake by the front passenger wheel...well, a leak, anyway, at the valve stem. After getting the duct tape out to rearrange the valve so that the air wouldn't leak as much, they filled it with air and she "drove 'er like she stole 'er" back to Esterhazy.
The plan was to at least get to the camper, but since it seemed to be holding air, she was able to make it out to the field. Since the shop was out there, it wouldn't be a problem to air it back up to bring in to the tire shop in the morning. Al also needed to unload the truck again, so at 9:30pm Marilyn took over...at a time we are usually quitting.
The field seemed to go on forever, but by 11:30pm we licked up the last swath and headed back to the camper...exhausted, but done.
And no internet...
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