June 19, 2009

View of the day-A different sight to see in Oklahoma...pickup heads on combines. These are hoping to see some canola swaths.
It's nice to see someone reads the blog and is aware of the 8am rule...mind you, we were up already anyway. It was a call to see if we had time to do some extra combining before we had to head north. We left the camper and were surprised to see the day was going to be a weird one...the sky was cloudy and the odd sprinkle was falling...not in the forecast at all.

We went over to check out the fields then went back over to the combine to see if we could finish up the last 45 acres...it wasn't looking good. It started to rain and we decided we wouldn't be combining for a while, so we went figured we would go to Fairview to get some filters, oil and the ProHarvest belt buckles and hats we had missed out on at the kickoff breakfast in Frederick.

When we got back, we decided to do a test since the rain had quit and the sun was trying to shine...15.9% moisture...ouch. We unloaded last night's load in the truck at the elevator, then went back into Cherokee. After checking our eyelids for cracks for an hour, we got the call that the neighbors had cranked up, so we went out to give it another try...12.2% and we prepared to finish the field.

We got done around 9pm and after dumping the truck and parking it in Carmen we went back to Cherokee and Marilyn decided we needed to do laundry since the laundromat is open 24 hrs over harvest. She got everything together, put them all in to wash and dry then picked Al up so he could get a bit of internet in while we waited for the clothes to dry. Everything finished and uploaded by 1:15am.

Good thing we had that cat nap...