View of the day-Another productive day for Marilyn as she covers 130 acres...and Al gets 9 loads hauled in.This habit of getting up early is wreaking havoc with the late nights we've been having. We had to get some shopping in last night after the blog was uploaded, so Marilyn went over to Walmart while Al did a bit of surfing, so it was after midnight when we got back to the camper.
Back at the field Marilyn serviced the combine and Al took the load into the elevator then we started combining by 10am. The forecasts were for slight chances of rain and it looked like somebody was getting it, but we only got 16 drops...no where near enough to quit.
There were lots of terraces and water runs to work around, so productivity was down a bit and since this wheat had test weights of 60-63 lbs. and was running close to 50 bu/ac in some places it wasn't surprising.By late in the afternoon the cold front had gone through and the temperature had dropped significantly. Al claimed it was perfect harvest weather...78º and a bit of a wind for most of the day...Marilyn was glad she had worn jeans because it actually felt cool as she got the windows cleaned off at the end of the night.
A beautiful sunset and loads of fireflys made for a perfect harvest evening...
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