View of the day-The combine waits, all dressed up with no place to go.
What a night! It started raining around 12:30am and it looked like there would be one nasty burst, then it would be over. We got the big burst, lots of lightning and thunder and a short but heavy rain shower. About an hour later it started raining again and it just poured...and then it started again a couple hours later...when we checked the rain gauge this morning it had 1.10 inches in it.
We didn't combine today.
It was cool enough that we finally got to open up the windows in the camper and let the air through...although the heady scent of manure...old manure...wafting over kind of took away the freshness. We went over to do some work on the equipment...little things that needed to get done...anything to avoid doing books.
We finally got the new patch job on the fuel slip tank painted...no mean task with the wind that was blowing. We had a cheap drop cloth that had been purchased for some other planned job that never got accomplished...carefully folded in the package, it was little more than plastic sandwich wrap. It was almost impossible to get it opened up, even with the wind helping, but in the end most of it served it's purpose and the tank looks fabulous once again.
Al emptied the water out of the truck boxes and cleaned out the bottom of the grain cart while Marilyn installed some new 'crap carriers' in the shop trailer. These over the door shoe organizers work wonders mounted on the back doors of the shop to hold various cans of paint, WD40, battery post cleaner, bug spray... you get the drift.
Marilyn had purchased a wireless backup camera for the pickup and decided it was high time to install it. The camera is wireless to the displayer, but still had to be hooked into the backup lights for power, so that meant digging around for the right wire and hooking it up. It worked pretty good...not a real wide angle, but it would get you backed up to the trailers lickity-split...if it weren't for the signal interference. The bluetooth in the truck is on the same frequency as the camera and the picture would start rolling then cut out completely...looks like it will be going back to Walmart. Of course, now that we have experienced the backup camera...
We got back to the camper and had 'lupper'...late lunch early supper, then took the rest of the day off. After watching some old episodes of some favorite shows online...Simon and Simon...love those '80's styles, Al decided to bite the bullet and order a CFL football game online.
After paying the bucks and getting the password we started watching the game in a 5 inch square box...on a 24 inch monitor. When we went for full screen it stalled and the picture was horrendous, so we went back to the small picture which jammed up the computer and it had to be restarted...several times. To top it off, we came into the game just before half time so we weren't getting our money's worth at all. The best part is this isn't even Al's team...that is to say, his "bandwagon" team...but, it was football...well, Canadian football at any rate.
At least we didn't get the 2.5 inches they got just SW of here...
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