July 19, 2010

View of the day-The pile gets bigger as the trucks try to stay ahead of the weather...the auger has been moved six times already.

No sleeping in today as we waited for Ed, the phone man, to show up. We weren't sure what time he would get here, but just to be safe we were up early for coffee and to plan out the day.

We didn't get any more rain to speak of during the night, but it was overcast and the forecast is for rain the next few days, so we wait. Al wanted to cut a test on the 60 acres of winter wheat we have left, but we figured it was best to wait until the sun had been out for a little while at least.

We found out Ed wasn't going to be at the camper until the afternoon, so the first thing on the list was to try and get the General's ignition operational. Once again another dash had to get dismantled to see where the wires were going and if they were broken anywhere causing it not to shut off. Marilyn had it shutting off consistently by jumping the ignition and accessory wires, so she figured she would just run a short piece of wire across the two posts. Once everything was screwed back into place we tested it out again and...it didn't shut off.

This time Marilyn only had to take the switch out to see what the problem was...shorting out the two posts would work but not if they were connected constantly. Since the button for the washer fluid had never worked...or been hooked up, for that matter...she took it out, hooked up a couple of wires to the ignition switch posts and there you go...a shut off button. Works like a dream.

Al took the Dodge in to get the fuel cartridge changed and ran into a bit of trouble. After the mechanic finally got the canister off, they discovered the new cartridge was way too big for it. Apparently Dodge expects you to purchase both a new canister and cartridge the first time you replace it, then you just have to get the bigger cartridge...nice of them to note that somewhere. No one in town had a canister so they had to put the old cartridge back in.

While Al was away and Marilyn was working on the General, the tire guy came over to put a new tube in the grain cart tire that was forever needing air. Both Marilyn and the tire guy had tried calling Al on his cell, but it went right to message manager. When he got back with the Dodge Marilyn checked out his phone and he couldn't make any calls at all...and it wasn't due to lack of signal. Marilyn tried to call Sasktel on her phone but none of the toll free numbers worked...very irritating...then went back to the camper to try from a land line. She got through, but they said their roaming system was down and all we could do was wait...thanks for nothing.

Back at the camper Ed had finally shown up and we got everything wired up for the internet and TV...he offered Marilyn a job...she passed...too many basements with spiders. Now we're cooking with all the TV, phone and internet we can handle.

But Photobucket has crashed for some reason...