July 31, 2010

View of the day-Trying to beat the weather that is approaching.

We woke up to the sun, wind and the hope that we would finally get combining. We knew it wouldn't be until later in the day because, once again, the humidity was a killer.

Al got the new brackets put on the trailer and after looking it over, we figured we might be able to add the old brackets with the bar to help support the front of the header.

We went for lunch at the Rock, then decided that 2pm would be the time we would do a test on the winter wheat, so we went back to the camper to kill some time. We tested right on schedule and took it into the elevator...14.5% moisture, and they insist on 13.5%...so we went back to the camper to wait. Al went out an hour later and took another test and this time it was 12.3% so he went out to cut a truck load and Marilyn stayed back at the camper and started to clean up the shop trailer.

The clouds were rolling in and it was starting to drizzle in town so Marilyn went out to the field to let Al bring the truck into the elevator to unload. By the time she got to the field it was starting to sprinkle and we were trying to decide if Marilyn should keep going and risk getting dumped on when it started raining hard or just quit while we were ahead. There was a lot of lightning and thunder and the field we were on was surrounded by a lot of towers...it was the highest spot around, after all...and Marilyn isn't that keen on electricity when it's under control, never mind when it shoots around randomly. After tossing a coin, she decided to continue combining until Al came back with the truck...or she got soaked, which ever came first.

We only had about 25 acres to do and it was very rocky...we've had a header or two with bent rollers over the years because of them...so the going was slow. Marilyn kept going and when Al got back she didn't even stop to dump, just kept on going...the lightning was getting awfully close, just a feeling you get when you can hear the thunder in the cab with everything running. We finally got the field finished and Al was able to get to the elevator before they closed. We are pretty happy we got to combine and it was the last of the winter wheat this year.

We did get rain later on in the evening, but the worst of it went to the south...and it did look nasty. Al had decided to record the Saskatchewan Roughriders game to watch later on but we got back before the end of the game so he started at the beginning and got to fast forward through all the crap to just see all the plays back to back. By the time he got to the end of the recording, it coincided with the end of the game and they won...what a great way to watch a game.

Tomorrow we see if our brackets solved the header trailer issue...