View of the day-High hopes that today would be the day that we would get rolling again...Marilyn cleans the combine window in preparation.
Sun shining, windy day, everything was pointing to a chance that the canola would be dry enough to combine...later on in the day, at least.
Today was the CFL 'Banjo Bowl' game, where the Roughriders would be playing the return game in Winnipeg against the Bombers. The Bombers called the Riders a bunch of banjo playing hillbillies seven years ago, and the name has stuck ever since. Al was hoping to watch the game before going out to do a test, but after the first half, he called the farmer and found out he was at the field doing a test. Good thing we had a distraction...the game was a catastrophe, they ended up losing 33-2...oh, the shame of it.
We moved the General out to the field, which was just a half mile from the campground. The farmer took us back for the combine and the cart, which was still out in the middle of the canola field. They had to boost the tractor...the battery wasn't dead, but the two-way radio had been left on which drained the battery enough that it wouldn't start. Marilyn drove the combine over to the other field and cleaned the windows while we waited to get the results of the test the farmer had taken...14.2%. We wouldn't be combining today.
We got everything parked away from the pump jack, then started out on a road trip to Redvers. We were going to check out the toy collections that Al had heard about at the Case dealer yesterday. We didn't see one combine running all the way to Redvers. Wow, what a collection...as you can see in the slide show.
We went back to Carlyle where Marilyn stopped to pick up a few groceries and found a tube of GOOP to repair the tarp in the grain cart. The straps that seal the tarp on the end caps had come loose and would snag on just about everything they could whether we were closing or opening the tarp...lots of exercise climbing up and down the ladder to unhook it, which sucked in the rain and wind.
When we got back to the farm, we pulled out the extension ladder and Marilyn used up the GOOP getting the straps back where they belong. We'll check it tomorrow and if that didn't work, it looks like we will be looking for a new tarp.
And the evening was filled with NFL football...
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