August 26, 2012

View of the day-Some weird looking webs on a tree in Moose Jaw.  We didn't get too close, but they look like home to some insects...the bigger one that you can see is almost 2 feet long.

Marilyn was in the house having coffee at 7:15am...quite a shock to the system. Marg and Marilyn were going on a road trip to Moose Jaw to have a birthday breakfast with their dad, John, who will celebrate 86 years tomorrow.  Also along on the trip was nephew Gordie and Marg's neighbour, Barb, who was getting dropped off in Regina at a 75th birthday party for a friend of hers.

While the girls and Gordie were away, Al and Kim started back into the straight wheat, got it finished, then switched headers and were joined by Bob in the JD combine on the canola.  The did about 25 acres, then Bob decided that the green count was too high, so they all moved west a couple miles to start in on Kim's canola.

Our road trip to Moose Jaw took us past a lot of fields of canola that had been ravaged by the strong winds yesterday.  We also noticed a lot of the fields were still pretty green and we even saw one canola field that still had some blooming going on.  Marilyn thought she was still in North Dakota as we passed by fields of corn, soybeans and blooming sunflowers...how the times have changed.

We got to Regina, dropped off Barb, then made it to Moose Jaw just in time to meet the group at Smitty's for breakfast.  It was a surprise to John, he had no idea we were coming...thanks to mother, Anne's subterfuge... and was thinking it was just going to be our brother Mike (who never showed) and cousins Linda and Greg...who had just moved back to Moose Jaw...and who Marilyn hadn't seen for almost 30 years.  Strange how cousins are so close when they are young, then everything changes as the years go by.

We stopped at their apartment to do a bit of computer tech support for Anne, then left to start our way back home...via Regina and the Costco store.  We got our shopping done, met Barb, then drove back to Carlyle.  Surprisingly enough, we only saw three fields being combined on our 120 mile trip back home...so it is still a few days off.

We got back in time for Marg to make supper and Marilyn got to take the General out, since the guys had filled the semi and silver streak tandem and needed just a bit more room to empty the combines before calling it a night.

We had supper in the house with the rest of the "crew", then went back to the camper...done for the day.

Marilyn is back in the combine tomorrow...