Good day to get an early start. Once the combine was serviced, Al started combining and Marilyn went on a road trip to get fuel in Whitewood.
We had another 30ºC day with a strong wind and a hint of forest fire smoke in the air. While filling the slip tank with diesel at the cardlock in Whitewood, Marilyn struck up a conversation with a gentleman pulling a 5th wheel camper. She was wondering if he was travelling somewhere and having to fight the wind. He said he had just gotten back from a camping trip to Grasslands National Park in the SW of the province.
He told her the weather nearly killed him with the heat...he just couldn't handle it and the A/C couldn't keep up in the camper. Then he said when they closed up the slides to come home, the bedroom slide had been a resting spot for about 30 bats! Some had managed to get past the seal and were flying around inside the camper. Never heard of that before. They got them out, but now have to deal with all the $hit they scared out of them.
Once the slip tank was filled, Marilyn headed back to the farm to fill the one ton, then hooked up the shop trailer to do a little cleaning on the pickup head we rented. The barley "leavings" had to be blown off since the header was going to be used for picking up seed wheat.
It was hot and the wind was helping to blow the chaff and straw away...most of the time. There doesn't seem to be a way to not get the itchy barley on you when cleaning. Once the header was done, the shop trailer went back into its parking spot and Marilyn went out to the field.
By this time the combines had moved to a new field and were working east. Marilyn timed it right to get picked up by Al near the road to ride for the rest of the day. It was slow going with a lot of patching out due to weeds, so most of the time was spent turning around, or almost running into one another.
We didn't make it to sunset, since it was getting tough and there would have been a lot of confusion trying to figure out where we were going in the dark. Quitting time was early for everyone.
More heat tomorrow...
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