"Officially Behind"

The guys are trying to get moving, but the weather has not been cooperating.  We had rain (and a little more hail) on Wednesday and Friday was a cool, damp day with some rain showers.  That meant that we couldn't cut on Saturday.  Instead, we went to Plentywood to look at a camper which we ended up buying and J picked it up on Sunday.  They got back to cutting lentils on Sunday afternoon and finished here by our house, but then we had another shower.  They finished the hail-damaged lentils north of us and began the move west, but those lentils are also hail damaged and weren't quite dry enough.  It's been a hurry-up-and-wait situation. They have been desiccating a little bit every day or so, and the lentils are ripening rapidly as are the later peas so M says we are "officially behind." 

Ready and waiting

They didn't start cutting until after lunch today so this morning they moved some lentils from the aerated bin to a regular bin to make room in case we have more that are only marginally dry enough to cut. There was discussion today about where they're going to put all the grain.  We used every inch of bin room that we had last year, and it looks like we'll be in the same situation again.  Not a bad problem to have, I guess.

I was out for a walk this morning and picked a wildflower bouquet.  It really is nice that the hills are still green and everything isn't burned to a crisp by now like most years.

My mission today was to stock the new (new to us) camper because once they move over to Opheim they will be camping out.  J is usually the one that doesn't want to make the long drive home after a long day, but even M is talking like he'll be camping.  Maybe he's going to pretend he's somewhere fun.  I should probably buy him some marshmallows.