Kansas, Pratt - Friday, September 27, 2013 - It's Still Windy!!

Yesterday Greg was finishing up the disking while I worked cutting a “circle” of alfalfa.

Although the GPS keeps the swather in line as it goes around the field, every time I came to this irrigation system, I had to slow it down, turn it around and hope I got the GPS lined up right again.  I probably made it harder than it had to be because my arms and shoulders were sore last night.  I think I might have put a death grip on the controls every time I had to turn it around.  David makes it look so easy when he shows me what I need to do.

 

 

When I quit last night, this is what it looked like, I bet it’s really pretty from the air.

 

 

This morning Greg worked on sealing some seams in the RV slide outs to prevent any leaks from happening in the future.  I wanted him to wait until the wind died down before getting up on the ladder.  But, didn’t seem that the wind was going to die down while we were here.  So, I had to be satisfied with just holding the ladder steady – all went well. 

The weather reports were saying this morning that the winds were at only 6 mph but they were strong enough that the flags in the campground were standing straight out and the coach was shaking.  I think they were much stronger than that.  If they don’t let up soon David is going to have a hard time getting the hay baled that we have cut down.

This afternoon Greg worked moving bales while I followed David as he moved some equipment.  When we got home we went to watch Grandson Wyatt mowing – it was his week to mow the yard at the church he attends. 

A self-propelled mower would make the job easier.

 

 

Dad has to help out in a really hard spot.

 

While Wyatt takes a break.

 

We’ve enjoyed helping David (or at least I think we have helped).  They are talking frost in the next couple of weeks so we will be moving on next Friday.  We’ll spend a night in Oklahoma City and a night at the Winn Star Casino near the Oklahoma-Texas state line.  From there we are going to McKinney, TX to the MCD Shades factory to have some work done on the shades in the RV.  We have one that doesn’t want to roll up and down like it should.  We found out that the style we have is no longer made so repair parts aren’t available – naturally.  While we are at the factory to have it replaced, we decided to have some of the others that we use a lot replaced also.  We can’t take advantage of all the nice windows we have if the shades fail.

Once we get the shades taken care of we are going to go to San Antonio, TX.  Not sure how long we will stay, there are several things in the area of interest.  After that we don’t have our itinerary set, we’ll be going down along the Gulf Coast headed to Orlando for Christmas.