Rain - Finally!!!

We're on a rain delay - we FINALLY got a decent rain Sunday night - .8" at our house.    Yesterday Bill went to Algona to the U.S. Cellular store, and I went to Ft. Dodge to Walmart.  He has a new Bluetooth so he can answer his many phone calls handsfree when he's combining and has been having a problem with the volume going all the way to Low after every call which is not good when you have loud equipment noise.  (I have to say that I don't call him near as much this fall!)  It seems that this Bluetooth has a "safety feature" that does this to protect your hearing.  They're sending out a new one to try, but we don't think it's going to work either.

Then Bill and Tim worked on switching corn around in the grain bins.  Last year we didn't use our grain bins at all which is unusual, because the corn was so dry when combined due to the drought that it didn't need to be dried in the bins.  This year the storage prices at the elevator are high so we're storing in our grain bins.  Using the bins adds quite a bit more work.  For one thing, they have to be checked all the time which means climbing a bad, flat little ladder to the top.  You can get stairs with railings to hold onto that go around the bin to the top but they're very expensive. 

The next step on the shed was done recently.  Bill hired Midwest Spray Foam to spray foam insulation in our shed.  I think it took two days.  Now Bill can put the steel "walls" up this winter after he gets insulation above the ceiling. 

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insulation up close