Life goes on...

We returned from our last trip on Monday night, unloaded the tyres near the yard, slept in the truck and went to load hay on Tuesday.

One off, four to go.

The hay load took a while as there was some confusion about how to load the bales, with our boss on the phone to the farmer, who then relayed instructions to his loader about which way to place the bales.
After 2 hours outside in the bitter -26 temperatures I was all strapped, and ran back up to Claresholm to begin tarping, but, unfortunately, when I got back and we measured the height, it was too high to be permited for some of the US states as it had been loaded wrong, so we had to return to the farmer to have it re-worked!
When we finally got back to Claresholm for the second time it was getting dark, and the weather had deteriorated, so we went up to the Lazy J Motel to take a couple of days off and re-set our hours without attempting to tarp.

We will be setting off on Friday morning, for a similar trip to this last one, and looking forward to a bit of warm weather.

It's a very sad time for us just now, as my mother passed away on Tuesday, but she hadn't suffered too much, and still had all her mental faculties, and at 91 years of age she had done pretty good.

She had wished for her body to be donated to medical science, and my brother and sister back in the UK made all the arrangements to fulfill her instructions, but that means there won't be a funeral for about 12 to 18 months until her remains are released back to the family, so life goes on as usual for us here in Canada.