July 28, 2008

View of the day-Al unloads into the farmer's trucks...he doesn't have to haul anything for the first farmer...so he takes over the combining.

Al got up early to get some running around done...errands that needed to get looked after and people to visit. When he got back to the camper a thick fog had rolled in putting the kibosh on any combining for the day...unless the sun showed up.

Before we went for lunch we stopped at the local truck repair shop to find out about getting a new radiator for the Freightliner. We found out we could get one from Aberdeen, but we would have to take the old one up there...Marilyn volunteered to do it once the rad was out...big city with big stores...how convenient.

After lunch Al went out to change the fuel filter on the combine and Marilyn strolled through the stores downtown. There had been some changes on the main street, a beautiful antique shop, giftware galore, but Marilyn walked home empty-handed. She got lots of exercise on the walk back to the campground...swatting the mosquitoes that were rising in clouds from the grass. With over 8 inches of rain in the last two weeks, the conditions were perfect for breeding the little buggers.

With the humidity and clouds sticking around, we killed some time in the camper then went down to the Firehouse for their annual Harvest Appreciation Supper...steak and free beer. We got in before the rush...there are a lot of harvesters in the area and not a lot were cutting today...and had the best steak in a long time. We had a good visit with some of the locals who recognize us from our years of staying in Gettysburg. As a matter of fact, if you added all the time we have worked in the "Burg" it would be well over a year!

Back at the camper we turned on the weather channel to discover that we were in a tornado watch until 11pm...the way the day felt, it wasn't really a surprise...we knew something was going to come of it. We just settled in for more TV and slow internet.

High speed arrives at 8am tomorrow...