July 24, 2009

View of the day-Al's new job as a cart driver.

Marilyn had big plans for a trip to Pierre since our farmer had told us there would be no combining today. We thought we would take the combine and header out to the farm, about 15 miles north of Gettysburg, so that it would be there when we could start.

When we got there and were figuring out where to park, we found out we would indeed be combining...so much for the shopping trip...no big deal, Marilyn could handle it. The main issue was that we had gone out with the intention of coming back to town to have lunch, so there wasn't even a care package in the pickup. Marilyn went back to town to get some groceries and make a lunch while Al got to combine for a change.

When Marilyn got back to the field, she took over in the combine and Al drove the farmer's tractor and grain cart since the farmer was doing all the hauling to a quonset in the yard. We were working in the same field as the green machine, so Al was kept pretty busy. We got the field done and moved over to another one, but it still had green in it so that was it for the day...for combining at any rate.

We came back to the camper where Marilyn had put a slow cooker on for supper...it happens occasionally-the stove got used four times in Hamill. Marilyn had to get the laundry done and since the laundromat is open 24 hours, she loaded up the baskets and went out to find someplace open to get quarters...at 10:45pm it wasn't looking too good. Thankfully the bar across the street from the laundromat had a roll to get her started.

Problem #1 was out of 8 washers, 4 worked and Marilyn had 6 loads of laundry...good thing the cycles were short. Problem #2 - out of 6 dryers, 3 worked and they weren't the usual laundromat kingkongers that hold a couple of loads...which brings problem #3...$.75 for the dryers. This wouldn't be a problem except that they had to have three quarters, which gave 45 minutes of drying time...really a good bargain...unless you want to finish off a load that isn't quite dry.

At 12:40am, Marilyn decided to bring the first load of dried clothes home so she could at least get the blog done before going back at 1:30am to get the rest of the clothes. There is one washer and dryer at the campground...don't think the dryer works to well, but there is a clothesline...so at least we can keep up with one load at a time.

At least there is shopping on the horizon...