View of the day-One of the young riders at the Hamill play day.
As you probably figured out, there wasn't any internet service at our campground last night and since the truck stayed hooked up to the camper there was no joyriding to find any access...so no entry to the blog. And we have to deal with dial up until tomorrow so it is even more painful...
We woke up to raindrops around 3am and after listening to the weather band, discovered that we were in a severe storm watch until 4am. It's bad with no weather channel or internet to see where the radar is to find out what we are in for. High winds and heavy rain were predicted, but we weren't moving anywhere...we just waited to see what would happen. It's bad to be so exhausted and wanting just to sleep but the train horns and thunder keep you from dropping off. It absolutely poured for a couple of hours, probably more than an inch fell but we never did get hit with any of the high winds.
We folded up our shell and headed back to Ansley to get the shop trailer hooked up and the Freight ready for the second leg of the trip. After a quick snack at the station, we started off for Hamill. It was uneventful until Al called on the radio to say the DOT was pulling him over...thankfully we were still in Nebraska and after a warning and lecture on the proper use of the log book he was able to continue on. It was a pleasant day for driving, but as usual by the time we got to Hamill to unload the humidity was pretty high making it a bit uncomfortable to work.
Fortunately we had decided to wait until tomorrow to go back for the other load, so we set the camper up first so it could cool down for us while we unloaded. There were people mowing the grass in the lot where we park and they asked us to park over to the side as it was their play day for the kids and their horses. We found a corner, unloaded then went back to the camper to finish setting up. They had the phone activated to the pillar and after running the camper cable, we were able to use the phone to go online with...gads...dialup. The bad part was the DSL was hooked up as well, but we had returned their modem last year and they thought we still had it so they didn't leave us one...and they were closed for the day. Marilyn is sure part of the reason it is so slow is that the laptop doesn't know what the heck dial up is. Thank goodness we still keep the $10 dialup package from home for our email...at least we can get online...sort of.
While Marilyn was on the phone with Dishnetwork and Sasktel, Al was over watching the little tykes barrel racing. After Marilyn finished in the camper she walked over to watch them as well...a nice bit of entertainment...the goat undressing was hilarious to watch. Once again we are in a weather watch...this time for tornado...hopefully it goes south. Tomorrow we will leave early to go back and get the combine and header.
But for tonight, Al watches game 8 of the '72 Canada-Russia Summit series...
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