July 11, 2010

View of the day-Al and Jeff outside the camper at Hamill, SD before Jeff leaves to go back home to Canada.

Another day of sleeping in...a late night will do that to a person. We decided to go in to Winner so Jeff could see the 'sites' and pick up a few things. We stopped at a local restaurant which was pretty busy with the church crowd and had lunch, then took a tour around the machinery lots...found a nice semi.

Marilyn picked up a few more groceries, since she missed that section in Walmart yesterday, then we headed back for Hamill. Jeff left on his bike early in the afternoon, hoping to make Bismarck, ND for the night and we tried to decide what to do with the rest of the day.

We watched the final of the World Cup...we are not soccer fans...but it killed the better part of the afternoon. Marilyn decided it was time to do a bit of cleaning under the front of the camper to make room for the new toy purchases. She has been shifting a box of toys around inside of the camper since Al made his big purchase in Frederick, OK...a 1/16 Case 1470 and a 1/16 International 4366...and with the extra toys in the back of the pickup...it was time.

After spraying down to keep the biting flies away and putting on the OFF personal fan...an item that works like a damn at keeping the mosquitoes away...she started hauling everything out to vacuum and make room. It had been a while since it had been cleaned out but fortunately there hadn't been a lot of stuff packed when we left home...Al must have been anticipating some toy purchases.

It had been clouding up all day and Marilyn was listening to the thunder while she cleaned and even had a few sprinkles, but no big rain. It looked just like yesterday when the weather seemed to split just before getting to Hamill and the worst missed us completely...there is still rain in the forecast for the next couple of days. Hopefully we will be lucky and it will miss us every day.

More cleaning on tap for tomorrow...