July 23, 2010

View of the day-More rigs waiting in the parking lot of the truck stop on the way to Pierre, SD...there was even a Gleaner behind the bunch.

Today was going to be road trip day...it was Walmart fix time for Marilyn and Al wanted to check out the dealerships in Pierre. Al was very clever, deciding not to leave until after lunch, then informing Marilyn that we had to be back in Gettysburg by 6:30pm to watch the Canadian Football League game. Now, an hour there, an hour back, an hour for supper...that certainly didn't leave much time for shopping.

There were forecasts of rain and it was overcast, but it didn't really look like it was going to be a thunderstorm kind of day...but that always changes in Pierre. When we got to town Al dropped Marilyn off at the mall for a short shift while he went through the Green Sheet, checking out the classified section for...stuff.

After Marilyn had finished at the mall, Al dropped her off at WalMart, then started on his tour of the dealerships. He found a 1/16 scale Cat Challenger on tracks...something he has been on the lookout for since he sold the one in his collection at the last toy show he was at. After that purchase from the Cat dealer, he went over to the CaseIH dealer to have a chat with Ray, from ProHarvest, who was there with the support van.

After we were both done shopping, we went over to the Pizza Ranch for supper. The clouds were really building and the weather warnings were out for heavy rain, hail and possible tornadoes, but it looked like it was going to be worse to the south. Just as we came out of the restaurant it started raining, so we dropped the hammer to get out of the line of fire and get home to Gettysburg...we didn't know if there was any bad weather happening up there.

We got back to the corner of highways 83 and 14 to fuel up at the truck stop. It was only sprinkling, but it sure looked bad to the south. Al said the sun would be shining by the time we got back to Gettysburg...and it was.

Mark that down...Al was right...