July 7, 2011

View of the day-Cleaned off from the rain and all loaded...ready to head north. If you look really hard to the left of the header, you could see the purple Massey.

Marilyn had hopes of getting to the restaurant next door before the egg cut off time of 10:30am, but Al decided to let her sleep in. With only 15 minutes until the menu change, Marilyn got Al to run over and order breakfast...something he wasn't to keen to do since the waitresses weren't the friendliest yesterday when we went in for lunch. Apparently 10:30am is really 10:15 in Kansas time...but Al managed to persuade them with only 4 minutes to go and we got our damn eggs.

After we had breakfast, we went to the card lock to finish loading the rigs. It had rained during the night...anywhere from .30" in LaCrosse, to almost an inch where we had the equipment parked...which washed everything down quite nicely. It was cooler and cloudy, perfect for loading but the sun was working hard at melting the clouds, so we got right down to business.

We got the tractor and cart loaded and hooked up to the Freightliner, then loaded the combine and got it hooked up to the General. We had a bit of dressing up to do as we put new warning flags and oversize load signs on the General's load, then got the camera hooked up in the combine so Al could do some maneuvering to get the shop trailer hooked up behind the combine trailer. Once that was done we were finished for the day...and not any too soon since the clouds had pretty much dissipated and the heat was rising.

We stopped in Leibenthal to check out Pat's Beef Jerky...sorry Pat, it's good, but it doesn't hold a candle to Ottenbreit's in Grayson. When we got back to LaCrosse, Marilyn had decided she couldn't handle her hair anymore...way too many hat days...she got Al to drop her off a local hairdresser who was able to take her right away. After the haircut, we drove past the bunker of wheat to see the guys getting the pipes set to go under the tarp. Probably hoping to get that job done before the mercury rises past the 100º mark the rest of the week.

After getting cleaned up, we went to Rush Center to have supper with Ken, Kevin and their families, then went back to the camper. We were just getting ready to turn into the campground when Marilyn spotted the Schwan's truck over at the gas station, so we drove over so she could get a catalogue and fill up the freezer. We have been down here for almost two months and we have yet to find a truck that was not going in the opposite direction that we could catch...not anymore.

Tomorrow we take a road trip to Great Bend...