We were wakened to the sound of rain around 6am so we knew we would be able to sleep in for a little longer. We had no idea how much rain had fell...it didn't sound like very much, so we called Lauren and he said they had about 0.20" at the farm. We decided to go out around 3pm...surely that would give it time to dry down.
Marilyn worked on getting another year of the blog set up to make another book through Blurb. The Booksmart program downloads all the blog entries, then Marilyn just has to reformat the pages and put the original pictures in...as you can see by clicking on the little book to the right of the blog. Once the book is formatted, it takes about 10 days and you have a book in hand...a great way to save all the years of the blog...or pictures, or whatever. The 2007 blog version that has already been made, is now available for the ipad and iphone...of course, as anyone who knows Marilyn...we are not "i"people.
We got lunch in the bag and ice in the water cooler then headed out to the field. Al dropped Marilyn off at the combine and went out to give the standing grain the "bite test". He just about fell over when Marilyn told him there was just under an inch of rain in the gauge..."are you sure you emptied it from yesterday?". Marilyn assured him that she did and she even took the paper towel to it and dried it out right to the bottom...there was no mistake.
No combining today...there wasn't a lick of wind to work any miracles. Now Marilyn could finish her shopping in Mobridge, so off we went on another road trip. Al got to look for toys, missing a selection of big 4WD tractors by a couple weeks at the New Holland dealership. He came home empty handed in the toy department, but did pick up a few things at Runnings.
The big purchase of the day was at the meat market in town..."real" hot dogs...well, as real as hot dogs can get. Al loves BBQ'd hot dogs, but doesn't like the packaged ones that seem to be the only ones available down here...until today. We stocked up on meat from the butcher shop, then decided to take a quick tour of one of the pawn shops in town. We seem to have problems with 7/16 wrenches evaporating and Al won't pay retail, so we checked out the pawn shop...the man there told us if we could find any, he would buy them all from us...he had only one and it looked like it had see the welder a time or two.
We came back to the camper, put out the awning and tried to keep cool watching the tornado hunter streaming video from back home...and some CFL football.
No rain forecast...
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