No combining today, so it was a sleep in day. Except for the neighbour in the campground, whos pickup was parked directly below our bedroom slideout. You would have thought it was winter, because he started his truck at 6:15am and let it "warm up" for 30 minutes. Every two minutes he would rev it up five or six times, then let it idle some more...grrr. Finally he left the campground just before 7am.
A trip into Bismarck for shopping was high on Marilyn's list...heck it was Marilyn's list. Al went out to take the flat tire off the header trailer and got caught in one of several rogue showers that hit us during the day. We left for Bismarck and mapped out the short shopping trip we would make...Al would get the tire fixed while Marilyn was getting her Staples "fix" in.
Al picked Marilyn up with the news that he had been to four different tire stores...none of them open. He wasn't happy...this was the big city, surely there had to be one place open, so on we went in search of one.
We finally found one open, all bays full and a lineup of people at the counter...Al was not waiting. Now he was really "miffed" and decided he will drive 20 miles the other direction to get his tire fixed. There...he showed them.
Marilyn took Al back to the camper at Menoken, then went back into Bismarck to shop in peace. While there she ran into Lynn Prevost in the Hobby Lobby and had a good gab before making a date to have a meeting later on in the evening at Sterling. Since Shawn, the president of the Association of Canadian Custom Harvester's was staying in Sterling, and Lynn, who is the executive secretary, was camped just south of Sterling, we decided we should have an executive meeting.
When Marilyn got back to the camper, Al had the sweet corn that we had bought at the farmers market, shucked and ready to cook. And that was all we had for supper...very filling...and tasty.
We drove over to Sterling and met with Shawn, Lynn and her husband Gerry at the bar. We sat in the "lesser smoke" area and had our meeting, then came back to the camper around 1:30am. It was somewhat chilly on the way home as you can see by the temperature on the pickup.
Good thing we can sleep in tomorrow...
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