October 27, 2012

View of the day-Well...yesterday...something we didn't come home with.  A calendar from Lipton, SK, just north of Fort Qu'Appelle...where Al's toy show buddy, Roger, is from.

We have been pretty laid back here in Wakonda, outside of the regular trips to get water...two five gallon jugs at a time.  We never did get the tank on the camper filled...that portable water pump that we left at home would have made short work of the jugs.  We are getting good shoulder work done  using that hand pump to transfer the water from the jugs to the camper.

We went to the auction last night and came away with a few brochures...Al wanted the JD 7020 4WD and the Case 1200 4WD, because they were the tractors that his dad had owned back in his youth. And being a Versatile collector, he had to get the playing cards...too bad they were the 5 of spades short.  He likely wouldn't use them for playing anyway.

This morning, we were up early to get ready for the big day of sales.  Al was rechecking his "need it/got it" list and making a note of the lot numbers, so we could take off during the long stretches.  We were hoping to get eggs in at the local coffee shop, but had to wait for a break in the action since we got to the hall in time to browse through the toys one last time before they started selling.

Once we did get a break, we went across the street and had a fine feed of eggs and an omelet.  This was the last day for the restaurant according to the sign, they were moving away and would be closing down.  Too bad, the eggs were delicious.

Marilyn got to take a couple of breaks...to go get water, of course.  It was cold enough out that it wasn't a pleasant job pumping it into the camper, but it had to be done...Al would get the next shift.  After going back to the auction and helping Al carry out his purchases, we grabbed another couple of jugs of water, then went back to the camper.

It was still pretty early, so Al managed a nap in between watching the college football on TV and Marilyn worked on the computer and watched a little TV, too.  We decided to take a road trip into Yankton...about 25 miles away...to have supper at the Pizza Ranch.  It had started to rain just as we were leaving the camper and it rained all the way there...and back.

Let's hope we don't have the white stuff for the next leg of our trip tomorrow...