View of the day-One load parked in Hamill, SD.
We went over to the truck stop first thing to get the General started and hook up the header trailer. Nice surprise...someone swiped one of our warning flags off the front of the General...great start to the day.
We left with the combine and header and after another uneventful drive of 225 miles, made it to Hamill and parked the rigs in the usual spot. We went looking for the landlord, but he must have been off fishing or something, but our spot was nicely mowed, so he knew we were coming...that, and he likely reads the blog.
We decided to make a detour through Winner for an early supper and to fuel up...surprisingly, the fuel is within pennies of what it has been all along. Usually it it always higher as we move north during the summer.
We made it back to the campground around 8:30pm and since there was a shower house with laundry facilities, Marilyn decided to throw a couple of loads of clothes in, so we could start fresh in Hamill. There is a laundromat in Winner, but the guy who runs it...or used to , anyway...is a bit of a tyrant, so we usually avoid going there.
The crops in the area are still pretty green...the winter wheat is getting close, but the spring wheat looks grass green in places so we will have a wait, but we do have a list of things to fix...little things like lights on trailers, fan blower and radio in the tractor, oil changes on everything...enough to keep us busy for a few days.
However...there is a lot going on in the area around Hamill...rodeos, county fairs, street dances...and the biggie, for us at least...the Unlimited Light Hydroplane racing in Chamberlain, SD on the Missouri River this Saturday and Sunday. We have never been to anything like this and since we missed the July 4 fireworks that are usually held on the river, we will at least have an excuse to get to Chamberlain. We should have lots of pictures in the blog that day...hopefully they won't just be a big blur.
Again the trip through middle America had us watching the people of the various towns as they watched us passing through their town...watering flowers, mowing lawns...sitting on their verandas drinking beer. It's all Marilyn can do to keep Al from pulling over to pull up a bench and parking for the afternoon. We forge on...
Tomorrow we will have phone service in the camper...
We went over to the truck stop first thing to get the General started and hook up the header trailer. Nice surprise...someone swiped one of our warning flags off the front of the General...great start to the day.
We left with the combine and header and after another uneventful drive of 225 miles, made it to Hamill and parked the rigs in the usual spot. We went looking for the landlord, but he must have been off fishing or something, but our spot was nicely mowed, so he knew we were coming...that, and he likely reads the blog.
We decided to make a detour through Winner for an early supper and to fuel up...surprisingly, the fuel is within pennies of what it has been all along. Usually it it always higher as we move north during the summer.
We made it back to the campground around 8:30pm and since there was a shower house with laundry facilities, Marilyn decided to throw a couple of loads of clothes in, so we could start fresh in Hamill. There is a laundromat in Winner, but the guy who runs it...or used to , anyway...is a bit of a tyrant, so we usually avoid going there.
The crops in the area are still pretty green...the winter wheat is getting close, but the spring wheat looks grass green in places so we will have a wait, but we do have a list of things to fix...little things like lights on trailers, fan blower and radio in the tractor, oil changes on everything...enough to keep us busy for a few days.
However...there is a lot going on in the area around Hamill...rodeos, county fairs, street dances...and the biggie, for us at least...the Unlimited Light Hydroplane racing in Chamberlain, SD on the Missouri River this Saturday and Sunday. We have never been to anything like this and since we missed the July 4 fireworks that are usually held on the river, we will at least have an excuse to get to Chamberlain. We should have lots of pictures in the blog that day...hopefully they won't just be a big blur.
Again the trip through middle America had us watching the people of the various towns as they watched us passing through their town...watering flowers, mowing lawns...sitting on their verandas drinking beer. It's all Marilyn can do to keep Al from pulling over to pull up a bench and parking for the afternoon. We forge on...
Tomorrow we will have phone service in the camper...
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