View of the day-The church and POW watchtower at the museum outside Holdredge, Nebraska.
Well, we had lots of rain last night…not sure how much but there were a lot of big puddles lying around the campground. We did sleep in a bit, but had a lot of things on our agenda for the day so it wasn’t as late as some of us would have hoped.
Al went down to Colby to settle up with our farmer and Marilyn decided it was high time to clean the camper…the vacuum cleaner even got used. By the time Al got back to Atwood, it was around 1pm, so we figured we had missed the noon rush at the restaurant…no such luck. We discovered a deli at the back of the grocery store so we had our lunch there before going out to get some work done on the rigs.
Al worked on getting the tires all aired up and Marilyn was trying to get the smell of a well dead mouse out of the Freightliner. She thought it was behind the panel on the dash…that was where the last one she found had been. She didn’t have the time to dismantle it so there had been a purchase of a can of NutraAir to at least make it drivable. She also had to fix the seat cover on the drivers seat that was covering one of those air flow seat and back pads. Just as she took the top cover off and tilted the back of the airflow pad ahead, she hit the motherload…a very flat decomposed mouse that had been squished between the pad and the back of the seat. Bonus…no dash removal needed and once the pad got chucked and the seat cleaned…fresh as a daisy…well, fresher at least.
We took the Freightliner, tractor and cart and header in the first load and started out at 3:30pm to drive 200 miles to Ansley, Nebraska. Just as we had gotten 60 miles down the road we saw lighted signs on the side of the road that highway 183 at the Nebraska border was going to be closed to travel July 6. That didn’t bother us for today’s load, but tomorrow everything else makes the move so we can’t use the tried and true path due to road construction.
We got everything to Ansley and parked by 7:30pm then started back for Atwood, but this time we had to drive the route that we would be taking tomorrow to avoid the construction. The road is a lot narrower for about 30 miles, but it will get us where we need to go.
The rain last night must have been wide spread because there wasn’t one combine running anywhere along our trip and there were still lots of fields still standing…and a lot of harvesters doing plenty of ‘make work’ projects.
Home by 11:45pm and tomorrow we bid farewell to Kansas…
Well, we had lots of rain last night…not sure how much but there were a lot of big puddles lying around the campground. We did sleep in a bit, but had a lot of things on our agenda for the day so it wasn’t as late as some of us would have hoped.
Al went down to Colby to settle up with our farmer and Marilyn decided it was high time to clean the camper…the vacuum cleaner even got used. By the time Al got back to Atwood, it was around 1pm, so we figured we had missed the noon rush at the restaurant…no such luck. We discovered a deli at the back of the grocery store so we had our lunch there before going out to get some work done on the rigs.
Al worked on getting the tires all aired up and Marilyn was trying to get the smell of a well dead mouse out of the Freightliner. She thought it was behind the panel on the dash…that was where the last one she found had been. She didn’t have the time to dismantle it so there had been a purchase of a can of NutraAir to at least make it drivable. She also had to fix the seat cover on the drivers seat that was covering one of those air flow seat and back pads. Just as she took the top cover off and tilted the back of the airflow pad ahead, she hit the motherload…a very flat decomposed mouse that had been squished between the pad and the back of the seat. Bonus…no dash removal needed and once the pad got chucked and the seat cleaned…fresh as a daisy…well, fresher at least.
We took the Freightliner, tractor and cart and header in the first load and started out at 3:30pm to drive 200 miles to Ansley, Nebraska. Just as we had gotten 60 miles down the road we saw lighted signs on the side of the road that highway 183 at the Nebraska border was going to be closed to travel July 6. That didn’t bother us for today’s load, but tomorrow everything else makes the move so we can’t use the tried and true path due to road construction.
We got everything to Ansley and parked by 7:30pm then started back for Atwood, but this time we had to drive the route that we would be taking tomorrow to avoid the construction. The road is a lot narrower for about 30 miles, but it will get us where we need to go.
The rain last night must have been wide spread because there wasn’t one combine running anywhere along our trip and there were still lots of fields still standing…and a lot of harvesters doing plenty of ‘make work’ projects.
Home by 11:45pm and tomorrow we bid farewell to Kansas…
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