June 12, 2006 Thunder & Fog?

Not much happened over the weekend. Saturday was cool and cloudy so it was a lazy day. We worked on the computer, talked on the phone and read. Yesterday ended up being more of the same except the sun came out. We are really surprised at the humidity here. We had heard that as soon as you got east of the Rockies it was humid, but for some reason we didn't think we'd experience yet. We have had thunder storms every day and some rain. Makes for some great sunsets!

Today we woke up to the sound of thunder, which quit by the time we got up and then we looked outside and expected the Pacific ocean to be over the hill! The clouds were hugging the ground and it felt just like we were on the coast. We took our walk and that humidity really bogged us down! The nice thing about that is we have finally quit shocking ourselves everytime we touch something. The air was so dry for so long down in the southwest that some of the shocks we were getting were down right painful! I expected to see red burn marks a few times!

So after we dried out from our walk and had breakfast Lar washed the trailer and truck. They had four different states dirt on them. We had our latest rock crack in our windshield fixed while we were in Rapid City today. I think this is number 3 for us. We got this one in Colorado Springs and then on a road from Nebraska into SD they were chip sealing and unlike in CA where they make you go slow and have Highway Patrol sitting there, we were going slow and cattle trucks were passing us and we picked up quite a few chips! Rat Bastards!

Rapid City is smaller than we expected. It is smaller than Chico. Not hard to get around in and I discovered Hobby Lobby! Crafters Mecca!!!!! I had never even heard of it, but oooo-weeeee, I could spend a week in there. I have never seen so many different yarns, EVER! It is like Michaels times three and throw in Pier 1. An amazing place. Tons of decorating stuff, supplies for every craft imaginable, put a Starbucks in there and heaven. Maybe some day! So needless to say we were in there quite awhile. Then we did the Super Walmart thing and back home.

So it has just been a few days of getting the day to day stuff caught up. Getting this blogging thing figured out has been frustrating...and DSL would make the whole experience a lot faster, but hey this beats dial-up!