Friday, July 20th
Nothing but driving today.
Nowhere but on Rt. 281S from Jamestown, ND to Mitchell, SD - which is flat, not much traveled and not much to see except for how the farmers are suffering here - no rain in 6 weeks in South Dakota. Corn being ground for silage already.
Had time to remember my childhood vacations on Grandpa Kast's farm:
- fields of tomatoes and plates full of them at every meal (peeled and sliced and with a little sugar)
- picking cabbage seedlings in the muck and watching the planters popping them into the soil back on the farm
- fresh peaches on ice cream for dessert or cereal at breakfast
- going to the field to pick fresh peas and sitting on the back porch shelling them for dinner and freezing
- making jam and canning peaches and pickled cherries
- the best bacon in the world from their own pigs smoked in their own smoke house - salty and thick and after you nibbled the bacon right up to the rind you sucked on the rind
- plenty of sweet corn on the cob after you husked it and removed ALL of the silk
- milk coming in after milking the cows
- the cookie tins were always filled with apple-oatmeal cookies and graham cookies with a whole walnut half on top from the tree outside the back door. And for special occasions the hickory nut cake with 7 minute frosting and each piece was designated by a hickory nut.
And that was just about the food produced on the farm.
DATA:
mileage: 265 gas: $42 @ $3.60 camp: $24
temp: 106 (heat advisory until Tues. night!!)
temp: 106 (heat advisory until Tues. night!!)
