The Event ~ Saturday Nite Outing

Well, we have discovered a new form of entertainment.  Last week on the 3rd of July Tim, Ben and I headed to Bridgeport for the annual 4th of July rodeo, something we used to go to every year when we lived in Bayard in the 1970's and early 1980's.   Before we left, we picked up a "six-pack and a pound" at Taco Johns to eat on the way.  However, we ended up following the most severe storm into Bridgeport.  It's a good thing we were running a half hour late, otherwise we would have been caught in the storm that flooded Bridgeport.  It looked like a tornado hit, but only severe winds, hail, and rain. 

We ended up detouring around the flooded streets of Bridgeport and headed north to head back home ~ no rodeo tonite!  We took a round-about road trip through the back roads surveying the crops, reminiscing about who lived where in Morrill County where we used to live.  We ended up at Sonic for an ice cream sundae.  It was quite a lovely evening, even though we never made it to a rodeo. 

The Saturday nite drive was so nice, we did again this past Saturday.  This time it was intentional, deliberate.  We started at Sonic with hamburgers to go, drove northeast at a very leisure pace, again assessing the crops, the good ground, the bad ground, the heighth of the corn, who lived where, nice yards, dumpy shacks, etc.  We drove roads that neither of us have ever been on before.  Imagine that! 

We ended up  North of Bayard, and drove south past our old, new house and our old, old house.  I snapped a couple pictures and decided it would be memorable to post about the houses we've lived in.  Stay tuned!

South of our old houses the barrow pits continued to be manifest with cattails.  I haven't seen or picked cattails for years.  It was a new thing to Ben.  I always thought they were cool, so now I have a vase of cattails sitting on my table. I had to spray them so they wouldn't fuzz out!

While on the leisure drive, we stopped to show Ben a turtle on the road.

It was a fun, relaxing drive.  We ended up at Sonic again for ice cream sundaes.  Yes, an eventful drive.  An enjoyable evening.  We shall do it again often!