After more than 3 months on the road and after leaving the "bad" r
oads, we suffered a casualty today on the nice smooth interstate. Our windshield is officially chipped. Looks like it can be repaired. Yellow butterflies or moths and one poor bird suffered even more than the windshield. Here is a picture of the killing field that is our nose cap. We were happy to pull into Brian & Kathy's driveway. Their super sweet
dog Katie tried to chase us off, then decided we were OK. Kathy made a wonderful dinner of hamburgers, brats, potato salad and fruit salad with cheesecake pudding. Needless to say, we ate too much. We spent the evening visiting over cocktails in their pretty house, which Barb failed to photograph :( Kathy had to work the next day but Brian took the day off and toured us around the Bismarck area to see the flooding that has happe
ned this summer. It would appear the fault lies with the Army Corps of Engineers for not releasing enough water when they should have, but that's little consolation to the people whose homes are still sitting in water. Sandbags are still piled around some houses, and many more have been moved out to the side of the road to be picked up. The black hoses coming out from the downspouts were to re-direct rainwater over the top of the sandbags and away from the houses. Six to e
ight foot levees
were built on existing roads by truck after truck just dumping piles of sand on the asphalt. They're starting to pick that up too and we couldn't help but wonder what shape the road would be in now. New dirt roads had to be cut through people's backyards just to access the houses that had been cut off by the
levees. We saw boats people had to use to get to their homes and swampy water on several properties. We all agreed we'd rather have our house burn than flood. One non-depressing thing we saw were these "cannonba
lls". Barb had to Google this to make sure Brian wasn't pulling her leg and learned that cannonball concretions are layers of sand, silt and debris that get cemented together by calcite. Various types are found throughout the world. Interesting! Brian did double duty today - tour guide and head chef - and we had fantastic shish kabobs for dinner. More "visiting" and a wild thunderstorm (with just a little rain) ended our fun stop in Menoken.
oads, we suffered a casualty today on the nice smooth interstate. Our windshield is officially chipped. Looks like it can be repaired. Yellow butterflies or moths and one poor bird suffered even more than the windshield. Here is a picture of the killing field that is our nose cap. We were happy to pull into Brian & Kathy's driveway. Their super sweet 
dog Katie tried to chase us off, then decided we were OK. Kathy made a wonderful dinner of hamburgers, brats, potato salad and fruit salad with cheesecake pudding. Needless to say, we ate too much. We spent the evening visiting over cocktails in their pretty house, which Barb failed to photograph :( Kathy had to work the next day but Brian took the day off and toured us around the Bismarck area to see the flooding that has happe
ned this summer. It would appear the fault lies with the Army Corps of Engineers for not releasing enough water when they should have, but that's little consolation to the people whose homes are still sitting in water. Sandbags are still piled around some houses, and many more have been moved out to the side of the road to be picked up. The black hoses coming out from the downspouts were to re-direct rainwater over the top of the sandbags and away from the houses. Six to e
ight foot levees
were built on existing roads by truck after truck just dumping piles of sand on the asphalt. They're starting to pick that up too and we couldn't help but wonder what shape the road would be in now. New dirt roads had to be cut through people's backyards just to access the houses that had been cut off by the
levees. We saw boats people had to use to get to their homes and swampy water on several properties. We all agreed we'd rather have our house burn than flood. One non-depressing thing we saw were these "cannonba
lls". Barb had to Google this to make sure Brian wasn't pulling her leg and learned that cannonball concretions are layers of sand, silt and debris that get cemented together by calcite. Various types are found throughout the world. Interesting! Brian did double duty today - tour guide and head chef - and we had fantastic shish kabobs for dinner. More "visiting" and a wild thunderstorm (with just a little rain) ended our fun stop in Menoken.
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