Bill's Birthday

Yesterday was Bill's birthday and to celebrate, we went to Okoboji to the The Fisherman's Wharf.  It's fun to eat there because you can sit and watch boats going under the bridge right below the restaurant.  It was entirely too hot to sit outside yesterday so we found a nice table by the window.  

Then we went to the amusement park, Arnolds Park, to catch a ride on the Queen II at 7:00.  The boat ride was about an hour and 15 min. and 18 miles of narrated history of the lakes.  I kind of wanted to ride the ferris wheel but by the time we got back to the dock the park was closing.  

Our thermometer is saying right at 100.  Des Moines is supposed to get up to 105 today - whew!  Thank goodness for air conditioning.  Bill & Tim are working (slowly Bill says) on putting a new tarp on one of the semi trailers.  It's the kind that rolls itself automatically which will be nice.  For the non-farmers, the semis have tarps to cover the corn or beans when you're driving down the road so it doesn't blow out - or get rained on.  With our old tarps, the guys had to manually unroll the tarps or roll them up.  It's hard on the shoulders, backs and arms especially when they're frozen after cold nights.

I've been doing laundry, fixed pork loin & corn, etc. for lunch, watering flowers, plants and our 4 new trees in the yard but now heading to the cool basement to work on stamping projects.