Dodge City, Kansas

 Unfortunately, on Sunday morning when

Rod went out to drive his truck to church

EARLY (for Bishopric Meeting) it was dead.

(The batteries, not the whole truck...)

So we jumped in the Escape and headed into town.

After church he looked and looked in the

garage for the battery charger.

And Kyle and I checked out the storage.

But none of us could find it.

But... diesel truck batteries usually are fine

until they are dead. And then they are DEAD.

So..... this morning he got on the phone and

called to a gazillion Interstate Battery stores

because his are still under warranty.

He FINALLY found two at the store in Dodge City.

Whew!

So...

ROAD TRIP!!!!

He and I loaded up in the Escape

(after I prepped some cucumbers for the freeze 

dryer and put in a load of marshmallows...)

It was a nice drive. Takes about 90 minutes.

But it's all directly south of us and we

drove through some really beautiful farm land.

As you approach the city they have a very

unique welcome sign.

More than life sized.

(We stopped on the way out of town and Rod

took a picture for us...)

We were able to get the batteries with no trouble.

And they recommended we go to

Miss Kitty's Cafe for lunch.

It was just up the street on the way back out of town.

Naturally it's on Wyatt Earp Blvd.

We all remember Miss Kitty, right?

Rod had a yummy chimichanga.

And I had some hot beef on an open face sandwich

and some REALLY good mashed potatoes.

And then we were back on the road.

On the way out of town Rod tried to get a picture

of the BIG beef stock yard.

And this was only a fraction of it.

That's a LOT of beef!

Reminded me a little of Fort Worth TX.

Anyhow.

We had a nice drive home.

Stopped at a service station in a little

town about 30 minutes out and Rod ran into

a man who was driving an original Willy Jeep.

The kind they built for the military.

(Like the one the General was driving in 

White Christmas...)

He had a nice visit with the gentleman.

His Grandfather bought 2 of them and he

has lots of fun driving this one around town.

It was a productive day.

But it kind of looks like the batteries died

because of a bad alternator.

Or something mechanical I didn't understand....

I had to teach.

The marshmallows... sort of worked?

I wasn't super impressed.

They might go to Linger Longer instead of

the Farmer's Market.

And now the cucumber slices are in there.

Hopefully they are good.

I did some last year and they were pretty popular

so they are back by special request.

And now?

I'm off to see about dinner and then bed.

Tomorrow is Hays Day.