Sunday,
August 24, 2025 Exploring the Missouri River
Let me
explain the anatomy of my humans. They
have four legs. The lower two they use
for walking. The upper two are smaller,
and they use them to give me food. Don’t
ask me why they don’t walk on all four of their legs. On their lower legs, they have paws that they
always cover. I don’t know how they get
a feel for where they are walking, but they all seem to do it. Their upper legs have paws with dangling
things. These are really quite amazing
as they can give me food, clean my potty box, and let me outside quite
easy. I am sure they could bat a ball or
catch a mouse with those paws. Their
lower legs go to their hiney, where, hard to believe… they DON’T have a
tail! There must be communication issues
with this. Even more, their head has two
ears, but they are not on top! They
really can’t move them. They are stuck
on the side of their heads, go figure. I don’t know how they hear anything, but
they seem to be able to. So when I snuggle at night, I like to lay on
their lower legs, between their lower paws and their hiney.
It was quite
cold this morning, in the 40’s. Back
home, there is a heat wave. Not so here. We actually turned on the heater for a wee
while. Bundled up, we did our walk
around the campground. There is hardly
anybody here, on this beautiful lake. We
see very few boats, but we have been
told that they never put out the boat docks this season, so it would be
tricky to launch. The launch ramp by our
site doesn’t quite make it to the water, so it could be used for a kayak, or
something of that nature, but not a boat.
I have a
running battle with Spouse, as he keeps leaving the doors open. It’s like an engraved invitation for the
flies to come in. And they go after me.
Our fly swatter is getting a real work out.
Spouse is ruthless, except when he is driving… Let me get this little bastard right now… He
is on my laptop so who knows what might come out on this blog when I smack the
keyboard…
Today, we
did some exploring on hwy 1804.
Originally, I looked at the map and thought this may be a nice route
down from I94, from Bismarck. But it
looked pretty small, and when you are towing, it may not be the best idea. Well, today we found out it would have been
just fine! You need to be prepared to be on this road, as there is no fuel, and
no turnouts, but it is a beautiful road.
1804 has
rolling green hills. Some of the hills
are open prairie, other parts are agriculture:
the usual corn, soy, and my favorite smiling sunflowers. The sky is blue with lots of big white puffy
clouds. It feels so crisp and clean. The road goes up, then goes down. It follows the Missouri River, but you don’t
see it too much. There are a couple of
roads that will take you to the river should you choose. We headed north and before we knew it, we
were in Bismarck. Hadn’t planned on
that. So we made it worth our while by
picking up a few things at the store, and having lunch. We went to a Chinese buffet (NOT MY FAVORITE
but Spouse loved it). Spouse gorged
himself. I had some veggies and some
salmon. A buffet was pretty much wasted
on me.
After
fueling, we went through a carwash for a quickie. From that point on, Spouse was a whiner. We headed back and I wanted to go on a dirt
road. Not with my clean truck!! Could you see my eyes roll to the back of my
head? REALLY? Ok wittle whiner…
At camp, the
lake is still (it needs to have skiers on it!) and there are no boats! We let Rudy out. He chased grasshoppers and dragonflies. He likes it here.
Oh great… fly
guts on my keyboard… little bastards!
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