Up Rooting?! Literally!

We got notice last night that we will be up rooting and moving on to the next destination, tomorrow morning, October 6th. We are so excited about this move---we will be moving to Scobey, Montana. It is in the north east corner of Montana and is 15 miles from the Canadian border. Our work will be adjusting, range land, lintel beans, and forage. I will be doing some auditing also so we will both stay very busy for at least 2 weeks. I googled this town last night to find that we are going to be in neverland---1 motel, 4 restaurants and Walmart 150 miles away! We were told to bring extra supplies for computer and printer--no large town anywhere around. Another great adventure is coming up and the chance to see Canada--so exciting!!
Up rooting, literally was my title name because, not only are we up rooting and moving on, but Curtis woke up this morning with a dreaded tooth ache. He knew he had to get something done today, before driving the distance and not wanting to have the pain for 2 more days. After doing our job this morning, we decided to type in dentist on the GPS system, it took only 40 MINUTES to find the dentist and drive away with one tooth extracted. I couldn't believe how fast it was---the dentist even had to be called from home to come back to take care of this Texas guy with a toothache!! He is doing much better--but feels like a tree has been up rooted out of his mouth! So thankful for the helpful people in Brookings South Dakota to take care of this---

We have traveled many miles again this week--and in doing so we went through Mitchell, South Dakota, which is the home town of the Worlds only Corn Palace. It was so interesting and the pictures do it NO justice. One farmer raises all the corn, milo and rye that is used in making this art work every year. We were fortunate to see it as it was being done for the year 2008. They had almost completed it--as you can see 2 men still working on the production. They use over 300,000 pounds of corn product to cut up, bind together and nail to the wall. One artist designs the entire building, marks it off on black roofing paper and the men are hired to literally nail by number to get the designs, using over 12 different colors of corn. Everything you see is living product!!! The two large columns on each side of the center billboard are just milo heads---it is so cool!!!

A little further North and just East of Brookings we passed a farm that the owner has many extra hours in the winter to do his own artwork. He had so many sculptures--that a road had been carved out from people stopping and driving thru is field to check out all the junk iron he had welded to make his own yard art. I have a couple of pictures here showing some of his unique work. The Noahs ark was the most impressive for me--the ark was an old diesel tank, and I hope you can make out all the little critters as well as the elephants and giraffe. The Volkswagen spider was very cute also. He had built so many things we had to pick out what we liked best---Not enough room here to share it all!

The whole time we have been here, we have seen empty corn cribs on virtually every farm. I had mentioned that if there were so many, why wasn't there corn in some of them. Today--we finally found a full corn crib. The color from the road is incredible. Harvest is here---most all farms grow pumpkins in their gardens, so all houses have decorations galore, put the corn crib out front--your farm decoration is compete! I would say that South Dakota harvest is 1/4 complete--I wonder if harvest will be finished before the first snow?

We will drive 650 miles tomorrow to reach Scobey, it will be a long day and can't believe that in October we are worrying about reaching bad roads due to a snow storm arriving there tonight. One inch of snow is in the forecast with the temperature low being 26 degrees----Oh so glad we packed for winter months--will we see any snow--who knows--but I will be keeping you in touch!



Until then.............