A Visit to the Taxidermy Shop

Mowing the Yard
Inside the Taxidermy

Inside a Hobby Lobby Store
Murray Checking out a Wheat Field

Did we have an interesting day today! At 9.30am Wes drove us down to Bismarck and out to their business 15 miles (24km) East where he has his taxidermy business. He only works there in the winter months and is kept busy mounting deer, antelope, fish, ducks and other wildlife. He and Avalyn spend the warmer months of the year fishing here at Lake Audubon. Murray spied their drive-on mower and decided to crop the front lawn. Avalyn drove us back to the Lake but not before dropping into a Barnes & Noble book store to pick up some challenging sudoku puzzle books for me, and Murray dropped into another store to pick up some bait. Just on the outskirts of town they have a Hobby Lobby store - I had never heard of them, but they are in over 2/3 of the USA states east of Montana, so Oregon, California and Washington states miss out. They are very much like a Michaels Craft store. Amazing place. When they finally dragged me out of there Avalyn drove us along a dirt country road down to the Missouri River until we joined up with a main road. All along the road were ripe wheat fields, some in the process of being threshed. The colour mix of the green prairie grass, fields of golden wheat and blue skies was breathtaking. My camera kept clicking, but as usual, the photos just can't capture the essence of nature. A few deer crossed the road in front of us, but by the time I put the window down to take a photo, they had sprinted into the trees beside the road. We finally arrived back at the campground just before 8pm. It is now 9.45pm but only just getting dark - I can still see the lake out the window. It is 79F (26C) and just beautiful.