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P-Day!  Out on the town.  First we visited Richardson's Point, Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail in Milton, Iowa.  It's the site of two graves of Mormon Pioneers laid to rest in 1846.  James Monroe Tanner, 15 months and Edwin Sobieski Little, age about 30.  It's on a family pig farm and the odor was lovely...so to speak.

The over all site.

One of the grave markers

Next we moved on to the thriving metropolis of Cantril Iowa.  It's a Mennonite Community that runs the store we visited and it has lots of pretty interesting things to look at and purchase.  We did some shopping for a few items we were lacking at home.

The bustling downtown of Cantril.

Dutchman's Store is pretty unique, as I will show you.  Just so many things you don't see any other place, especially in Kalifornia!

I mean, really, how often do you ever get a choice between a 10 pound and a 25 pound manual sausage stuffer?

...and, of course, they had the electric, powered ones also...just not something you would see at your local WalMart, huh?

What Family Home Evening would be complete without a game of Farm-Opoly?

On the toy isle, beautiful metal cars, trucks, and farm implements but not a single firetruck, military vehicle, or police car to be found anywhere in the store.  Farming is the way things are done here and it shows everywhere, even in the toy isle.

On the way back, the toll bridge was swung over and we had to wait a bit.  We got to watch a couple of barges move up the Mississippi and sit back and relax for a few minutes.

Nice day to be out with the Hendricks (engineers) and the Wilsons (temple) missionaries.

Lest you think I am poking fun at the store, it was quite an opportunity to see what they had to offer.  They were very nice and they had all kinds of items for sale you just don't see anywhere else.  Including a giant, $1300 hand ice cream maker.  Home made craft items.  Lots of hand packaged food items and breads/pies.  We had a delicious Raspberry/blackberry for dessert at home tonight.  Too bad you missed out.  Yummy!  Back to work tomorrow...