Bonus Tours! On My Day Off! Woo Hoo!

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Inside the post office in the back of the Smith Sherlock Company Store, South Pass City State Historic Site, Wyoming 
 
Inside the post office located at the back of the Smith Sherlock Store. The phone on the left is a reproduction, based on a photograph of the original phone.

 

Connie and I got up this morning and had a leisurely breakfast. She left to go open the town- an excuse to walk a bit. I stayed back a while and drank coffee. But then,...

Today's tour group arrived early! Very unusual. I walked down into town and waited for the kids to get organized and sorted into groups. We divided them into two groups, one went up to the mine and mill, the other we took into town. There weren't too many so we divided the town kids into two groups. Later, they went up to the mine and mill. We then took the second group, who had started up at the mine, around town. Done! Back to the trailer before noon. I read a bit- displacement behavior-  as I have to finish my presentation for tomorrow. I have the talk down, but need to make a few more slides that are necessary, but which do not excite me.

Around 1 PM, the sky darkened and we got a pretty nice rain. The temperature had gotten up to 62, but dropped to 54, or so, for the rest of the afternoon. Perfect nap weather!

Connie and I read for a while, then I heated up supper, We still have plenty of pulled pork!

After dinner, I sat down and finished my talk. It took a couple of hours to pull a few photos and anecdotes together, I knew what I wanted to do, I just didn't want to spend the time on it. Well, Finished! I'll go over it tomorrow and then present it at 11:00. I have given hundreds of lectures and talks at conferences, so I am a bit lackadaisical.

Time now to listen to a bit of a college football game and then some reading. 

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