Final things.....

 5:39 am - Tuesday - September 30th - LPG&RVR - 49° F, humidity 60%, wind 6 mph out of the south by southeast......cloudy today with a forecast high of 62° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I began our first night shift working the annual sugar beet harvest.....

Beets being piled on the ground prior to processing

.....in Sydney, MT.  It was cold, so I bought a pair of insulated overalls, and warm jacket at a thrift store that I threw in the dumpster after our final shift had been completed.  We worked 12 hour shifts overnight for about 20 days.  Never again....lol!

We began the final day of our final four day weekend here at LPG&RVR with a shopping foray into Alturas.....also the final trip into Alturas this summer.  The next time we shop we'll be in Minden, NV next week, and the next time we merge onto US-395 will be to go south in the Newell. Highway 395, between Likely and Alturas, is being repaved and they have been working from the Modoc County Line, just south of Likely, to Alturas for the past 3 weeks, so every time we merge onto 395 there is a wait as it is reduced to one lane.  The wait this time was about 15 minutes each direction, so the 20 minute drive to Alturas took closer to 40 minutes this time, and we were not disappointed on the way back to Likely.....I think that construction stop lasted close to 20 minutes.  This section of US-395 has needed repaving for a long time, so we're all willing to be inconvenienced a little, and grateful to finally have new pavement. While we were waiting to go northbound I noticed the church I wrote about last summer had finally been lowered onto its new foundation....

The church has finally been lowered onto its new foundation

Just a few weeks ago it was still on 'stilts'

.....if you recall, this church was moved from the east side of US-395 to the west side last summer......

Waiting to proceed north near the Likely General Store

...we made two shopping stops, one at Grocery Outlet, and the other at Holiday Market before stopping at the local Subway to buy a foot long Subway Club sandwich.  In the four summers we have spent here we have never stopped there.  By the time we made it home it was 12:30 pm.

After eating our 'subs' I took a long nap, when I was awakened by rain on the roof....wait, what?  We weren't expecting rain, but we got it anyway.  Not hard, or long, but enough to wet the car, and gravel road, and reduce the dust.  The rain returned during the early morning hours of Tuesday, and continued on for several hours.  The high temp for Tuesday will be just 62° F, and it appears we may not have any temps in the 70's before we leave next Tuesday, or Wednesday.

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