• Friday was a most interesting day. I got the girls from school and we went to Mobridge. I covered the football game while the girls went to my mom's place. They were having a rummage sale, but their grandmother said the girls could have whatever they wanted. They ended up with two boxes of goodies, much of which my mom had made over the years.
• Meanwhile at the football game, I approached the gate and saw a gatekeeper. He sure looked familiar. He looked at me and said the same thing. We intro

duced ourselves. Bob remembered me when I loaded the Coke trucks in Mobridge when I was in my late teens. That's just a few years ago!
• I got settled in on the old crows nest at the field. I decided I wanted my other lens and a sweatshirt, which I left in the car. On my way back to the car, I went the gate again. There was another guy there. Bob said, "He's from Groton," to the guy. Then he comes up to me to verify I was from Groton. I said yes. He asked if I had a cooler. I was a little hesitant on that question, wondering where this discussion was going. I just said no.
• Then he asks me if I knew Duane at the gas station. I said yes. "Do you know his sister, Sue?" I said I heard of her, but didn't know who she was. He asked if I could take a box of steaks back to Groton. I said that would be no problem. In fact, I told him my car had an appointment with Duane's at 8 in the morning. We were all struck by the irony of the timing. "You won't even have to take the box out of the car then," he said. The guy was Stoick from the food store. He went back to the store and packed up the steaks in dry ice and put them in the car.
• After the football game, I went back to my mom's place to pick up the girls and their treasures. We took off about 10:15.
• I planned to stop at the station in Selby to get a bag of chips to munch on to help keep me awake going home. Just outside of Selby, a truck was moving very slowly on the road and the vehicle in front of me veered off to the right side of the edge of the road to avoid a collision. I had to do the same thing. It was a little scary. So I was not paying close enough attention to my speed coming into Selby. I slowed down as I approached the station. Yup, there was a vehicle from the Selby Police Department with his lights on following me.
• Oh boy, I figured I was going to get a ticket. He looks at my driver's license and says, "Oh, you're from Groton!"  He said I was going a little fast coming into town. (Meanwhile in the back seat, Julianna is sleeping, but Jeslyn is wide awake. Jeslyn

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