Love Them Lutherans

We changed our itinerary a bit.  I had our next stop as Glen Elder COE campground near Glen Elder, Kansas.  But, since we toured Mushroom Rocks on Tuesday instead of today, Glen Elder was a bit too short a day.  So, here we are in Deshler, Nebraska.  Go ahead, Google it.  It's a little town of less than 1000, but about 99% is German Lutherans.  There are three churches, two Lutheran churches and a Presbyterian church.  There's a Lutheran school almost as big as the public school.

The town (city) has a nice city park with 10 RV spots.  Good thing it's October, though, as there isn't a tree within 100 yards.  But, the city offers these sites with electricity free of charge.  The sites are all along the street and intended for the RVs to back up to them.  But, we're pulling Coors and not another camper is around (except for the unoccupied 5th wheel that's parked out away from the actual sites).  So, we just pulled in across 3-4 sites parallel to the world.

Ditto found out the hard way (so did we) that Deshler's main crop seems to be goat head burrs.  They are everywhere.  Ditto was so pitiful.  We'd be walking along and she's be ranging out on her leash when suddenly she'd pull up with one foot in the air and we'd had to pull a burr out of her foot.  She and we tracked some into Pumpkin and Joyce found them with her stocking feet.

We took a walk into town...

The park is on what one might consider the wrong side of the tracks except the tracks have long been removed.  However, they used to pass through town just the other side of the tin building on the left.

We had to hurry our walk as it was approaching sunset and the town was rolling up the sidewalks right behind us.  We did see a sight that I felt was noteworthy.  It was some big metal silos.

Now, they may not seem noteworthy to you at first, but notice the top of a couple of the silos.  They are all bent up.  Fifty feet or more above the ground and they are bent way up there.  Now how did that happen?

Tomorrow we'll head on up north and west along the Sandy Hills highway.  It is touted as a beautiful and interesting trip, although out here it doesn't seem to take much to impress.  I guess it's because it can be a long ways between the "oh's" and "ah's".