Day 7, October 9, 2010

Sharon and Danny and I had a great Thanksgiving Saturday. We started the day off with a nice little jog down my local country road. Then we had coffee with neighbors and 790 CFCW fans Art and Dot. They said they had always wondered what Sharon looked like, they had imagined her as more brunette. Then Sharon and Danny got to try their hand at welding. Frank stopped in with his welding truck to show them how to weld. Then we went down to the mine to check out the drag line. Sharon and Danny got to run the dragline and climb the boom. They couldn't believe how huge everything was down there. You can hardly see them up on the boom. Then they took a ride in the coal hauler. We also stopped in at the Diplomat Mine Museum. An interesting fact about the drag line we saw today... the dragline bucket in town that holds 80 kids is 1/7 the size of the one in operation today at the mine. To finish the day, they went horseback riding. Both Sharon and Danny are old riders from way back.