As forecast, today was cloudy and cool with rain showers most of the day. We were very fortunate in that the heavier rains stayed to the south of us. Down by the Twin Cities some areas got 7 inches yesterday and overnight. We need a week of sunny weather to dry us up--there is still a lot of standing water. That's very unusual for this time of year.

John worked down in the shop for a while this morning and afternoon. In between the rain showers he took care of a couple of outside jobs--draining the hoses and putting them away and also draining the fish fountain and storing that for the winter. The rest of the fall jobs will have to wait until we return from our trip.

Today I straightened up the house and finished packing clothes and a couple of little projects to work on next week since I'll have plenty of down time. Since the fridge is cleaned out, we just ate a frozen pizza for supper. John then went up to Clearbrook to watch the 7th grade football game--I elected to stay at home since it was cool and raining and I didn't feel like standing outside and getting cold and wet. The 7th graders won 40 to 6 over their arch rival--Bagley.

The packing is all finished and only a few things remain to be loaded in the Honda tomorrow morning. My evening was spent watching the season premiers of CSI and The Mentalist--two of my favorite shows. John spent time on the computer and then watched some TV. We hit the road early tomorrow morning for our East Coast adventure.