Day 2

We left rather early this AM, before 8:30 and headed west on first 370 and then 70. e The light was out on the brake controller so we found a trailer sales along the way and they showed Peter where the fuse was, that fixed it.  We also picked up a nice little trailer tongue BOX to hold the extra gas in for the generator.  It's just the right size; doesn't hang over at all; and we got it for 10% off, plus the kid there screwed it onto our trailer tongue just in front of the trailer.  Very nice to have this, I'll be able to put the extra gear for the hitch (wheel chock, wheel foot, chains, etc) into it as well as carry the gas outside the trailer.

We're on the road heading for Kansas city and have decided to turn north there to catch I-80 up by Omaha, NE.  We're going to spend the night at Rock Port, MO and I'll start working on my shelves in the trailer. 

 We have alot to ship out too, have to get a "walky Dog" off to Belgium.  I have been selling a few of them internationally through the internet.  I've picked up two new products in the last three weeks of dog shows, illuminated collars and leashes and garden flags that have dog heads on them.  Both items are very nice and will be a good addition to my booth.  Neither of them take up alot of space but should bring in a good percentage of the total sales.

The biggest seller that we have is the leather that Peter is making, he does such a beautiful job, people can see the difference between what he does and what the others do.  He measures each cut from the previous one, and most of the others eyeball it... makes for a big difference in how the leashes look. I get comments all the time about how his looks so professionally made, they believe me because we do custom orders overnight.

The Missouri countryside is beautiful, no leaves on the trees yet but with the bare rock and the brown leaves on the ground with green peeking through it makes for great scenery.  There was alot of flooding in the eastern part but here in the west side of the state the hills let all the water drain off quickly.

We talked to some people from Oregon who came out here and bought a partially underground house.  The roof and one side is above ground, there are quite a few underground houses in this area.  Peter and I have been talking about living underground, we'd like to get a silo and renovate it but they are currently going for about 1/2 million.  So that's a dream but we like to talk about having a house like that with all the electricity that we can generate with wind, water, solar panels etc.