Sinai

      Sinai, the the Brookings County hamlet where The Little House is located, claims a population of 120, per the sign on the edge of town. Platted in 2007 when a spur line railroad, from Sioux Falls to Watertown laid tracks, it took its name from the nearby lake. Early settlers passing by the lake after a prairie fire had burned the area revealing the rocky hills by the lake said, "Just like Mt. Sinai." The name struck.

    Locals give the town's name an un-Biblical twist pronouncing it "Sign-yi." Apparently that was derived from the Norwegian. Returning from the Herb Alpert concert last Sunday the GPS was on. Approaching the Sinai exit on Interstate 29, yes Sinai has an exit!, the voice in the GPS, whom I call Amelia after Amelia Earhart, said "Sign-yi" as if a native. How did she know how locals pronounce it?

   There's another clue that Sinai's approaching the big time. Food trucks are big in cities. In Minneapolis many trucks jockey for the best places to park downtown to feed the noon crowds. Nearby Volga, population 1700+, has a regular food truck offering Mexican food. Sinai, not to be outdone, had a food truck parked next to the grain elevator Friday. The elevator was very busy with bean harvest and it continues now with corn. It was so busy that it has even been open Sundays. Farmers coming with their loads of corn can get their noon meal from the food truck. 

   I was going to get a picture of the food truck but a semi-truck was parked in front of it.

Takk for alt,

Al