Election Day!

November 6, 2012 – Tuesday

29 degrees

Pentoga Road

Election Day 2012! Regardless who wins, I’ll be so happy to see it over. Gone will be all the negative commercials, accusations, polls, and other garbage that have clogged our airwaves for the past year.

Monday was spent cutting and chipping popple trees. I can begin to see a teeny light at the end of the tunnel. Regardless if its completed this fall, there won’t be nearly as much to do next spring. With up to two inches of snow forecast for this afternoon, my cutting days could be drawing to a close.

Whoops, a popple tree fell on the Man Truck. Thankfully it didn't mar or dent the almost perfect finish.

Snow… two inches today, another inch tonight. I need to get the Blazer into the shop and have it made ready for winter use. In relatively good condition, it’s older and seems as though some electrical component is always working at the fringe. Currently, it’s the signal lights. Sometimes they work, other times they don’t.

Son, Luke, with a large beaver blanket from the one he trapped earlier this week.

It was time to venture into town on Monday afternoon to see Barber Bob, but I soon discovered a sign hastily taped onto the door. He was closed to attend a funeral. I’ll try to get in today after I vote. If I don’t get a haircut fairly soon, I’ll be wearing it ala Willie Nelson complete with pigtails… or I can always go the old hippy route. I laugh when I see a male, my age or older, completely bald on top, with his eight or ten hairs pulled back into an anemic ponytail.

I stopped by the plant and saw Mark. While there, I ordered a couple of loaves of homemade oatmeal bread. It is delivered locally once a week and really good.

Digging cold-sensitive gladiola bulbs on Monday afternoon

I was chilled from sweating while working outside earlier and upon arriving home, decided to cuddle up to the wood stove. I may have closed my eyes and snoozed for half an hour. It sure felt good.

There was five miles to hike before sundown. It went by quickly and I arrived back home just as it was getting dark.

Migratory ducks on one of the local lakes

We ate leftover meat pie for supper. I’ll be glad when it’s all gone. Sargie’s creation is so good that I don’t have enough sense (or will power) to eat just one piece. I rolled out of my chair last night feeling like a pig. Just throw me a bushel of corn.

Sargie is off early today. She voted early and doesn’t have to worry about getting to the polls. I think I’ll vote first thing this morning then visit Barber Bob. I hope to cut and chip more trees later today.

Tonight will be spent watching the election results. I’m hoping for a change of administration. I don’t know how our country can survive by borrowing more and more money and taxing those who are lucky enough to be employed or have an income.

Between escalating fiscal irresponsibility (by both parties), social welfare programs, unsustainable Social Security and Medicare, socialized healthcare, and illegal immigration, I’m fearful that our country might come tumbling down and become something other than the republic we’ve known for the past two-hundred-plus years. It happened to the Soviet Union. They certainly weren’t too big to fail. I’m sure China and many other countries would be there to help pick up the pieces.

So, I’ll keep my fingers crossed and exercise my privilege to vote… at least that’s one thing that hasn’t been regulated by the government… yet.

Luke also managed to get a small cow moose (465 lbs) yesterday in northern Maine. The meat should be out of this world delicious!

2:54 PM

I’m having a difficult time getting this uploaded today. After writing this morning, I followed Sargie to the town hall so I might vote. After, I headed to town and visited Barber Bob. My locks are now shorn and I once again feel human.

It’s snowing! Actually, there have been several heavy snow squalls during the day, but none is sticking. It appears that any accumulation will be minor if any.

I’ve worked all day on my upcoming ALST 600 class and am very pleased what I’ve found on the internet and what research I’ve done. My eyes are about ready to fall out, so I think I’ll quit for today and listen to coverage of the election on the radio. It’ll be a long evening in many homes tonight and if the count is very close, I doubt we’ll know any more in the morning than we do now.

Time to get this uploaded.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road…

A downy woodpecker working over the old apple tree