Sargie's off to work on Tuesday morning

March 20, 2013 – Wednesday

5 degrees/calm/partly cloudy

Pentoga Road

It’s a short one this morning. I drove over to the Vision Center Tuesday afternoon so I could ride back with Sargie after work. I’ll go back over with her this morning and come home.

The weather remains in the news. After receiving another several inches of snow on Monday night, the winds rose and howled yesterday. It’s reported that some gusts were over 30 mph and for a while, our road was drifted completely over yesterday. I heard the plow truck go by around mid-afternoon.

Walking on Tuesday was a chilly experience. It was one of the few times I was happy to be finished and get back home. Usually (and often) I intentionally walk past the house at the end to add an extra mile or two. That wasn’t the case yesterday!

Cleaning the drive was almost futile. I had the chute of the snow blower aimed low as I attempted to throw the snow in a straight direction rather than have the wind pick it up and blow it back in my face.  The drive and other areas were eventually cleared… sort of.

The rest of the day was spent sitting alongside the woodstove grading assignments. A few final projects are beginning to come in and a graduate student even submitted his final unit plan. I hope everyone else does as well. For all intents and purposes, he’s finished for the semester.

I arrived in Iron Mountain well before dark. It was fun sitting in the Vision Center and watching Sargie at work. She’s good at what she does and I enjoyed watching her ply her craft.

The ride home was filled with the usual talking and catching up on the day. Since it was almost 9:30 before we arrived, our evening was short.

Today… I’ll go back over to Iron Mountain with Sargie and drive back home. After that? No doubt, there’ll be a walk and HOPEFULLY, I’ll get in the barn and work on the greenhouse. The winds are supposed to subside, although the temperature is only to be in the lower twenties.

I have to laugh. I was talking to a tried and true Yooper last night who was complaining about the weather. I replied that I was tired of winter and ready for spring.

He took a step back and said, “Well, there, ya know, I don’ feel so badly now about complainin’. If a guy from ‘Laska is tired of the winter then I know it must be bad.”

So there you have it.

Time to get this uploaded and start the day. A man’s work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road…

This farmer pulled out the big guns to clean his lane.