Grady, Macrea, and Mel, stopped into the Vision Center to see Grandma Sargie on Sunday

June 30, 2014 - Monday 
68 degrees/partly cloudy/calm
Pentoga Road

No time to write today as we're heading to Mackinac Island for the next couple of days. I believe Sargie said there'll be fourteen of us going, all Milligan Family, so it'll be a fun time. No doubt, there'll be lots of pictures taken and stories to tell. 

Meanwhile, here're the pictures from the past thirty-six hours.

I finally got the holes dug for the new addition

Some of my figures to decide exactly where to place the treated posts. I'll have Yooper Brother Mark check and double check my calculations. Hey, I'm the guy who failed algebra twice in high school and geometry three times... and went on to become a teacher.

Changing the bucket on the backhoe

All thirty tomato plants have been staked, wired, tied, or caged.

If the leaves are any indication, I should have giant pumpkins again this year. They are just beginning to blossom.

The gooseberries are full and plentiful.

I spent two hours on Sunday picking and cleaning strawberries. Most of these are going with us to Mackinac City to share with the family. As niece Marley says, "They will be a good snack!"

Speaking of snacks, I popped a huge bag of popcorn to take for everyone to munch on.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of butterflies line the holes I dug for the footings

So, it's a busy and exciting time on Pentoga Road. We're dropping Brutus off at the kennels this morning and after a quick trip to the dentist so Sargie can have a tooth fixed, we'll be meeting in town and leave from there. 

We're staying on the mainland in Mackinac City and will be visiting the very historic Mackinac Island on Tuesday. Hopefully the weather will be nice so we can play on the beaches of Lake Michigan. I'm certain Aubrey, Marley, and Brielle, will help me make sand castles.

After all, a man's work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...