I worked for several hours on Tuesday preparing the ground to expand the garden.

September 17, 2014 - Wednesday

45 degrees/clear/calm

Pentoga Road

It's becoming a race against time to get everything finished before snow flies. The past two days have been almost picture perfect, although I recorded a low of 29 degrees early Monday morning. We went from having scattered frost right into freezing nights with cool days. 

I went fishing Monday evening and other than hook into a large fish which was on the lure for all of three seconds, I had no luck. The wind was blowing, the temperature was in the forties, and I about froze to death.

I'm still building a shelf a day.

There were two fruit trees, an apple and a pear, that barely made it through last winter's deep freeze. After attempting to coax them back to health this summer, I finally gave up and pulled each from the orchard.

Several hours  were spent on the backhoe Tuesday doing some landscaping, making the area ready for next spring's garden expansion. I hope that I might start making raised beds before snow flies later this fall.

The people from my internet provider FINALLY came out to fix the poor connection. Water was found in the connections to the radio that receives the signal. The fix took all of twenty minutes or less.

If you look closely, you'll see the antenna way at the top of that large spruce tree alongside the house.

I've spent an hour or two each day working up hard wood for this coming winter. Below is a combination of birch and maple. Both were cut last fall and spent this past year under a tarp drying in preparation for this year's heating season.

Brutus and I had a chat last night mapping out today's activities. 

It appears that several of my giant pumpkins are almost white rather than the traditional yellow. These are from the seed saved from last year which makes me wonder what they cross pollinated with. This year's "giants" aren't as big as last year's, but they'll be just fine to carve into scary faces for the little ones.

Sargie opens the Vision Center today and should be home early this evening. Better, she's off tomorrow AND this weekend. I'm hoping we'll get the rest of her things from the storage unit and begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel on that project.

I'm going into town fairly soon and purchase some roofing tar. The flashing over the living room took a beating last spring when the snow melted, froze, melted, and froze. I also need to finish sealing the flashing on the storage shed.

I think I'll look at mileage tickets for flying out to see the sons next month. Andy will fly there and I'm hoping all the boys might get together for a day.

But first, it's time to listen to the news and have another cup of coffee. After all, a man's work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Planning today's activities simply wore the pup out.