Sargie's looking over a very full Menominee River in Niagara, Wisconsin

May 30, 2015 - Saturday morning

50 degrees/cloudy/breezy

Pentoga Road

I noticed a warning light flashing when I opened the internet browser this morning. Naturally, there's a freeze warning in effect for the next two nights with temperatures forecast to drop well into the twenties. I had nothing special planned for today other than work up the trailer full of wood, so I'll be spending time getting out the frost blankets, styrofoam cups, and old ice cream pails in preparation of covering all the delicate garden plants later this afternoon. 

I'm a bit concerned with my giant pumpkin plant. It's about outgrown the Wall of Water and beginning to spread. It will get covered one way or the other.

Frost is one thing, but this freezing business is beginning to get old. I registered 19 degrees a week ago when several delicate plants were frozen solid even though they were covered. Hopefully tonight won't be so severe.

Friday was a fun day. Sargie and I left Pentoga Road fairly early bound for Green Bay. Though we'd heard horror stories of road construction delays, we only ran into a couple and both required very little wait time.

We made several stops during the day doing more window shopping than actual purchasing. 

Lambeau Field towers over much of the city. It seems the Packers and much of Green Bay is already gearing up for another big season ahead.

I saw this portico and swing combination at Sam's Club and immediately decided I had to have one just like it. Naturally, I'm not going to spend the big dollars required to purchase such a thing, but I will take some time and effort to build one. Just another project for this coming winter.

It was mid-afternoon before we faced the car north and began our drive back home. A stop was made in Niagara, Wisconsin, to take some pictures of the very full Menominee River. There are flood warnings out for the Michigammie River near Crystal Falls today. The recent rains have swollen all the local rivers and streams.

We stopped at our favorite greenhouse in Florence, Wisconsin, to purchase this summer's red geraniums along with several other types of plants and vines. 

Vegetables are my department, flowers and pretty stuff falls into Sargie's. She doesn't have to work next Tuesday and will plant them after the forecasted cold spell is well past.

I became very angry late Friday afternoon while checking the garden and yard and saw that a deer had pruned two of the three tomato plants growing in the large raised planter by the barn. 

With Sargie's help, I strung an electric fence around the terrace, protecting both the planter and the strawberry pyramids. Thankfully, I had a spare charger.

Sargie is back to work today, but has Sunday off. With highs only forecast to be in the fifties accompanied by a goodly breeze, I hope to finish working up the wood in the trailer today. The wood that the neighbor gave me a couple of weeks ago needs to be covered with a tarp and still another pile, that worked up last year, needs to be moved to the shed for burning this coming winter. With the much-cooler temperatures, it's the perfect day to don a pair of jeans, a flannel shirt, and some work gloves, and get down and dirty.

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...