Santa is alive and well at the mall in Green Bay, Wisconsin

December 9, 2015 - Wednesday

36 degrees/cloudy/calm

Pentoga Road

I'm in a bit of a rush as I have a mid morning meeting with my money man, the one who manages my vast coffers of wealth. I guess it's time for our six-month confab and I'm assuming he'll say the same thing he usually does, that we're doing okay, not getting rich, but there's enough change in the account to pay next month's electric bill. 

Page Two

Sargie and I were out of here bright and early on Monday morning bound for Green Bay.

Lambeau Field - Home of the Green Bay Packers and some say, Baby Jesus. 

We shopped here and there, all around the square, saying, "Catch me if you can." 

Yeah... never mind, it was worth a try.

Sargie was a shopping machine, a girl who had reverted back to her natural state. 

Most of the afternoon was spent in the mall. While Sargie shopped, I parked myself in an easy chair to join the gaggle of other old guys whose wives were shopping. The day went by quickly and at one point, I may have dozed off.

I was happy to see that the stores weren't very crowded. While at Sam's Club, I wandered by the meat department and received a real sticker shock. I've never seen a hunk of meat sell for over a hundred dollars.

No trip to Green Bay would be complete without a drive-by of Lambeau Field. I had heard that Aaron was out of town, so we didn't meet for lunch. Still, I enjoyed the ambience of the neighborhood.

I've already asked. Sargie won't let me mount a big letter G on our home. Where's her sense of Packer Pride? 

After a quick stop at Harbor Freight, Sargie steered the car towards the UP. Filled with supplies, presents, and other goodies too numerous to mention, once home, it took almost an hour to unload everything, get the dog exercised, the fire going in the stove, and settled in for the night. 

Not reindeer, just white tails, at Cabelas.

Sargie closes tonight, but will arrive home late this evening with Grady. I'm going to head to Iron Mountain this morning for my meeting, then make a quick trip to Home Depot for a couple of items. This afternoon will be spent hooking up a water line for the new refrigerator that is due to be delivered Friday morning. I'm also going to trim half an inch off the overhead cabinet. 

With that being said, it's time to get Sargie up for the day and put this body in motion.

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Yeah, I agree. I look mighty good sitting on it, but with a $32,000 price tag, I'm not overly optimistic that Santa will be leaving this tractor under the tree Christmas Eve.