The Young and Restless.
Isabella's, no doubt, getting ready for another night of party action.

May 15, 2016 - Sunday

34 degrees/partly cloudy/very windy

Pentoga Road

When The Young and Restless first aired in 1973, it was written for my generation of youthful twenty-year-olds. With our longer hair and bell bottoms, we were hip and rad, even bad ass, and we thought we were beautiful. Vietnam was drawing to a close and with a college diploma in hand, the entire world lay at my feet. Those were the days.

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Saturday began with me playing kitchen butcher, well, as much as a person can while cutting a tube of ground beef into hamburgers to be frozen for later use.

One of Sargie's sisters, Holly, Nancy, or Jeanne, told me this is the way they freeze their hamburger and it works well. I place plastic wrap between each burger with three in a package. Since the ground beef is already compressed in the tube, it doesn't need to be patted and shaped when one is ready to put it on the grill.

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It was time to meet Mark and Sheri for a day of chatting, shopping, and fun.

Mark pointed the car towards Antigo, Wisconsin, a berg about two hours south of the Michigan border. We made stops at an Insurance Liquidators, a farm store, Menards Lumber, Walmart, a grocery store, and no trip would be complete without lunch.

Sargie's been wanting a windmill for the garden. We found one, seven feet tall when fully assembled, at Insurance Liquidators. Naturally, it comes in a million pieces, so you know what I'll be doing in the near future.

Sargie also discovered a deal on gift bags and loaded up.

It was a fun day, including eating way too much candy on the way home. 

The animal bedding that Mark is looking at was made right here in his plant. So if you need animal bedding, please buy this brand and support our local economy!

I purchased a pump and filter to be used with a small fountain or waterfalls. My eventual dream is to build a fairly good sized garden pond, complete with a rushing falls, but this will let me experiment on a small scale and hopefully, I'll become somewhat educated on what is needed.

It was early evening before we arrived back at Mark and Sheri's and almost seven before we pulled into our drive.

It took a while to figure out what belonged to whom when repacking our car to go on home.

The house was chilly so I started a fire in the stove and played with Brutus after we emptied the trunk. With a forecast of way below freezing temperatures, I also made our first cutting of asparagus for the year. I didn't want any ruined in last night's freeze.

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I think today will be a lazy one. It's to warm up a bit, but with the wind howling, even fifty degrees can seem frigid. 

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Back to the Young and Restless: 

Approximately forty-five years have gone by and our generation has aged a bit. Vietnam has long passed, younger people laugh at the thought of their grandparents once sporting long hair and wearing bell bottoms, but deep down inside, many of us are still young and yes, we're even restless in our own way.  

I have a list a mile long of things to do this coming week and Sargie's next day off is way in the future somewhere. Who says the young and restless of forty-five years ago still aren't hip and rad, and might I say, bad ass, even as we approach our more senior years?  

Excuse me, it's time to get the day started. After all, a man's work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

The first asparagus cutting of the year