Ivy

November 30, 2016 - Wednesday

31 degrees/partly cloudy/calm winds

Pentoga Road

Ivy sure is a happy girl, eh? Wouldn't you love to have all her worries? Let's see, eat, sleep, getting the diaper changed, loving, and laughter... it's good to be almost one year old.

I think I'm going to live. I'm not sure what bug came galloping through and claimed my body, but it seems to be subsiding. Leastways, I feel somewhat better this morning. 

All I did yesterday was sleep. After seeing Sargie off, I lay back in the recliner and snoozed until early afternoon. No matter how hard I tried to stay awake, I couldn't. There were two or three times I started to get up and do something constructive, but in the end, I'd nix the idea and return to the recliner. 

It was the lack of firewood in the house that forced me to abandon my sleepy ways by mid afternoon. Like it or not, I needed to haul some more in.

Hmm, there was a definite improvement. I decided to walk around outside, maybe stick my nose in the shop.

I've been wanting to turn a ball, an ornament, for the Christmas tree. A raw piece of maple salvaged from the wood shed was placed on the lathe and though I've never made a simple ball, I figured I'd try.

The simple act of making a perfectly rounded sphere was a new challenge, but a lot of fun.

In the end, I came out with something that resembled a ball. For a while, it looked more like a something a trailer hitch might fasten on to. 

Now it's time to make an ornament.

Other than run the vacuum over the floors and a dust rag over the tops of the furniture, that was my entire day. Not much in the excitement department on Pentoga Road these past couple of days.

Sargie was home late last night after closing and bedtime came soon after. I had no trouble falling asleep or slumbering the night away.

As soon as it gets daylight, I'll be putting the tire back on Sargie's car. 

Sargie discovered she had a flat tire the morning before last and has been driving the Blazer to work. She took it to the tire place in Iron Mountain yesterday. 

I'll probably do very little today other than sit on my backside in an attempt to put an end to this nasty virus. I've only been up for a bit over an hour and already, I feel as though I could take a nap.

It's time to end this and get the show on the road, even if it means another day of rest and sleep.

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Brother in law, Ross, sent this picture yesterday. Grady went to visit Holly and Ross for a short while on Tuesday afternoon.