Hollyhocks, or as Grady calls them,
"Auntie Hollyhocks" after Sargie's sister, Holly.

July 19, 2017 - Wednesday

53 degrees/clear skies/calm winds

Pentoga Road

Tuesday saw another .7 of an inch of rain fall from the skies. As Dad used to say, "we got a good soaker."

More wildflowers along Pentoga Road

I enjoyed my morning walk and paused long enough to stop by our local lake to watch the fellows from the DNR work on the boat ramp.

I was most impressed with the excavator operator, spinning the boom around and picking up huge buckets full of concrete.

I've decided to trade in my backhoe for an excavator this size. Just think of the holes I could dig with this baby!

Once home, I began work trimming and mowing the front half of the old popple woods.

The equipment was moved, the grass mowed, then everything moved back. Even the old Man Truck cooperated and roared to life.

A quite a bit of time was spent on the backhoe removing a tree stump. I thought it would be an easy task, yet from start to finish it took over an hour.

The storms arrived mid afternoon bringing rain and wind. I moved into the shop and decided to turn a trowel handle on the lathe.

I began by choosing out a piece of maple from the firewood shed. 

It took some figuring, measuring, and a lot of guess work, but in the end, the handle was fashioned and using epoxy, fastened to the trowel.

There was a part of the handle that split at a knot, but a bit of epoxy not only fixed, but made it stronger than before.

After a quick trip through the shower, I drove to Iron Mountain so I could keep Sargie company on her drive home. Strong storms were forecast and I hated for her to drive alone. As it turned out, the storms had dissipated before we left Iron Mountain.

We enjoyed brats on the grill for supper. That, along with Sargie's chicken pasta salad, made a great supper. Thankfully, there were plenty of leftovers to enjoy later this week.

I'll ride back to Iron Mountain this morning to get the Blazer. I think I'll stop at Home Depot and purchase enough material to make another section and a half of privacy fencing. After that is built and installed, I'll be ready to begin hauling wood for this coming winter.

It's time to get this show on the road.

It seems no matter where I look, there are deer. These two greet me in the same place almost every morning while on my walk.

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...