Taken in the mid 1990's
Northern Maine before the Alaska years

September 8, 2017 - Friday

29 degrees/clear skies/calm winds

Pentoga Road

I happened across some old CD's filled with mostly Alaska pictures the other day. A few have snapshots taken during another lifetime where I taught school and my sons were raised. The above is located in the St. John Valley outside of Madawaska, Maine, just a few hundred feet from the New Brunswick border of Canada. 

Strange, for being as homesick as I once was for the area, I don't miss it at all now. There have been a lot of years gone by and millions of miles traveled since those days. Like I said, a lifetime ago.

Thursday was a busy day. After running several errands in Iron Mountain, I was home by midmorning. 

A large maple turning colors in Alpha, Michigan, a few miles away.

I was creeping around the big curve a mile from the house when I almost ran into a herd of deer. There were several fawns, a doe or two, and a buck. All that was missing was a partridge in a pear tree.

The rest of the day was spent in the shop fashioning a collapsable table from an old chopping block.

The biggest challenge was measuring and fastening the hinges so the top would fold against the wall and the leg flat against the bottom of the table.

As with everything else I build, it took way more time than it should have, but by afternoon's end, the table was finished.

I'm planning to use the table for painting and no doubt, it will occasionally become a temporary catch-all, much as the top of table saw did. I plan to build a shelve above the table today to hold small containers of craft paints and we'll call that particular wall finished.

Hopefully, you didn't hear any of the muttering that came out of my mouth Thursday afternoon. I finally gave up using a small marker and switched to a broad tipped Sharpie. It may not be as pretty, but at least I could see where any cuts needed to be made. Mama would definitely have washed my mouth out with soap.

Sargie was home early last night. We enjoyed a meal of leftovers and watched tv.

My girl opens today then has the weekend off. I'm going to make the shelf, hang a light, then clean and finish rearranging the shop. After, I'll be ready to make some serious sawdust and shavings.

I plan to create an Ebay and Etsy account in the near future and try to market a few of these goodies, mostly the names and puzzles, that I've been working on. 



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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Under the direction of the leading research scientist in AMD and one of the country's foremost ophthalmologists specializing in the treatment of Macular Degeneration, the near infrared treatments began Thursday afternoon.