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| Grady and Grandma Sargie sharing a bowl of popcorn |
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Pentoga Road
It appears we're in for a couple of days of warmer weather with a bit of rain before cold weather sets in again later this week. The several inches of snow that fell a couple of days ago should all be melted before day's end.
Monday began in the podiatrist's office. My feet were pronounced happy, thanks to the orthotics prescribed a month ago. I declined any pain medication and walked away well pleased and more pain free than I've felt in a long time. The additions to my shoes aren't a cure, but they should provide relief for the long run. The doctor encouraged me to keep hiking.
Ross and Holly live just a few blocks from the doctor's office in Iron Mountain, so I stopped for a visit. They have a gorgeous lakeside home with a huge deck just a few feet away from the water's edge.
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| You'll notice the lake is completely frozen over |
Holly had to leave so Ross and I gabbed for a while after. I always enjoy our time together.
A quick stop was made at Home Depot to pick up a couple of pots of brown and red paint. It's like walking into a Christmas wonderland with all the holiday goodies displayed.
Seems I'm painting so much anymore that it's much cheaper to purchase a $3 pot of sample paint and have it mixed to any color I want than to use small bottles of craft paint, some costing $2 or more each.
The turkey body alone would have used an entire bottle and then some.
The rest of the day was spent finishing another grandbaby project before moving onto the turkey.
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| This is for Abigail who plays on her school's junior high softball team. |
Finishing one last sanding of the turkey's body, I finally painted it, the head, and the hat.
Next came turning the legs and feet, both of which presented their own unique challenges.
Both feet were turned from a single piece of wood, then ripped down the middle.
I used the bandsaw to cut the toes on each foot and am still sanding and carving each.
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| The legs are glued and clamped to the feet. The feet were made out of a piece of fence post, the legs from a scrap 2x2. With the body salvaged from a piece of half-rotten fire wood, this project costs only my time, something I have plenty of. |
I'm not at all certain why I'm so fixated on this dumb cartoon bird. I've spent much more time on it than I have the more serious projects in the shop and it very well might end up in the wood stove yet.
I took a break mid afternoon and walked around the yard. Our front and side yards look like a feed lot in the cattle country of western Kansas.
By the looks of the tracks, there must be an entire herd of deer feeding during the overnight hours.
I was a bit distraught to see a rabbit has been hopping through the orchard and nibbling on whatever he can find. So far, he's left the blueberry bushes alone, but I'm not taking any chances. I set a live trap and baited it with green leaves and tender bark.
It's time for the bunny to go away before he does some serious damage to the fruit trees and bushes.
Sargie and Hambone walked through the door late last evening. Sargie had to close and didn't get off work until well past 8.
We had snacks and played in the living room until 11, way past Pawpaw's bedtime.
Sargie's off today. I'm going to be like a twig in the current and go with Grandma Sargie and Grady's flow. Grady would love to help Pawpaw in the shop, but that won't happen. There are too many power tools to attract too many three-year-old fingers that love to touch everything.
After all, a man's work is never done.
So are the tales from Pentoga Road...
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| Hambone was so excited that he and Pawpaw were wearing (almost) matching camoflage shirts. |
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