The turkey is finished just in time for Thanksgiving

November 20, 2017 - Monday

14 degrees/partly cloudy/breezy

Pentoga Road

Brrr, it's a chilly one this morning. Thankfully, the wind finally subsided, so it's not horrible, just brisk. It wouldn't surprise me if we're ice fishing before Christmas, quite possibly in the next week or two.

It was late Sunday afternoon before I pronounced the turkey finished and brought it inside. After working on it for the past two weeks, I'm happy to see the bird completed.

The entire process was a challenge. Making the turkey was the first time that I've incorporated several mediums of art into the same project, the lathe, some carving, painting, etc. 

Time was spent Sunday afternoon cutting another puzzle. This one is of Coleman taken before one of his lacrosse games last spring.

 I think I'll do this one over. I'm experimenting with various finishes and this didn't turn out as I expected.

We eat a lot of cranberries. Sargie buys several packages to freeze when they are available and we enjoy the fruit year 'round. I made a big batch yesterday to enjoy this coming week.

Of course, we'll be taking cranberries, along with rutabagas, to Ross and Holly's to add to the Mighty Milligan Thanksgiving feast.

My good buddy and former superintendent of schools in Sitka, John, sent a picture of the volleyball team in Gustavus, Alaska, an extremely remote community in Southeast. Gustavus is pretty much surrounded by Glacier National Park and accessible only by float plane or boat.

There are twelve students in the high school and all twelve are on the varsity volleyball team. 

Gustavus was in jeopardy of losing their school (K-12) several years ago as there must be at least ten students enrolled in the district to be eligible for state aid. I'm told that a Samoan family with several children relocated and saved the school. I'm guessing the large young man towards the front is Samoan, dwarfing the rest of the students, especially the girl at the head of the line.

Sargie was home fairly early from work last night. I fixed tuna salad for supper and we had a relaxing evening. 

I received my first seed catalogue of the year (NEXT year) and spent time going through each item, circling the interesting items, discarding others. 

If I purchased everything I circled, my garden would be a hundred acres, give or take ten or twenty.

She works from noon until eight today. I'm going to continue work in the shop. I have a new design for a turkey that I'm anxious to try making.

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Isabella took her mommy and daddy to Disney on Ice Sunday afternoon