Congratulations to Coleman for wrestling his way to 2nd place in the New England championships!

March 25, 2018 - Sunday

10 degrees/clear skies/calm winds

Pentoga Road

From what I know, grandson, Coleman, lost a heartbreaker in this season's final tournament. Congratulations, buddy!

Between all his medals and trophies, Luke's going to have to build a separate room in which to keep Coleman's hardware.

Saturday was a mellow day on Pentoga Road. With well below normal morning temperatures, I found myself in the shop turning the first Easter egg of the season.

Made from a scrap piece of pine fence post, I decided to do something different, a relief turning that resulted in the ribbon sticking out from the egg.

I later scored the ribbon and colored it before putting a coat of poly over the entire thing. I found that I'm a bit rusty on my egg making skills, but no doubt, I'll make several before Easter gets here.

Sargie and I made our way to Home Depot where I purchased enough treated lumber to build a new strawberry planter.

I had difficulty finding fifteen boards good enough to bring home. Most were warped, cracked, and one about fell in two when stood on end.

I'll be writing a letter to the good folks at Home Depot corporate asking why they insist on trying to sell such an inferior product. Doubt I'll hear anything from them, but at least I'll get it off my chest. 

We found Yooper Brother Mark and Sheri parked in the drive when we arrived home. They had a shirt I'd bought in LasVegas in their luggage and had brought it out. As always, we enjoyed a good visit and it was fun to talk about the trip.

Sargie and I gathered about ten gallons of sap last night before calling it a day. The temperatures never rose far past freezing and coupled with a fairly strong breeze, there wasn't much sap in the bags. That all should change in the next three days with highs up to fifty forecast.

This is Sargie's last day away from the Vision Center. Neither of us want to see her go back. Oh well, just two and a half more years and she can join me in retirement.

I'm going to remove several taps this morning from dry trees, those that, for some reason, never seem run. There always seem to be a few and I've yet to understand why. Wanting to get as much sap as possible in the shortest amount of time, I'll find other trees that are good producers. 

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

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Isabella's sporting her new fashionable basket at Saturday's Easter egg hunt.