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Andy sent this from his boat, currently off the coast of Equatorial Guinea Africa, where he's supervising the crew that is moving an oil rig.

October 26, 2019 - Saturday morning

27 degrees/clear skies/calm winds

Pentoga Road

Andy sent several interesting pictures yesterday. More about those in a bit.

Okay, now I'm really losing it. First, it was the case of the missing toothbrush. That's been solved. 

Seems that somehow or the other, it ended up in Sargie's hands yesterday and after discovering she'd used the wrong toothbrush, pitched it in the waste basket. 

Insensitive woman! She doesn't seem to realize that it was my lucky toothbrush, the one that prevented me from having any cavities this past year. 

Oh well, no sense crying about it now.

I went to download yesterday's pictures a few minutes ago and I can't find my camera. Sargie and I, both, were using it yesterday and it's disappeared. No doubt, it's hidden in one of our coat pockets, the car, on a dresser... it could be anywhere, but so far, the thing has alluded me.

Thankfully, Andy sent some pictures so today's blog is not without it's color.

I was out in the shop first thing yesterday working on the Hutterite girl and boy. I sanded a bit here, dabbed some paint there, but I think, the pieces are ready to glue together. I'm going to sneak up to Jambo's burn pile from his old barn after bit and see if I can find a weathered piece of barn board to use as a background. 

Sargie and I took down the first of two ash trees up at the neighbor's alongside the road. The first fell into the field. We backed the trailer up just a few feet away which made loading easy. 

The real challenge comes today when we drop a much larger tree that is leaning towards Pentoga Road. I think I'll be able to lay it in the ditch alongside, but we'll be taking the Ford tractor just in case it falls the wrong way and I need to push it to the side. 

Friday ended with a wonderful ride around the area. We checked out a couple of lakes and enjoyed the bright sunshine and temperatures in the upper forties. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing which made it seem colder than it really was.

Onto my world traveling youngest son...

Andy sent this picture of a small boat fishing FORTY MILES offshore by their oil rig. 

He said he didn't know what they were catching, but they were hauling in fish one after another.

Reminds me of when we hunted bearded seals in the arctic. Elmer, my Inupiaq brother, and crew (me included) took off in a very small boat and we ended twenty miles out surrounded by ice bergs. These guys were over twice that far away.

I'm heading out to the shop fairly quickly to start gluing the Hutterite kids together. Later on, Sargie and I plan to drop that ash tree and get that out of the way. With a nice day forecast, we'll take our ride and do what we do best, enjoy each other and life.

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...