Look who rolled in today.
It's Larry the Heavy Equipment Guy!

June 14, 2020 - Sunday evening

60 degrees/clear skies/breezy

Pentoga Road

It's been a good day, one in which Sargie and I began working up the maple slab wood and where Pat and Debbie, Sargie's brother and sister in law, came for a visit. We made a new friend, Rob, and as you read above, Larry the Heavy Equipment Guy began landscaping the area between the garden and the road.

Larry the Heavy Equipment Guy arrived mid morning. We surveyed the large pile of giant rocks and pieces of an old barn foundation before he began.

I was shocked at the size of boulders Larry the Heavy Equipment Guy was pulling from the ground. There was no way my smaller backhoe could have budged the massive rocks.



Sargie and I were taking a break from working up next winter's firewood when I heard someone calling my name from the road. Rob, from Olivet, Michigan, is in the area on vacation. He told us he is a daily reader and said he's been wanting to meet Sargie and me for quite some time.

We had a pleasant visit with Rob who claimed that meeting us made his vacation to the UP. 

Whew, that's pretty heady stuff.

Thanks, Rob. It was good meeting you too.



We'd just finished visiting with Rob when Pat and Debbie pulled in. We had a great visit. 




Brother Elmer sent some great pictures from the arctic. The first is of his youngest daughter, Carrie, holding a monster trout that she hooked and landed.

Now thirty two years old, the former Miss Arctic Circle has two children and knows more about arctic survival than most adult Alaskans, including those you see on television. Carrie and I were close and I've always thought highly of my Inupiaq niece.

The following picture is of my nephew, Aya. Elmer said he and a friend harvested an Oogruk that weighed in excess of 1,600 lbs. The bearded seal is a popular subsistence food in the arctic.

I'm not certain what Monday will bring. I hope to finish sawing the hard wood slabs currently in the trailer. It needs to be emptied so we can go to Iron Mountain and purchase another three sheets of siding for the garden house.

Larry the Heavy Equipment Guy said he'd be back Monday evening to continue landscaping. The work he did today has already made a huge difference in our yard.



It's almost bedtime and as we all know, tomorrow's a new day.

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

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Some of the boulders are almost as tall as Sargie