Cold, failed fire, buggies, Mark, Heather, and a weird solar house. Retirement party and Little River Band!

 It is getting colder here.  I tried to start a fire.  Epic fail, but everyone has now clued me in to fire starters.  I purchased some, we shall see how that works.  By the way, you can cook marshmallows over a candle...  Smores, yum!

 There is a large Amish community in upstate New York.  Buggy signs are all around and of course, I had to try to get some pictures!

 Welcome to Canada.  We went up on Sunday to visit Mark and Heather.  We had a lovely time visiting.  The picture below is Heather on their porch.

 The following picture is of a house we passed on the way to Mark and Heather's place, we just had to take a picture on the way home.  The solar panel on the roof rotates to capture as much sun as possible.  There are solar arrays all over this area of Canada.  The government sponsored solar power, and many Canadians took them up on it.

 One of the places I work at, had a retirement party for a CRNA.  They kindly invited me to join them.  This barbershop quartet were wonderful to listen to, and Terry joined in (he was in a barbershop quartet also).  Terry retired at 74 years young. I wish the best for him and his family.

We were able to see the Little River Band last thursday.  They were great to see on stage.  Good show, I forgot how many hits they had!  Yes, I sang along with all of them!

 On the Little River Band facebook page, there are actually pictures of me, holy crap, did I get old.  I'm not going to post those pictures.

We are doing little to nothing this weekend.  It was 37 degrees last night.  We are using all the different heating systems in our motorhome.  Next week is Ian's Birthday.  We have a Brunch train trip through the Adirondacks scheduled!  Should be fun.

Fire, wine, friends and more!

 The leaves are starting to fall at our latest campsite.  I tried to build a fire, I really failed.   I did burn through a lot of bounty paper towels.  Then, with a half @ss fire burning, I tried to cook hot dogs.  I will not make it on survivor...  But my hair smells of wood smoke, and wine always makes the food taste better!

We went to Skaneateles, one of the finger lakes in upstate New York, to go on a dinner cruise.

We went out with Mid-Lakes Navigation on a 3 hour tour.  I know, the song is going through your head from Gilligan's Island.

 It was a lovely dinner cruise, the food was, OK, the narration difficult to hear, but it was a beautiful evening and we had nice company at our table.

This is Phil (on the right).  He is a CRNA and is going to do what I am doing now!  Yea for him.  He and Jakey are the ones that invited us to go on this outing.  We were also invited to dinner at their (soon to be empty) apartment in downtown Syracuse.  Another CRNA joined us (Siggi)!  We had such a GREAT time.  Great food and conversation.  We are lucky to meet such great people.

These are a few of the upstate wines I purchased.  Do not run out to the store to get these, but they are not bad.  A little on the sweet side, but interesting.

Oh, I forgot, we sent to the Destiny Mall in Syracuse.  One of the largest malls in the country.  I think we saw on fourth of it.  We gave up and went to the Cheesecake Factory!  A mall, is a mall to me.

Besides that, I miss you all and will be back in November!  Where from there, we do not know!

Family, Beer, Boats and Beef on Weck

Ian's Brother, Mike and his wife Toby came over to visit!  They braved the hurricane in Florida to get up here, we are so lucky to have them as extended family.  We visited and went out to dinner.  It was their 50th anniversary a few weeks ago, BIG CONGRATULATIONS!  We wanted to take them to a nice place, but they opted for simple (with a beer!) meal.  I can't believe I didn't get a picture of them!  

We went back to Turning Stone and ate the the Upstate Tavern.  I finally had "Beef on Weck"  It was delicious!  Basically a french dip sandwich on a "Kummelweck" roll.  The roll has caraway seeds and kosher salt.  dipped in the au jus, yum.  A martini for me and a beer for Mike, wine for Toby and much to Ian's dismay, more Pepsi.

We took a drive to Lake George last weekend.  It is about 2 and a half hours from where we are.  A very nice drive.  This is a touristy town on a beautiful lake.  

The weather was beautiful and we took a boat cruise up to the "narrows" of Lake George.  Before our cruise, we ate lunch at a little cafe on the boardwalk.

Perfect weather, high 70's, slight breeze.  It was a great way to spend Sunday!

Still alive!

Evinrude, our cat, is still in her collar, so we haven't gone on any overnight trips.  We came home late Sunday and just relaxed on Labor Day.

New views and man eating ducks!

 We are in a different site, we moved last night and will be in this lovely site until Monday

Ian's foot, was bitten by a duck!

Besides all of the loveliness, I finally got my first paycheck!  Yea!..  Work is good, but money in the bank definitely pays the bills!