Happy Birthday!!

 Friday 24 July 2021     HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANE

   Lynne and Rick were here for the weekend and Diane got to spent many hours sitting by the camp fire chatting with Lynne.  She had a great birthday lots of sister time and lunch  in Corning.  They even got a nice kayak trip in staying along the edge of the lake.

   Other than the occasional relative showing up it has been clean fire pits, mow, weed whack, and pickup trash and repeat.  Diane has been doing the majority of the hosting duties and I have been trying to help weed whack and and trim brush back around the sites.

   The biggest thing that has happened is the rain has let up considerably the last few days and things are drying up a bit.  We had 3 plus inches of rain last weekend to the point they closed the lake to all boating and swimming.  It rained almost every day for 10 or 12 days and getting over an inch on four of those days.  And of course when it rains we loose wi-fi or its really poor reception and the satellite dish also craps out. You talk about boring on a rainy day no internet, no tv and just enough cell service to get a text through equals not much fun.

Rudy and Cody looking
quite fashionable!!

 

We did go down state to attend Shane and Morgan's "BaBy Q" and had a great time.  It was very warm, but didn't rain,  the beer was very cold and the food was very good so everyone was happy.  The pool was open so when you got to hot just jump in and cool off.  Almost everyone stayed until a nasty thunderstorm hit and people scurried to safety and that kind of ended the party mood.

There were lots of people in the pool!!

Monday July 26 2021

    Well, things are back to normal now and hopefully we will be doing some interesting things again.
We have Dave and Julie coming up this week, we are going to visit Kate,  hope to get some fishing in and maybe even over to visit the Folk's  at Ives Run and Diane is holding out for a trip to the Corning Museum of Glass.    Internet is working, we have cell service inside the camper and the satellite is up and working.  

Happy 4th to All!!

 Wednesday July 7 2021

   Holy high water Batman when will this weather ever break.  Another week has past but the weather doesn't change.  Rain, thunderstorms and high humidity with sun shine in between.  It hasn't ruined the entire week just made planning the difficult.  But we adapted, improvised and over came the changing weather to have a pretty good time this week.
   First a story you all need to commit to memory for camping in a  gypsy moth infested area.  On our last work day I put my work boots on outside as requested by boss lady of the camper.  No work boots inside the camper.  So my sneakers sat out side all day.  After working all day my feet were sweaty and tired so I sat outside changed into my sneakers.  I stuck my foot in my shoe and 'SQUISH' that much horrid feeling on your foot.  Pulled my foot out and a gypsy month caterpillar mashed on the toe of my sock. Oh gross. Cleaned that up but my shoe back on and squish again on the tongue of my shoe. I ripped that off pulled out the strings and thoroughly searched both of my shoes and naturally there were no more.  But I will never leave shoes outside again.  I hope Diane gets the stains out of my sock!
   On to better times Lynne and Rick came up for 5 days to visit and spend the 4th of July.  We had a great time playing giant Jenga two different nights and even got a game of euchre in the one night.  We took a trip to Corning had lunch and the girls did some shopping.  But almost every day had some kind of rain, not enough to ruin the day, just enough to keep you guessing about your plans.  It rained so much on the 2nd they almost cancelled the fireworks at Ives Run by the time they decided to have them it was to late to go.  Monday the 5th July was a really nice day.  Campfires and wine time just about every evening with wonderful meals every day. Our menu to mention a few things shrimp, clams, steak, stuffed mushrooms, chicken on the grill and even dogs and burgers one night. Oh the food was good.  Lynne and Rick went to Watkins Glenn to the Famous Brands Outlet and top it off, they 👘had an ice cream stop on the way home.  The weather held out yesterday morning for them to get packed and on the road. A good time.
   Diane headed into the grocery store while I did some mowing around our site and before she got back a thunderstorm rolled though and just dumped on us.  A good thing the outside stuff was cleaned up before she left.  We eventfully went back out side but to late for a fire.
   Now today we go back to work(sounds funny) and of course rain almost every day!

We have had so much rain that we have our own crop of mushrooms

growing under the Moho and the tomato plants have gotten really tall!!