Eastbound: Our 2006 Adventure

DAY 30: From the Lake back to Baldwinsville… and Beyond

Thursday July 20th: After breakfast and a morning walk, Daryl and I took a canoe ride around the lake (I never did get its name!), admiring the white water lilies, the beautiful scenery, the view of their new lakehouse from the water, and so on. I took dozens of pictures but, incredibly, managed to erase them all, even the one of the great blue heron who took off in front of us!

Daryl sent me some substitutes, so here’s a look at the lake and their new place. They have, as you can imagine, lots of company!

Back in B’ville, I surprised Uncle Ted with a phone call, and had a wonderful (but too short) visit with him and Jeanne. My dad’s brother, Ted is 86, but was at the office when I called him! See, work keeps you young! (Doesn’t bode well for my “early retirement.”) We might have had a longer visit, but they’d just been visiting Cousin June in Lakewood a few weeks earlier, so we were already freshly caught up.

Then I picked up Nan and we went to Warners, where my mother and her two older brothers grew up. (The three older siblings were already in college by then, I think.) Nan showed me the house, our grandparents’ graves, and the church. Then we got on her computer and downloaded the photos I'd taken, which made me think the camera was safe to empty, and that’s how I lost the Lakehouse photos! Sometimes I get technologically impaired.

Then it was back on the road to get to Blaine and Judy’s. This time I made it by bedtime, more or less, so I was getting worse again. Maybe though, you’re beginning to see how I put all those miles on the car!

posted by SLW @ 7:59 AM