Oh What Fun

Baldwinsville, NY
43 09.34 N 076 19.77 W

I haven't been blogging much for the past couple of days because we've been having so much fun and so many activities.

We had dinner with old dear friends Gerry and Phyllis.   Gerry and I go way back to 1962 as freshmen in the dormitory at Clarkson.  Thank you for the great evening.

Droid at quick draw

The next morning, our granddaughter Katelyn came on board to spend a few days with us.   She is such a pleasure to be around.    She's a beautiful, talented, well behaved and very thoughtful young woman.   She now prefers to be called Katie rather than Katelyn.  Name changes like that give me a particularly hard time.  My niece Lena changed her name to Ilan.  I've been struggling with that change for several years.

Anyhow, Katie, Libby and I have been having great fun.  Friday night, there was a free concert here in Baldwinsville.  They said it would be Led Zeppelin appearing.  Actually it was the Aerosmith Tribute Band –Draw The Line with Special Guests Kane and Mike Ryan Duo.   As you can imagine, there was a big crowd.   We moved Tarwathie as far away from the crowd and the noise as we could.  We could still hear the band just fine.




Last night was time for 4th of July fireworks over the water on the Seneca River.   Again, Libby and Katie stayed on the boat to avoid the crowd.  But I crave the up-close feeling of fireworks shock waves so I moved as close as I could.  I was a bit disappointed right up to the finale.  The finale, lasting perhaps 15 seconds was one of the best I've ever seen.   The final burst was pure art boom-boom-boom-boom-boom  boom-boom (shave and a haircut, two bits).

B'Ville Fireworks

However the real highlight of the weekend was ladies day with Libby and Katie.  Baldwinsville has lots of small shops, some of which are women's boutiques.   Libby gave Katie $30, and told her to spend it wisely.  She sure did.  After three hours, the two ladies came back to the boat.   Katie had a beautiful new hand bag.  More, she had presents for her mother, and sisters as well as herself.  They ate lunch in the famous B'ville Diner where Libby introduced Katie to those old-fashioned machines which let you select songs on the juke box from your table.

Of course, that was the high point from our point of view.  For Katie, it was the moment she discovered that she could get on her Facebook account with my computer, and using a free WiFi from somebody's nearby Linksys modem.   The low point was when I told her that I was out of text messages in my cell phone quota.  :)

Katelyn Marie (; <3

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