It was another cool, damp morning at 58 degrees when we woke up. Fortunately it warmed up a little later in the day with the sun coming out, but the wind was too strong to use the boat. We are fortunate we are not getting the scorching heat wave that a lot of the country is getting, but I would love a few warm days. Since it was not a good boating day, we decided to visit the Antique Boat Museum’s Doebler Storage Museum a few miles away from the downtown museum.
Continue reading “Antique Boat Museum’s Storage Facility 07/30/2021”Randy’s Birthday: Dinner and Boat Ride to Dark Island 07/26/2021
We started celebrating Randy’s birthday early with dinner on Saturday night with Bill and Gail and ended it up with a boat ride to Dark Island on Monday. It was a little windy so the ride back was a little bumpy and a storm was building so we didn’t stop for a late lunch, but it was still a good day. Hopefully Randy enjoyed his birthday!
Continue reading “Randy’s Birthday: Dinner and Boat Ride to Dark Island 07/26/2021”Clayton: This time by water! 07/23/2021
Since it was Friday there was a little more boat traffic on the River today, but it was a pretty day so we wanted to get out while we could before the weekend. It had warmed up from the 57 degrees we woke up to, but I still needed a sweat shirt for the boat ride. It felt great in the sun, but the air was still chilly.
Continue reading “Clayton: This time by water! 07/23/2021”Oswego; Lock No. O8 – 07/212021
Peter asked us if we wanted to meet him for an early dinner and look at the locks in Oswego. Sounded good to us! We met him at Lock No. O8 and then had dinner at Azteca Mexican Grill on E. Bridge Street in Oswego. Randy said they had the best margaritas and I said they had the best fajitas EVER. And I have had a lot of fajitas in various restaurants so these were really good!
Continue reading “Oswego; Lock No. O8 – 07/212021”Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site 07/19/2021
It was not what we planned for the day, but when we were driving near Sackets Harbor, I convinced Randy to stop so we could explore the Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site. The grounds and views were gorgeous, the self-guided tour was informative and the tour guide did an awesome job explaining what life was like for the Commandant, his family and servants living in the house prior to the Civil War.
Continue reading “Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site 07/19/2021”Antique Boat Museum, Clayton 07/17/2021
We enjoyed our day with Bill and Gail visiting the Antique Boat Museum in nearby Clayton. It was another cool, damp day with light showers, but it was still a lot of fun. Even thought we had been to the museum two years ago, it was still interesting to see the antique boats again. They have such a large inventory of boats, the exhibits are not all the same as our previous visit. I know Randy especially liked talking motors/engines with Bill.
Continue reading “Antique Boat Museum, Clayton 07/17/2021”U.S. Eisenhower Lock, Massena, NY 07/15/2021
We took advantage of the nice day to visit the U.S. Eisenhower Lock in Massena, New York. This lock was constructed on the portion of the St. Lawrence River known as the “Long Sault” by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Originally named the “Robinson Bay Lock” the lock was renamed for President Dwight Eisenhower after his term was over. It is one of the seven canal locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The $30 toll charge per lock from pleasure craft vehicles traveling downbound is collected from the officer in charge at the Eisenhower Lock. The tolls for upbound traffic are collected from the officer in charge at the Snell Lock.
Continue reading “U.S. Eisenhower Lock, Massena, NY 07/15/2021”Clayton, Classic Cars, Coyote Moon Wine and Friends 7/11/2021
So far most of our days here in Alexandria Bay are cool with showers. Had a line of strong thunderstorms roll through Thursday night with cool weather and a few light showers on Friday. At least the thunderstorms waited until after we helped Peter and Paulla move cars so they will have their car here once they arrive by boat. We are still eating pie that they brought as part of Peter’s family tradition of bringing pies on their first trip to the Thousand Island area for the summer. I really don’t think we will have any left by the time they get back next week.
Continue reading “Clayton, Classic Cars, Coyote Moon Wine and Friends 7/11/2021”Fourth of July Weekend 2021
In anticipation of the 4th of July holiday, the park started filling up on Thursday afternoon and by Friday night there were only a few spots left. We watched a solid line of RV’s line up at the office starting about 1:00 on Friday and the line did not end for at least 3 hours. We even got to meet our neighbors for the first time. We did not have any special plans for the weekend, other than friends visiting on Monday, so we had a relaxing few days. Most of our projects had been completed so we did not have any work to do which allowed us to spend some time by the water to watch the boats drive by.
Continue reading “Fourth of July Weekend 2021”Chores 07/01/2021
The weather has been cool and windy so we spent a lot of time catching up on projects that needed done in the Dirt Yacht. Living in the RV is not much different than home–there are still chores that need to get done!. We also had ShowHauler owners coming to look at our RV to help them make final decisions on their new rig, so I wanted to get her cleaned up a litte.
The first project I tackled was cleaning out my closets. The shirts in my closet were musty smelling so I took everything out, and washed them. I am not sure if they smelled musty because I have so many T-shirts stuffed in the hanging closet, or if it was because we had closed the RV up without air when we went to visit Ryan and left the Dirt Yacht in the driveway. I did quite a bit of laundry when we first got here, but did not realize we would be charged electric. I have not gotten our electric bill from Swan Bay RV Resort for the month of June yet, but I hope it’s not too high. (Update: Swan Bay charges .2697 per kw hour. That is ridiculious. I only pay .122 in the Keys) Before I put everything back, Randy built me some new shelves so my clothes could be better organized. I was even able to give Randy an extra part of one cupboard which made him happy. Now if I can just keep everything organized. Maybe a week or two!!