July_3

Northeast '06 July, p.3

Here are some pictures of the work the ladies were involved in. First, the painting...

Then, taking care of the flowers...

There are a lot of flower beds around the camp, and all needed weeding.

Two other funny pictures... That's Ed stranded on the floating dock (the ladies painted it, we had to row it out and then add the ladder). First, we forgot one tool, then another, etc. Had to eventually row out four times.

The second picture is of a tree section, or rather two tree sections grown together.

Friday, July 14 to Sunday, July 16

Back to Montreal. Frank was watching the July 14 parade in Paris when we arrived. It was interesting to watch all of the uniformed services parading in step to a marching band. The French Foreign Legion marched to a slower beat, 80 to the minute, as opposed to 120 for all of the others.

We celebrated July 14 with a steak and chicken shish kabob barbeque.

We got this picture by email a few days ago of the three grandchildren Anna, Caden and Mary on July 4. They each painted their red shirts...

Monday, July 17 to Monday, July 24

Back at Camp Shoshanah. We worked there until Monday the 24th, and took off towards Tupper Lake where the Wild Center Museum is. Here are some more pictures of the camp beach. On Saturday night, we went to Ausable Forks (about 10 miles away) where we had a free concert with the North Country Joggers and the Too Tall String Band. It was good fun. On Sunday, we had a hot dog barbeque over a wood fire on the fire pit shown on the right. Trout Pond is pure Adirondack!

We got to Tupper Lake and found a free spot next to the lake to spend the night.

Monday, July 24

This is the view from the municipal park in Tupper Lake, about 200 yards from where we had parked overnight.

Tuesday, July 25

A rainy day. We had planned to go early in the morning to the Wild Center, a new Adirondack nature museum near Tupper Lake, but the rain held us back until later in the morning. When we decided to go anyway, we found that the place was packed...apparently a good place to be when it was raining. This is one of the best museums we had visited, with about 75 live species of animals, including river otter, and all sorts of fish. Here is a pike, a dragonfly and some stink frogs. We spent about 4 hours there.

We went to the beach at Wolf Pond later in the afternoon, but instead of paying for a campsite there, we returned to the same spot near the Tupper Lake municipal park for another night.

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