jeff kushner
Well-Known Member
Fantastic trip up to the Adirondacks for a few days. Went up to stay with friends in Indian Lake on Lake Abenakee and it was like Golden Pond kind of stuff but without R.W. coming out of the water, sucking her tummy in like a 13 year old girl trying to make her boobies look bigger...lol.
The woman had been Kerry's 9th grade teacher and Kerry babysat for her family, then taught her kids when she became a teacher herself! They had bought 20 some acres up there 35-40 years ago with 2 houses on it for $40K. They sold off the unbuildable land using the funds to enhance their own property. We got to stay in the new house and wow!
The dog was a beast...but still showing scars from a Pit Bull attack from one of their kids rescue dogs. Phoebe is gorgeous!
Great time, lots of canoeing.....our benefactors were both much older than me yet they were in remarkable shape which showed itself on the lake. We found a secluded section and I managed to find this one lone turtle in the entire lake. There are multiple reasons why they can't get a good foothold but I suspect that the resident Otters play a large part. The other odd thing is that they fill and drain the lake to provide a plume of water to the Hudson for the Outfitters on the river. The lake they fill it with is 90' deep and very cold where this lake is 10' deep and quite a bit warmer. The effect of raising and draining a lake this size by 5"-6" and then dropping it over 12 hours....and doing that 3 times a week HAS to be devastating.
Fort Ticonderoga has always drawn me.....no idea why but was super pumped to go! I'm sure I had read it but I didn't realize that there had been so many cannons there! No wonder it was on the list for "places to see" for Ethan Allen and the Green Mtn boys when they joined the others and took the fort for the cannons!
Guess which building is New? LOL
Please, don't pay attention to that last sentence........LOL
I've always been compelled to touch special things.....of course I did since we all know, we never get another chance to! This is 1 of 10 left on the planet.....darn right I touched it!
Whos got balls?
The ones on the right side with the holes are Howitzer shells, the 2 smaller ones are the American Grenade and the British grenade at the end.
The cannon balls are in pounds....14, 11, 12, 8 and down
Roll your own?
I was surprised to learn that many American soldiers used these molds and they needed the other sizes in case they were issued a different caliber weapon. Apparently, the British being much more standardized, did not need so many options.
The Hudson river gets small up here~it's about 10-12 feet wide.
This pretty guy landed on...well, we couldn't photograph it THERE so I gently swooshed him and he landed on one of the chairs.
and Ed & Chris had multiple Humming bird feeders throughout their property but the one that was busiest, was in the shade of the trees....making it difficult for my camera to capture......but I couldn't let Ms Cathie down.....so here we are!
I took 280 pics.....be happy that you only had to wade through a dozen or two.
So in the past year or so, we've explored Fort Sumter while we were in SC last summer, Fort McHenry a couple weeks ago and now Fort Ticonderoga.................kinda cool....maybe Kerry will assemble another book for us, with just the Forts! She makes vacation books online after we come back. Sometimes it take a few months for her to do it because she waits till it's "unlimited pics"!! LOL THAT's my girl~!
The woman had been Kerry's 9th grade teacher and Kerry babysat for her family, then taught her kids when she became a teacher herself! They had bought 20 some acres up there 35-40 years ago with 2 houses on it for $40K. They sold off the unbuildable land using the funds to enhance their own property. We got to stay in the new house and wow!
The dog was a beast...but still showing scars from a Pit Bull attack from one of their kids rescue dogs. Phoebe is gorgeous!
Great time, lots of canoeing.....our benefactors were both much older than me yet they were in remarkable shape which showed itself on the lake. We found a secluded section and I managed to find this one lone turtle in the entire lake. There are multiple reasons why they can't get a good foothold but I suspect that the resident Otters play a large part. The other odd thing is that they fill and drain the lake to provide a plume of water to the Hudson for the Outfitters on the river. The lake they fill it with is 90' deep and very cold where this lake is 10' deep and quite a bit warmer. The effect of raising and draining a lake this size by 5"-6" and then dropping it over 12 hours....and doing that 3 times a week HAS to be devastating.
Fort Ticonderoga has always drawn me.....no idea why but was super pumped to go! I'm sure I had read it but I didn't realize that there had been so many cannons there! No wonder it was on the list for "places to see" for Ethan Allen and the Green Mtn boys when they joined the others and took the fort for the cannons!
Guess which building is New? LOL
Please, don't pay attention to that last sentence........LOL
I've always been compelled to touch special things.....of course I did since we all know, we never get another chance to! This is 1 of 10 left on the planet.....darn right I touched it!
Whos got balls?
The ones on the right side with the holes are Howitzer shells, the 2 smaller ones are the American Grenade and the British grenade at the end.
The cannon balls are in pounds....14, 11, 12, 8 and down
Roll your own?
I was surprised to learn that many American soldiers used these molds and they needed the other sizes in case they were issued a different caliber weapon. Apparently, the British being much more standardized, did not need so many options.
The Hudson river gets small up here~it's about 10-12 feet wide.
This pretty guy landed on...well, we couldn't photograph it THERE so I gently swooshed him and he landed on one of the chairs.
and Ed & Chris had multiple Humming bird feeders throughout their property but the one that was busiest, was in the shade of the trees....making it difficult for my camera to capture......but I couldn't let Ms Cathie down.....so here we are!
I took 280 pics.....be happy that you only had to wade through a dozen or two.
So in the past year or so, we've explored Fort Sumter while we were in SC last summer, Fort McHenry a couple weeks ago and now Fort Ticonderoga.................kinda cool....maybe Kerry will assemble another book for us, with just the Forts! She makes vacation books online after we come back. Sometimes it take a few months for her to do it because she waits till it's "unlimited pics"!! LOL THAT's my girl~!
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