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On Wednesday Kathryn and Eric took Amtrak from Rome to WDC with friends Linda, Bonnie and Cindy. They visited the National Zoo on Thursday and the Mall on Friday. Our friends Kent & Kathy flew in on Friday with their two daughters Marisa and Julia. Everyone returned to Rome by train on Saturday. [...] Saturday morning I went to look at a horse. Lotza Hot is a 9 year old AQHA mare that is western pleasure bred – by of Hotroddin Zippo who is by Zips Chocolate Chip and out of a mare by Hotrodders Jet Set. On her bottom side she is out of a mare sired by [...] Colin Fletcher, author, and the father of modern backpacking, died June 12 of natural causes. Colin’s books were a early influence on my outdoor experiences. I read his The Complete Walker series multiple times and my parents owned The Man Who Walked Through Time about his solo hike through Grand Canyon. I [...] Thursday Eric finished his 1st year of pre-school at Little Acorn. Attendance was 9:30 – 12:30 on Tuesdays & Thursdays. They held a picnic at the Trenton Town Park with lots of play time toys. We have some pure white wild iris out in the pasture. They are not fully in bloom yet, but coming on strong. That is the positive aspect to walking down in the pasture. The negative is the goose poop left by the 3 families of geese that moved to the little pond. [...] Saturday Kathryn and Eric were on their way to check out a garage sale and they discovered a male wood turtle crossing the road about ½ mile from our house. Kathryn recovered the turtle, we took some pictures, and we relocated the turtle to a woodland stream environment. This turtle may have [...] You’ll first look up an address , but this trick only works if the address is centered (it’s centered by default). So, moving the map around will not make this work. When the address you want to find latitude and longitude for is dead center, copy and paste this code into your browser bar: javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter())); [...] Sunday we joined Ed, Kelly and Phoenix in celebrating Izzabella’s 2nd birthday at the Burnett Park Zoo. It was a really hot day, but an enjoyable stroll around the zoo. Below Kathryn, Bella, Eric and Phoenix pose – they wouldn’t let them in with the real tigers. June 1-2 Skip, Bob, Steve and I paddled the Tioughnioga River from East Homer to Chenango Forks – roughly 40 miles. The Tioughnioga River is a narrow river with several twist, turns and easy “swifts” to keep paddlers engaged. The water level gauge at Cortland (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?01509000 ) was showing 3.1 feet with [...] |
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