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This Wednesday Eric and Trevor rode on the special edition Adirondack Railroad which gets “robbed” by the Loomis Gang.  The Mystery Company of the Finger Lakes & The Adirondack Scenic Railroad recreate a train robbery as the train departs Thendara Train Station.  There were good guys, bad guys, robbers on horse back and apparently Eric got robbed of his play money.  He came home with a set of pistols that Trevor gave him and a straw cowboy hat.  He has been wearing them to volleyball, his haircut and the pharmacy. Kathryn got him to pose for a picture by allowing him to stand on the kitchen island.

This probably only interests me, but I recently saw the folder sizes of my digital pictures and was struck by the growth in the size over time. I got my 1st digital camera at the end of 2001 and the number of photos taken each year is growing and growing. I know there are times I snap a picture (or pictures) because I want to have something to add to the blog. I am struck by the fact that 2007 is a little more than 1/2 over and I have 2.3mb in digital pictures already. It must be all the weddings and loon pictures!

This past weekend we took the pop-up camper to Whetstone Gulf State Park.  We had planned on going to Soft Maple Reservoir on Friday night, but AGHAST! they were full.  Our little hide away camp ground with 11 sites was full and luckily we were made aware of it just before we pulled out of the driveway.   We had thunderstorms threatening all afternoon and evening so we decided to get pizza and develop a Plan B to execute on Saturday.   Eric and I decided to sleep in the camper parked under the shed anyway and give Kathryn an evening of watching TV on her own.  About 10 minutes after Eric and I settled into the camper a heck of a thunderstorm rolled through - small grape-sized hail and winds followed by torrential rain and lots of lightening and thunder.  the power went out - canceling Kathryn’s TV watching and our camper lights.  The hail and rain on the metal roof was deafening.  Eric and I persevered but didn’t get to sleep very early.

Saturday we packed up and drove to Whetstone Gulf State Park.  Whetstone Gulf State Park is built in and around a three-mile-long gorge cut into the eastern edge of the Tug Hill Plateau.  We d id a little swimming and took a hike to the observation platform. The views would be worth re-visiting in the fall or spring.

This past week we had a couple of 90+ degree days.  Eric and his buddy cooled off by spending the day at Pleasant Lake with lots of swimming and playing in the water.  Both nights he came home tired, but clean and cool.