Our Volley Llamas team finished in 1st place in the 7 team “Family/Recreational” League.  We had an opening bye and played vs. Finndale Farms, who gave us challenging matches every time we played [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/08/22/volleyball-wrap-up/ The Ballard of Bill (and Rob) Our Sand Fleas team was looking good Of the ten team league 2nd place we stood.

We were playing that night in position round Against 1st place Swingers who had beat us sound

The team gathered early for the 7pm game Except for one, who shall yet be named.

There was Jim, Rob, Cathy.  Kathryn and Scott But [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/08/15/the-ballard-of-bill-and-rob/ We have been blessed with wonderful weather during our vacation.  We went swimming every day – usually twice.  We did jumping competitions from the dock; swam to a large nearby rock for sunning; and twice we took out the pontoon boat for tubing and swimming in the middle of the lake.  We played Jump or Dive, [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/08/08/toddy-pond-maine/ We hiked into a nearby gorge hunting trilobites.  It was a steep path down by the bridge.  The bridge is hinged and was hauled in two sections and bolted together.

It was a short hike downstream.

Everyone got looking.  Skip and Kathryn ponder the rocks.

Eric decided to try going behind the water fall. Kathryn [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/07/25/hunting-fossils-in-trenton-gorge/ My sister Barbara gave her husband Joe a balloon ride for two as a Christmas present.  Joe asked me to accompany me on Sunday morning for a balloon ride out of the Columbia County Airport conducted by BalloonNY.  Saturday we drove to Delanson to stay overnight and arose at 3am to drive to the airport in [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/07/12/balloon-ride/ As part of our home remodeling we ended up with new hardwood flooring where the walls were moved, where the old bathroom was and where we ripped up the carpet in the living room.  It was a lot of work to move all our furniture out of the house and stored it in the upstairs or [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/07/10/new-floors/ Tom & Debby were visiting from Seattle for the Skelly Family Reunion.  Following the reunion they booked a camp on Keuka Lake and invited us to spend the week with them.  It was hot and sunny with temperatures in the 90s every day.  Sunday we went grocery shopping and swam.  Sunday night we watched Flares Around [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/07/09/keuka-lake/ The week prior to the 4th of July weekend we worked to empty our house of furniture such that all the hardwood floors could be refinished while we were gone.  Saturday morning Billie Jo came to our house and we drove 2 cars to Syracuse to meet with Ed & family and proceeded to Rochester for [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/07/04/skelly-family-reunion/ We left home on Sunday afternoon to travel 3 hours to Bennington, VT to meet our friends Kent, Kathi and Julia who were visiting from Eugene.

We met them for dinner Sunday night and then played tourist on Monday.  One item of interest was the Bennington Monument celebrating the Battle of Bennington.  During the summer of 1777, [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/07/01/bennington-vt/ We celebrated Eric’s completion of 1st grade by going to Soft Maple for 3 days.  Eric finished up a 1/2 day of school on Wed and we left on Thursday morning with a plan to return home on Saturday afternoon.  Our trip ended up to neatly fit between rain storms which occurred on Wednesday night and [...]]]> http://www.theswirl.org/2010/06/30/schools-out-lets-go-to-soft-maple/