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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 barn. While we were vacationing at Keuka Lake our floors were refinished. They are bright and clean. Below looking both ways up and down the hall.
The living room and bedroom showing Kathryn’s new closet.
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 the Lake and 90 minutes of fireworks. At times there were 12 simultaneous fireworks visible from our viewpoint on the dock. Monday Kathryn, Eric and Debby went to Roseland Water Park. Tom and I went to the Glenn Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport. Tuesday we stayed home to swim and in the evening we drove to Victor to shop at LL Bean and met Pat and Janice for Dinner . Wednesday Kathryn, Tom and Debbie went on a Wine Tour while Eric and I swam and had water gun wars. Thursday we swam and fished. Friday we returned home.
When we weren’t in the water and spraying each other we had marathon Sorry games – below Eric and Debby do battle. 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 the Skelly Family reunion. There were 120-130 attendees. Each family unit was organized by Tribe. The tribe of John Francis Skelly is shown below.
Back row: Tom, Debby, Tim, Sarah, Chris, John, Billie Jo, Reid, Danielle, Pat and Janice 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, the British put in motion an ambitious campaign designed to isolate New England from the rest of the colonies and thereby crush the American rebellion. For two months, General John Burgoyne led his army down the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor toward Albany with apparent ease, capturing several American forts along the way. In August, however, he found himself in desperate need of provisions, wagons, cattle, and horses. Burgoyne then made the fateful decision to send an expeditionary force to the small town of Bennington, Vermont to capture these much needed supplies. At the Battle of Bennington, which took place between August 14 and 16, the British army and its Canadian, Indian, and Loyalist supporters faced Patriots defending their newly proclaimed independence. What might have seemed like a minor victory for the Patriots contributed to the British defeat at Saratoga a few months later and thus helped decide who would win the American War of Independence.
We also did a walking tour, looked at all the painted street moose and spent a couple of hours in the hotel pool to combat the heat. 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 started up as we drove home on Saturday roughly about noon. Trevor accompanied us. We did some fishing both from the canoe and shore-side. The boys went swimming on Thursday and Friday – or at least were in the water for games of ‘Mother May I’/”Your Majesty May I’ and Red Light/Green Light. They rode their bikes around the campground continually and we had vicious games of Sorry.
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