Indian Summer Monday

Old Tractors at Busti Apple Festival

Blue Grass Music

Log Chopping Exhibition

Tens and Crowds Around Apple Bins

I was up early, a warm morning actually, with some clouds but it has turned out to be a beautiful fall day, warm but not hot, a southerly wind, quite strong actually, and puffy clouds filling the sky.  Because rain was forecast for tomorrow, we decided to drive to the Audubon, about 35 minutes, and take our walk through the preserve.  It was a great walk, the kind that makes you wish the preserve was closer, as its always great to walk some where different, especially a pine forest woods, across ponds, through open fields.  We met two other people on the way, so it's not very busy on a Monday morning.  We did buy 40 pounds of their bird seed, getting us ready for the winter though we will probably need more.

After our walk, we were close enough to Falconer that we headed to Abers Acres, where we picked a couple of baskets of fall raspberries, plump and juicy, and also picked up a half of peck of Gala apples, some corn and grapes.  It's about 25 minutes from our house, not too far, and we came across a new restaurant, near by the pick your own, call The Pad, with an outdoor seating areas and bar, as well as a cosy indoor rustic looking restaurant.  We will have to try it out with the Mc Clures.  

We got back about 1:00 and were tired, so we have been relaxing, Evie outside reading and I'm in, having lunch, took a cat nap, and watched some of Sports Center.  Later in the day, we cut the lawn, I went off to the library for some books and DVD's and picked up some ice cream (for the raspberries) and sauerkraut, for the pork and tomorrow's dinner.

And, though it's only 75 degrees out, WE WENT SWIMMING ABOUT 5:30.  COLD BUT REFRESHING, AND WE WASHED OUR HAIR, BUT OF COURSE! 

We did go to the Busti Apple Festival yesterday, a very popular gathering here in the area.  It benefits the Chautauqua Hospice, so there's a three dollar fee.  Like last year, it was very crowded, especially the central area of buildings where they have out buildings, most selling things to eat, and outside, where there were craft exhibits, blue grass bands playing, huge troughs of apples to pick and buy, tents with various people explaining their crafts, like soap making, candle making, bee/honey making, embroidering, things like that.  They also had some of the older styles of machines which might be used to take the corn off the cob for pop corn, or separate the wheat from the chaff.  Once you left this major areas, a long street wound out to the south, and it was filled craft booths, like last year, of some of the most unattractive crafts one might come across but it did not stop people from flocking buy.  Little if anything interested us as much as just looking at the people and because it was quite warm, we actually worked up a sweat walking, we stayed for little more than an hour.  It's interesting to go but we both agreed that maybe once every other year might make sense.