Clear, Slight Haze, Perhaps Rain Later

6:17

Mitchell, Tommy and Drew

Eating lunch

At the Gorge

Granny with Halle and Hayden

Buffalo Bob and the Girls

Looking for crayfish

Up at 6:15, just Evie and me, as Beth took Ramiro to the airport in Buffalo, leaving at the ungodly hour of 4:30, so she should be back around 7:30.  It's amazingly quiet at this hour, when all seven grandchildren are still sleeping, like waiting for the tornado to hit, perhaps a hurricane is a better comparison. It's 62 degrees, as last night was a good sleeping night.

A full panoply of events yesterday, starting off with Rami biking early, up to Panama, and back, some twenty seven miles.  After an easy breakfast, if it's ever easy with fifteen people, Evie and Beth put together a lunch of wraps, and we all took for for the Chautauqua Gorge, off Hannum Road in Mayville.  It was warm day, but a delicious coolness down in the Gorge, so if wet, we sought out the sun.  We walked the Gorge for maybe a half mile, kids looking for water bugs, minnows, and crayfish, just enjoying the beauty of the creek, then picnicked and swam after about an hour of hiking, then headed back to the house. Nick and Tommy did so road work, running up the side of the Gorge a couple of times, as well as along the trail, as Nick needs to keep in shape for his soccer tryouts when he returns home. We were gone about three plus hours total, as after a while, the older boring boys seemed ready to go.

When we got home, Evie must have spent an hour and a half in the water with the girls, as the adults biked to Mayville and back, about fourteen miles total.  For Tom and Mary, it was a first, so they got a full dose of biking up and down the hills of Chautauqua.  In late afternoon, unfortunately, Halle, the youngest, developed a urinary infection, so Drew, Jill and I drove to the Urgent Care in Jamestown.  She saw a doctor, and was given an antibiotic and seemed fine after the visit.  We met the gang over at the Casino for our usual wing bash for fifteen, followed by play on the  playground, then ice cream cones from the Bemus Country Store.  Tommy took the boat over with the kids, some of us drove, and it was a delightful night to walk around Bemus, watch Chautauqua Idol (pretty bad), and cruise the lake on the way home.  We were home by 9:00 and watched the Olympics on TV, as the American men seemed to fall apart in the gymnastics.

We are staying put today, other than some shopping at Wegman's, perhaps some rock painting is on the agenda.