An Overnight Trip To Letchworth State Park (Glen Iris Inn)

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We are hoping to be off to Letchworth State Park by 8:00, so we are both up by 6:30, and have a lot more to do than we thought.  A huge cloud bank fills Bemus Bay but its supposed to be a sunny cool day, perfect for a hike along the Letchworth Gorge.

Yesterday was cool, breezy, with blue skies and lots of puffy clouds.  For some reason, we did not take advantage of it like we should of, perhaps because we were thinking about our trip this morning. Even though its just an overnight, the decisions we have to make, what to take, what to leave behind, can be maddening.  As much as we have traveled, one would think it gets easier but it doesn't.  It just gets harder and we always over pack, thinking that it's no big deal if we have an extra this or that. Well, it adds up, so we bring an extra bag.  We are hoping to get every thing in a duffel this time, no blue IKEA bags this trip because we are staying in an Inn, not our kids homes.

So, what did we do yesterday?  We drove off to Falconer, to Roberts Nursery because they had some nice privets in June, said they would be half price in late September, so we waited, too long  as it turned out because they were out of them, just our luck.  We are also looking for a tree to take the place of the one we lost in June.  They had a couple of maples on sale, 50% off, and an Autumn  Red Sunset was only 120 bucks, with a three inch trunk.  Of course, there's a cost to transporting it and planting it but it still seems like a good price.  And, after googling the tree, I liked it even more.  We will have to wait and see if we pull the trigger.  We are not good at that though we did buy a car so maybe we have changed.  We also stopped at Home Depot, to pick up batteries for our annoying smoke alarms which went off in the middle of the night, telling us I suppose it was time to change the batteries.  We also looked at refrigerators but they very few in stock that we liked and the one we were looking for, was not available and we don't want to buy one unless we can see it, catch 22.

We were home around 12:30, tired from shopping and not finding what we wanted.  So I made my lunch, avocado and tomato sandwiches, some cauliflower soup and watched another episode of Ray Donovan.  Evie quickly cleaned up the kitchen, then went out to enjoy the outdoors.  It was too windy on the dock so she went to the side year, protected from the wind and read and dozed.  Around 4:00, I took a walk through the Woodlawn/Victoria woods, a nice circle but at the moment, it's overgrown, so I went up with a rake and hacked away at the trail, making it easier to hike.  There are a number of trees down across the trail so if we want to cross country ski in the winter, we are going to have to remove them with a saw.

Neither of us felt like prepping much for dinner, so we had a Turkish omelet, toast, leftover stuffed portabellos and sweet corn.  And just to add a little class, Evie made a peach crisp late afternoon, so with a scoop of ice cream, we were more than happy with our meal.  We watched two more episodes of The Fall, then Bill Maher's Real Time, then off to bed.''

Tomorrow's blog will not be published until noon or later as the park we are visiting, the Glen Iris Inn where we are staying has no wifi.  So we are going to live without the internet for twenty four hours.  Yuk.