This is an account of a past adventure. My friend Terry's birthday is August 20th and I suggested to her that we take a day trip to celebrate. She left the planning up to me. I decided to head into the northern Catsills to the town of Margaretville because I knew about a geocache at an interesting place, this old school house in the picture.
We left early in the morning. Our first stop was in Delhi, New York. I wanted to show Terry a very old shop on Main Street. It is referred to as "the old fashioned store". The store has not been updated inside, and the shelving, display cases remind me of when I was a child in the fifties. Unfortunately, the shop was closed today.
On the way to Margaretville, we passed through the small town of Andes. We had not planned on stopping there, but we did. We went into a few shops and looked around. Andes is a very colorful and interesting town. We arrived in Margaretville at lunch time, and found our way to The Cheese Barrel where we had soup and sandwiches for lunch. The Cheese Barrel is a neat shop that sells all sorts of imported food items, but I don't recall seeing any cheese for sale. We checked out a few shops. One is a clothing shop which is in the lobby of an old theatre. We located the old stone school house and I found the geocache.
We headed back towards home in the early afternoon. We stopped in Andes again and had ice cream. Instead of taking our same route home, we decided to go to Hamden. I wanted to show Terry The Lucky Dog, which is a restaurant, bakery and shop. The shop has all original shelving and display cases. It was more of a rural general store than the one in Delhi. We stopped and went inside and spent a few minutes and then headed back to Oneonta. We also stopped to see the Eagles Nest that is visible from the road.
It was a great day!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
9/25/2009 The Sugar Maples Resort, Maplecrest, NY
My friend Judy told me that the summer after she graduated from high school, she worked at the Sugar Maples Resort in Maplecrest, New York. I suggested that we take a day trip and check out the Maplecrest. We finally got to do that on September 25, 2009, a gorgeous fall day.
I picked her up in the morning and we headed towards Maplecrest. We stopped to have lunch at Michael's Diner in Windham, New York.
We had no problems getting to Maplecrest (thanks to mapquest). I was surprised at how small the town was, it seemed like most of the town was part of The Sugar Maples(or whatused to be the Sugar Maples).
A couple of buildings have been remodeled and are used by an art society. The rest are abandoned and empty, and for the most part, they are wide open. (an urban explorers dream come true!)
This is a picture of the main building. Judy worked and lived in this building at first, but after a few weeks she was given a room in a small cabin at the rear of the property. Since there were workmen near the roadway that led to the rear area, we did not go back there.
The front door to the main building was open and I poked my head inside and took a picture, but I did not go in. I took several pictures, some of which are posted in my photostream on flickr.com If you click on the picture, I think it will take you to my photostream where you can access the "set" of pictures of the Sugar Maples Hotel in Maplecrest, New York.
On the drive back, we passed a small church and cemetery. I stopped and got out and looked around. The sign said it was THE SMALLEST ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE CATSKILLS. There is a very interesting green grave marker in front that tells about several Irish girls who perished in a fire.
I would like to return to Maplecrest someday and look around more. So many places to go........so little time.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Lunch at Sal's
A couple of months ago, I won a gift certificate for a large pizza at Sal's Pizzeria on Main Street in Oneonta. Today I asked my co-workers if they wanted to go to Sal's to share this pizza with me. Altogether, there turned out to be seven of us. We had pizza, salad and soda, and it only cost each of a couple of dollars because of the gift certificate. Not much of an adventure, but it was fun to have lunch with Mary, Geneen, Kim, Eileen, Robert and Dave.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Grandchildren
This is a picture of my precious grandchildren. They are not only the most beautiful and smartest kids, they are also a lot of fun to be with. Tyler is so smart for his age. You should see him put puzzles together and play dominos. Cassandra is so smart and she is so good to her little brother. She is the best reader!
The "Adventure" of being a Gramma
Being a Gramma is sometimes a mini-adventure. Last night, my nine year old grandaughter, Cassandra, called me and said she had an assignment to interview a relative about an obstacle that he or she overcame. She said her father was busy and her mother said she was not good at that kind of thing. After thinking about it for a minute or two, I told her this story.
When I was 16 or 17, my father was teaching me to drive. One day I was driving and had a minor accident, I think I turned too hard and the result was hitting a guardrail as I came off of a bridge. After that, neither my father or I were in the mood for further driving lessons.
Several years later when I was 21, my husband was trying to teach me to drive and that did not work out. The only available car was standard transmission and I was not doing well learning that as well as the basic fundamentals of driving. I thought I was NEVER going to get a drivers license! But, I knew that I had to.
According to Cassy, I then needed to tell her how I overcame that hurdle. So I told her what I did. I looked in the yellow pages and found a professional (I stressed the word professional to Cassy) driving teacher, and I took lessons. After a couple of months of weekly lessons, I passed the drivers test on my very first try, although to this day, I cannot really parallel park! So, while it took several years (at least four years since my first permit), I DID finally get my drivers license.
Cassandra, who is in fourth grade, told me last night that her teacher keeps telling her that she is reading at a fifth grade level! Sometimes I am surprised at the words she uses during our conversations.
When I was 16 or 17, my father was teaching me to drive. One day I was driving and had a minor accident, I think I turned too hard and the result was hitting a guardrail as I came off of a bridge. After that, neither my father or I were in the mood for further driving lessons.
Several years later when I was 21, my husband was trying to teach me to drive and that did not work out. The only available car was standard transmission and I was not doing well learning that as well as the basic fundamentals of driving. I thought I was NEVER going to get a drivers license! But, I knew that I had to.
According to Cassy, I then needed to tell her how I overcame that hurdle. So I told her what I did. I looked in the yellow pages and found a professional (I stressed the word professional to Cassy) driving teacher, and I took lessons. After a couple of months of weekly lessons, I passed the drivers test on my very first try, although to this day, I cannot really parallel park! So, while it took several years (at least four years since my first permit), I DID finally get my drivers license.
Cassandra, who is in fourth grade, told me last night that her teacher keeps telling her that she is reading at a fifth grade level! Sometimes I am surprised at the words she uses during our conversations.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Christmas 2009
This picture was taken on Christmas Day, 2009. I can't remember exactly why or how Dad wound up sitting at the kitchen table peeling potatoes, but he did not stay for long. I asked him if he had peeled potatoes when he was in the service, during WW2 and he said "a few times."
January 2, 2010
Today, I stayed home and made split pea soup, started to put Christmas decorations away and
cleaned. I had to spend about a half an hour shovelling snow and moving cars around. Attached are pictures that I took of my two mangers, both were gifts from my sister, and they are my favorite Christmas decorations. The wooden one is from Israel.
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