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Canajahorie Monday – Tuesday to Lock 7

The prime mover needed an oil change so we made a trip to NAPA in Canajahorie Monday morning for oil and filters.

Decided to bag the rest of the day and make it up tomorrow.  Cooked a chicken vindaloo for dinner.

Tuesday, brilliant day, still and bright, got started at 8:30

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Not a breath of wind but a chill in the air (temp about 60F)

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Utica to Canajahorie – August 4

Raining hard in the early hours so held off a start until it eased at 9:45am

Plan to run Locks 19 through 14 today (all down) for a total descent of 120’ over 40 miles, may be tight given our late start.  Especially as we are getting into the area that was worst hit by the rain damage in the late spring.

Signs of remediation work everywhere, dredgers old and new

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A rainy day in Phoenix (NY not AZ) – August 1

Rain stopped play today, a good internet connection and lots of time, but not a lot of action.

During yesterday evening “Frances” arrived, a big old tug out of Troy, she rumbled in quietly and moored across the canal at the big boys wharf.  I think the crew went to Sammy’s Sports Bar up the street for dinner and a few brews.

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Down in the forest……

Flintinge Byskov

Something stirred. So faint that I scarcely heard,
But the forest leapt at the sound,
Like a good ship homeward bound.
Down in the forest something stirred,
It was only the song of a bird.

But it was quiet inside the 5,200-year-old burial chamber, just a stone’s throw from our front door. It’s what’s known as a ‘passage grave’ – referring to its construction, not its purpose! Excavated 140 years ago by the then-landowner, about the same time as our house was built for his gamekeeper-cum-forest bailiff.

Cape Vincent to Oswego – July 31

Left the village dock at 7:45 am as the weather forecast called for increasing winds in the afternoon, and it’s 55 miles of open water across Lake Ontario to Oswego.

It’s a big lake (a great lake if you prefer) about 160 miles East to West and 60 miles N-S.

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