Thursday, May 22, 2014 Playing the Waiting Game Again...

Bob Stopper sent this site to me last night.  It's an article he wrote last September about a sailboat that sunk on the Erie Canal, near Lyons last September. Who would have thought this could happen on the Erie Canal!! (This didn't create a link, so copy and paste it to read.)

http://www.waynecountylife.com/2013/09/eerie-on-erie-canal-by-robert-stopper.html

Well, we're still in Fairport and playing the waiting game again.  We decided to stay here today instead of moving on to PIttsford, NY.  The canal alert openings that came  through around noon, are on the east end of the canal.  As for the Gennesse River, they are still saying 2 more days....
So, we decided to do what everyone else does in a canal town, walk the canal path.   What a nice path Fairport has to the east and the west.  They have just black topped it, put light posts along the trail, and today the workers are busy landscaping.   The birds are tweeting and flying around and we even came upon a female mallard with her babies.  They must be so use to humans because they let me get very close to let.  All the while, daddy watched from the canal.  There are so many people out and about of all ages!

The rest of the day is to stick close to the boat.  Chuck has taken on the role of the 'Fairport Greeter'!  LOL I'm down in the boat, and I keep hearing  'hello', 'hi', 'hi there', 'hello', 'hello', 'hello'.  Hey maybe if he gets tired of retirement when we get home, he can become a Wal-Mart greeter.....