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Does this look like a bank? This was a piece of furniture used when banking first was conducted in this area. Interesting!! And it was a beautiful piece!!

We have been doing the home body routine since Saturday and I think that Gary is having trouble sitting around. I keep thinking that one of these days he will get out his pencil art work. He has been washing and waxing the outside of the MH, reorganizing tools, and doing a couple minor repair jobs. Tis good for what ails him.

In the mean time, I have kept up with the photos for the blog. I finally have a handle on resizing, changing the files dates, and naming all of the photos that I have on the computer. Today I did laundry and cleaned inside. Took about an hour and a half which sure beats cleaning a whole house! We will move to Thousand Island area on Monday. Then we will have new sites to check out.

Oh yes, the dates on the photos are incorrect!! Seems I turned the date "on" in Gary's camera and did not realize that the date is WRONG.

Last Saturday we decided to go and check out Syracuse again. We started with the Carousel Shopping Mall and found lots and lots of stores. There was one large restored carousel in the food court. Many of the stores had 50% and 75% off items. I sure enjoyed that, but then Gary reminded me that for everything that I take in to the MH new I have to get rid of an old one!! Can't imagine what he is trying to tell me!

We then found the Erie Canal Museum downtown that we had looked for the day we took the cruise on the canal. It was very interesting. The canal that was in the front of this building did not come out well in the photos, but did get a couple photos of things in the canal boat that was restored there. Can you imagine sleeping on these bunks? They had replicas of both a passenger and a cargo boat. They also had a replica of two canals that were built side by side so that traffic could go both directions. The picture in the museum that Gary took a photo of is an actual canal construction site of that era. When reading the stories you realized that it was a very busy time in history and that the people then (even women) had to be very hard working.

Right after we left the Canal Museum we turned a corner where we saw this house. Captured it on film as I thought that it was interesting! We also thought that City Hall was an interesting piece of architecture.

We headed out west of the city along the Onodago River and came upon a fort that was museum and replica of an Iroquois Fort that was built for the Jessuit priests who came as missionarys to assist with confrontations that they were afraid would take place with the Tuscaraurus Indians from Ohio territory and the French from Canada. It was interesting to see the footwear, and a replica of a canoe that they used. There were demonstrations of spinning wool and weaving as well as a man using iron to make tools. Even though they did have buildings made from logs, they did not look comfortable! I am glad that life style has progressed to what it is today.

We decided this was enough for one day and for the month also. We look forward to going up to Lake Ontario at the end of June. We also hope that we will be leaving the rain behind us. It has been raining every day for more than a week and sometimes two or three times a day! That tends to cool the air more than we like, but we do have sun in between. It will be interesting to see just how much success we have in choosing areas where we will like the weather. I guess we do not have control over that! I am sure the rain is needed.