Side Tracked from errands

Gary has been on a mission to get a converter box installed for the TV to be compliant by January, and it may take him that long to get it done, if things don't begin to go better. He bought a box from Best Buy while in Salem and has not been able to get it to work on our old Magnavox. After many phone calls for help, he decided to go to Camping World and get a Winegard since the antenna in the MH is that make. On those trips near Syracuse we decided to take some side trips and sight see. After the sight seeing, Gary found that their box would not work either. So that meant another trip to Camping World. Of course, Gary says that if a repair job does not take at least three trips to the store it would be because he is not the one doing to repair! The sales clerk at CW thought the problem might be the aluminum antenna as it must be a painted one to work. So we made a purchase and after some more sight seeing, we came home and he got on the roof in spite of the acrophobia and installed it. Did it work?? Not!! We are not making another trip to CW but will stop there for them to install on our way through when we move on to Thousand Island area. Why isn't anything every simple? On one of the trips we stopped at the Harriett Tubman House to tour and as we arrived so did two couples in their 1930 Model A's. Guess where they were from! Avon Lake and east Cleveland - - - - Ohio that is! Harriett Tubman was a black woman who helped over 300 slaves to freedom over an 11 year period. She was called Moses of her people. She first lived in this brick house in Auburn NY which has not been restored yet. She later bought the white house next door and turned it into a home for elderly and those in need. She lived here until she died at age 92. They were not homes of the Underground RR. There is a Seward home in Auburn NY that was U RR and I would like to go through it yet before we leave the area. William Seward was her life long friend. This carving depicting her leading the slaves on their journey is the original that a life size was carved from by Kellogg of Kellogg cereals of Battle Creek, MI. It was very interesting. We also stopped in Seneca Falls, NY as it has much to see. We looked at locks on the Seneca River which are now operated by hydraulics and a flood gate that is used to keep the river from flooding the locks. This is also the location of the Women's Rights Museum and a monument to this. I liked this church which was built right on the river's edge. Wonder if it every gets flooded? Gary liked this sail boat and would have liked to take more photos but thought it might bother those on board . This was in the canal area that was actually rebuilt to encourage industry to move in along the river. After all of this industry died off or moved away the only actual factory left standing is The Knitting Mill you see here. It is a shame, but the locks were actually flooded and covered. Today we stopped in Baldwinville, NY for lunch along the River and watched a couple boys fly fishing and also watched this mama duck and her young ones. I guess that it is time for me to quit for the day. Hopefully, I will get time tomorrow to finish the scrap books that I am doing. I still have a couple projects to finish before I can get back to my photo scrapbooking. You'd think that I should have lots of time, but we keep running around. We still haven't done anything in Syracuse. Maybe next week. I don't know if I've mentioned before, but we have been attending a UMC church which is a contemporary service somewhat like ours at First Friends, except very informal. The messages are very good, the music is modern though not the songs we know. But we've been thankful for it. Knowing we will be moving on does not build relationships though. Oh well, one can't have everything.