On a Saturday

So.  A post actually posted on a saturday.  First, i want to bring to your attention something Melissa observed on our way home from Maine the last two times.  This time, like good engineers, we remembered to mark the coordinates on our GPS so we could look it up later.  It appeared to be a large, long pipeline and we weren't sure what it was for.  I looked it up on old faithful Google Maps when we got home and as it turns out, it crosses Route 9, but it begins at Searsburg Reservoir.  I stumbled upon another blog that shed much light on what it was.  Here is the link to the blog: http://isquangle.blogspot.com/2007/02/searsburg-dam-and-power-station.html.  It turns out that the pipeline is called a "penstock". It carries water from the reservoir 3.5 miles to a small hydroelectric plant.  It is 8 feet in diameter and it was all built in the 1920's.  Very impressive and i think we will stop there next time we go by....at least take a slight detour to the reservoir.  Of course, that will make our overall trip time longer, but i think we can handle the delay. lol


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So, today, I went with a group of 14 men from our church to Letchworth State Park http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/79/details.aspx.  We went on a Kayaking trip on the Genessee River. We put in at 42.598256,-78.006985  You can plug this into Google Maps if your interested.  I couldn't get it to plot a route along the river.  It wouldn't let me plot a route driving, biking, walking, or otherwise.  So i will have to resort to giving the lattitude and longitude of the 'put in' point and the 'take out' point. lol  The water was pretty low and we got hung up on some rocks here and there.  BUT it was very fun and I enjoyed hanging out with some guys from our church.  We put out at 42.615976,-77.993955.  Google shows this to be under water, but the level of the river was so low, it was not.  We had a bus drop us off and pick us up at the end.  It was really fun and a great day for a trip like that.

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Here are some pics of the fun we had.  It ended up being a pretty lazy trip because the water was pretty low and slow.

 Everyone getting ready to Put In

 Midway Group Picture

 A Picture of the river, people, and the 500 foot cliff beside us.

 We were hungry after all the paddling.

The Middle Falls at the Glen Iris Inn.

We also are having Abigail, a friend of ours from college, up for the weekend.  She and Melissa spent the day getting breakfast together, going to garage sales, and getting lunch together.  I got home from my outing and made a double batch of pizza dough for tomorrow, fresh tomato sauce for the pizzas, yogurt, and we ate spaghetti for dinner.  We are having a family from church over for homemade pizza and wings for lunch.  We love our pizza and wings and if anyone wants to come visit us and have some, we would welcome the company. :)  Not that we're bored, but we just like having people over.

Next weekend, we are going to the Geneva Homecoming and the following weekend after that we will be at a wedding near home in NY.

Until Next Time....