Ken and I took off and walked the cat walk across the canal to "Lock Island"..It was very breezy - ck's weather radio and we had gusts 36-40 mph... There is some history here....
Center of Phoenix Fire Sept. 23, 1916
The blaze started by sparks from Sinclair Chair Factory on the Industrial "island" between Oswego River and Oswego Canal...It soon spread to the Duffy Silk Mill where the pumps for the water system wer located. Strong winds swept embers across the canal to the downtown area....destroying 80 buildings....from the River to Main St. and from Lock St. to Culver St....2/3 of the valuation
Downtown rebuilt 1918..
One of the few remaining Lift Bridges in the US....
After our walk, we headed back to the boat where we played cards, etc. while waiting to go to the River Rock for hamburgers and beer $5 night....when we heard this woman's voice outside the boat say "got any beer on board"...looked out and our good friends from Verona and also Cape Vincent (they have their boat there as well) stopped by to go have hamburgers/beer and watch the yankee game with us...they felt so bad we were stranded and just wanted to cheer us up. It worked....we had a great evening and lots of laughs. They were celebrating their 31st anniversary and we just celebrated our 34th a week ago, so we took each other out to dinner...just plain good ole fun....
Now today Oct. 8th- Ken left around 8:30 a.m. to go get Steve's trailer and drive to Cape Vincent and get the cradle for our boat, so when we get to the other side of Oneida Lake, we can pull the boat and store it for the winter....we will start back up as soon as we can in the Spring 2011....we were going to store the boat in Maryland, but just can't get there from here this year!
I am here at the coffee cafe and visiting with Tammy the owner and some patrons...my new hangout when I'm not being "Party Girl at the River Rock" haha
Ken should be back around 6 PM....or 7 PM..just hope all goes well for him.....
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