After our visit in Buffalo, NY, we headed east to visit Marilyn Scott and her husband Jim.
We go waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy back, Marilyn and I. We were baby nurses at O'Connor together. In the early 70's. Not taking care of babies, actually babies ourselves (well, early 20-somethings).
Before having our own babies. And now their 'baby' has a baby. Whew.......
Marilyn and Jim moved back to New York state after the passing there of both her parents and her brother, and now live steeped in the personal history of her life (they live in the home her dad built himself!) and the early history of the USA. Marilyn visits yearly to San Jose, and keeps in touch well. This oddessey of ours gave us the opportunity to visit them. We had a lovely drive across the Adirondacks to their area. Living outside Saratoga Springs as they do, there are old places....
Beautiful gardens
Farms and ranches.........Coats on sheep? Really?
We visited the graves of her folks
and this civil war veteran
and someone's little one, unnamed
Goat farms galore
who could not love those faces!
Marilyn is such a fabulous cook, and what a wonderful pot roast dinner we had.
Here's their homestead, their 15 (oh, I'm so jealous!) acres.
And who knew, we have the same car, in the same color!
We enjoyed lunch together at the Old Bryan Inn.
Everything is so old! Especially compared to California standards.......
Saratoga Springs, with its horse racing history, has statues of horses on nearly every corner, different paint, different themes, all works of art!
And the actual springs themselves...... Quite dramatically mineral-tasting water!
After our farewells, we headed off through the farms and sweeping lawns and properties of eastern New York state, into Vermont...........
Where Mikey and Munchin got to go through their first covered bridge
Until we settled in for the night at our campground in Vermont.
Yes, those are Halloween lights you see around the window. Perfect for our little home.
Good night for tonight, from Douglassville, PA RJ
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