SKI RESORTS IN THE SUMMER

Tony's View

We started out this morning with a scenic view. This is Canandaigua Lake at the other end. Remember, it has the most expensive real estate for a Lake besides Lake Tahoe. I guess you can say it pays off to climb this high. The below picture was just down the road. These were all small kiddie chairs lined up for the view. Even the small kids appreciate it. I find it hard to believe they stay there very long.

 We were cruising around and all of a sudden we rode up on a Ski Resort called Bristol Mountain. It was out in the boonies but it was very well maintained. The entire parking lot was paved with curb. It looked very high class for the area. Might be a nice place to go skiing. Never thought we would run into a ski resort, but we are in the mountains.

Today involved 3 more mountain passes. I have to stay we struggled with the first two. These two pictures show that we are in the mountains. Between the mountains are different Finger Lakes. I guess the glaciers pushed the dirt in the lake area up to create the mountains in between. The Lake we passed today were Honeoye Lake, Canadice Lake, Hemlock Lake and Conesus Lake. These are smaller than the previous lakes, but were still lakes shaped as fingers. When we got to the top of the last Lake, Conesus Lake, we were in a small town called Lakeville. We stopped at a restaurant called the 3-Legged Pig. The food was good and very popular with the locals. On the wall was some great signs, like free air guitar with every meal. It even had this cool engineering flowchart. I thought it looked more like what a farmer/engineer flowchart would look like so I texted this picture to Jeff, our resident farmer/engineer, and he replied intelligently with one word, "agreed."


Interestingly, on the wall they had the story of the 3 legged pig. One day a man drove by a farm and saw a three-legged pig. The man went up to the farmer and said, "Excuse me, but why does that pig only have 3 legs?"  

"Well," said the farmer, "that pig is very special. One time when my wife was cooking something she stepped out of the kitchen and it caught on fire. No one in the house knew about it but the pig, and he saved me, my wife, and my 2 kids."  

"That's amazing!" said the man, but why does the pig only have three legs?" 

"Well, there was that time the pig saw a big storm coming and we didn't. The pig ran into the house and dragged us out to the storm cellar. If it weren't for that pig we would all be dead."  

"But still, that doesn't explain why the pig only has 3 legs." 

"And I remember the time my youngest son was stuck up a tree, but I was too far away to hear his cries for help. The pig ran to me and led me to where he was."  

"Well, that is a miracle, but how come that pig only has 3 legs?" the man said quite annoyed at this point.  

"Well," said the farmer, "with a pig that special... you have to eat 'em real slow."

When we got to the hotel, I went swimming and sat in the hot tub. Joan tried to take a nap to no avail, then realized she had ice tea for lunch and the caffeine kept her up. We decided to go on a hike to Letchworth State Park. According to USA Today, it was rank the number one state park in the USA in 2015. It is also known as the Grand Canyon of the East. Well ,we went on our hike and it was hot and the mosquitoes were bad. So instead of getting eaten up, we decided to turn around after only getting 1 1/4 miles down the trail. We could see the big gorge through the trees, and I am sure it would of been nice. We walked downtown to eat and then stopped on the way back for ice cream. We ended up walking/hiking 4 1/2 miles before we got back to hotel. Good way to work off the ice cream. Getting to bed early tonight because we are getting up early and skipping the overnight in Batavia and going straight to Lockport to get our truck. The bike ride is longer, but am running out of insulin and will be cutting it tight if we stay another day. Another lesson learned by me.

Joan 's Extra

While eating at the 3 Legged Pig, we talked to some local guys on their lunch break. We learned the answers to 2 burning questions that made us wondering for the last week or so:

1. What are the small bird boxes that sit atop fence posts along country roads?  A. They are houses for wood ducks. The wood ducks were declared endangered and they have made a comeback since the State of NY starting putting up the bird houses for the wood duck to lay its eggs.
2. Why are the wheat fields unharvested even though the wheat is drooping over ripe? A. They have gotten so much rain that the fields are too wet for the farmers to take it off. We did see a few fields being harvested in the last few days fortunately for the owners.

Now the only question that remains is, I wonder if the trivia guru, Jeff Fannon, knew that?  🦆🦆🦆