Staycation

Leo is on vacation this week. Since we didn't travel anywhere, we have been referring to this week as our staycation. Not that we are staying home all. Yesterday we went to Cooperstown, NY to go to the Baseball Hall of Fame. We were a little disappointed in the layout of things. It kind of jumped around and I would have like to see a little more modern history of things. They did have some cool things in the Babe Ruth room. It was also interesting to see the old gloves, and they had some contracts from the beginning of the century on display. They have sure gone up in price. We also got mixed in a crowd from the Boston area that were there playing baseball. There was a youth tournament of some sort going on. Well, it turns out the one lady was friends with Mike Timlin and actually took a picture of his picture that was hanging on the wall and sent it to his cell phone. We also walked around the downtown shop area. We didn't find anything we wanted to buy. The drive there and back was real nice. We were mostly traveling on back roads in the mountains. The only navigational problem was getting around deer that were playing in the road. Today we decided to go out to lunch. We ate at the Boat House Restaurant. It was very good. I got a pound of steamers and a pulled pork sandwich that also came with fries. Leo got the ranch buffalo chicken sandwich. We also both got homemade lemonade. The whole lunch was fantastic. We then went down to the lake since we were right in that area. We watched some people pit their boats in which was probably as exciting as Harry watching the big trucks today. We came home and then watched the birds at our bird feeders including some hummingbirds. We put up the feeders the other day. We'll see how long it lasts before the bear discovers that they are there. It seems that it has been avoiding our yard, so we figured that we would try to put out the feeders. There were also some deer eating out there also. Tomorrow we are going to try the Alpine Restaurant for lunch and probably go to the glass museum and wildlife sanctuary. We want to get memberships, so we can use the trails. It is nice to live in an area where there is much to do.