Boy is July going out well. It's about a month late but we're getting July weather as we move into August. Tomorrow Stan & I are going to Parc Safari in Hemingford, Quebec, about 30 miles from here. He's never been there & I haven't been since the mid-'80s so it should be interesting. Parc Safari is an amusement park on the order of Busch Gardens, of course nowhere near as big, but a zoo and water park and rides, etc. Stan didn't even balk at the $35 Can. ticket price! It should be fun.
Last week we went to Malone, NY and then to lovely Bombay, NY to fabric shop and to take Stan's antique clock in for repair. It's really criminal that I have to travel 50 miles to go to a fabric store. JoAnn Fabrics closed here last summer--the company is only keeping superstore open, I think was the reason given. That leaves me with WalMart and don't even get me started on that. But the trip is a lovely one, up past Chazy Lake, through Chateauguay, NY, almost to Canada. The clock man is very close to the casino run by the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, and since we have to go back to pick up the clock I'm going to see about Stan driving the extra mile, literally, to the casino. We went once before and were both underwhelmed since neither of us is really a gambler. But I'd do it again just to do it!
Mr. Emery, the clock repairman, reminded me of a ditzy version of Stan, only he works on clocks instead of antique fishing rods. We actually picked out a "new" clock, an antique for the fireplace mantel, only to get home and discover that because of the way the infinitely UNwise builder of this house did the wall above the mantel, it's only 3" deep. No clock there. So we called and said we couldn't buy that clock but we're going to look at hanging clocks instead.
And as for the fabric shopping, it was definitely successful. One result is a new outfit for Kyrin that's the picture at the top of this post.
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