Greetings from upstate New York this time!

Now we're on the east coast for 5+ weeks, so scenery and people have changed!

It's been a busy first week after flying into Newark - Judy stayed in NY for a "Wisdom Unlimited course" weekend with Landmark Education, and Brian took the train up to Utica on Friday (Judy followed Sunday night).  Staying at Judy's mothers and a whirlwind of seeing people that we miss and love to spend time with -- Jack Reale, John O'Hara, our children, some of them anyway, and yesterday, a funeral for Jack Hunter where we saw Jackie and Peter Michel, Kim Landon, Pat O'Connor and Chuck Tomaselli.  Then it was off to Roy and Jan Cooley's camp on Piseco Lake, a beautiful house they built recently with a stone fireplace complete with wood-fired pizza oven!

We went for a swim and stayed for dinner!  The pizza was excellent - why don't we have one of those -  we'll be re-inspired to make pizza at home in any case.

We've also been working on the boat getting it ready to go in the water, which is set for Monday.  Washed it, painted the bottom on Thursday and Wednesday scouted out spots at Henderson Harbor.  Monday and Tuesday we'll take it across the lake and through the canal to Oswego, then find a way home for the 4th of July (home meaning Judy's mothers!) and then across Lake Ontario on Thursday or Friday.  The plan will be to leave it at HH now, and not bring it back to Oneida Lake.  That will make it easier to sail in the summers from now on, as it will cut out the canal trip, which is 11 hours each way.

Today it's down to Colin's to see about helping him with a home improvement project, possibly sailing with Al on his boat (our old boat Njord that we sold to Al and his friends), and then dinner back at Judy's mother's with her brother Rob, his wife Patty, and their daughter Caitlin.  Judy's sister Carole is arriving Tuesday night, so the house if filling up!   We'll post pictures along the canal when we leave this week!