Even though NY does have coast line, for some reason the 
Wooden Boat Show was held at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut instead. So, because John loves wooden boats so much, off we went. There were LOTS of beautiful wooden boats including the one in the photo. Plus John took a class in caulking (perhaps because he took so much grief when Terry's wooden sailboat he worked on a couple of years ago immediately sank - it did eventually swell up enough to float so all was not lost. Watch the blog in August - Terry's boat and John's should both be out of the workshop and a sailing regatta is being planned.)
Wooden Boat Show was held at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut instead. So, because John loves wooden boats so much, off we went. There were LOTS of beautiful wooden boats including the one in the photo. Plus John took a class in caulking (perhaps because he took so much grief when Terry's wooden sailboat he worked on a couple of years ago immediately sank - it did eventually swell up enough to float so all was not lost. Watch the blog in August - Terry's boat and John's should both be out of the workshop and a sailing regatta is being planned.)
Turns out "everyone" is "doing" wine these days. Stopping with John's cousins John & Judy we sampled Connecticut's wares - really GOOD wine and we're all kicking ourselves now that we were too cheap to only buy a couple of bottles.
The handsome fellow to the left is our friend Jack with his pretty wife Joann. Jack's 70th birthday was over the weekend - looks GREAT doesn't he? (John & I discussed that perhaps walking 4 miles starting at 5 each morning as Jack & Joann do is the key to the fountain of youth but at 5 this morning it seemed VERY unlikely...)
Back in NY we took backroads home and passed through the little blink of Cuddebackville. There's not much there except for a school and the D&H Canal Park with a little museum (not open today). However you could see the stone base which carried the canal aqueduct across the Neversink River (LOVE these names). It (the base not the river) was designed by J.A. Roebling who was also the architect for the Brooklyn Bridge. That man did know how to work with stone! We had hoped to visit the Neversink Gorge State Unique Area (whatever that means?!) but the only way to it seemed to be by foot (a loooooong way by foot) and this was not the day for us to do that. So we settled instead for going to Monticello and discovered the absolutely BEST Jewish bakery we've been to outside NYC. (My hips are VERY grateful it is a long way from home!!!) We also stopped in Hancock where they're redoing one of the old hotels in town. In fact the whole town looks on the verge of being discovered so if you're of a mind to start a small business Hancock might bear looking into. After all if a man can make a living there catching eels from the river and smoking them (he was even written up in Gourmet magazine), then anything is possible... You heard it here first!
