A Fun Week

We took a drive to the north for the first time. We went into Honesdale, which is the county seat. It's a cute little town with their tourist information housed in what may have been a train station at one time. We picked up some brochures and then headed to a Farmer Market listed in one of them. We've come to learn that a farmers market can be a farmer with a stand on the front of his property selling his own produce. Such was the case with this place, but they didn't have anything to sell just yet. That's been the story of our summer.

From there we continued back towards the west and Carbondale. We had seen this wind farm from a distance before, but it was pretty cool to actually get this close to the windmills. It was impressive to see how huge they are.


We stopped in Carbondale for lunch at a corner cafe which was really quite good. Then we headed home before the afternoon rains kicked in again.

The next day was pretty nice again - or at least it wasn't supposed to rain till around 2pm. So we made a picnic lunch and took Heidi with us to Promised Land State Park for some actual fishing. Here's me with a real fishing pole in my hands.


It was cool, but Heidi preferred the shade. She enjoyed being with us, though.


Julian caught a fish, but I didn't even have a nibble. We really enjoyed being out there anyway. And we were back home before the rains did come again.

Julian discovered this mushroom growing on a lot not far from ours. It was so pretty he had to take a picture before it got mowed down. He thinks it was 8-10 inches across and was shiny, and not because of the rains either.


I worked in the store all day on Saturday, July 4th. We were quite busy, too. The weather was decent so lots of folks came out to play. We had a couple of family reunions going on, which increased the number of people on the property. I didn't find time to be bored at all during the whole day.

While I was working, Julian and Heidi were enjoying our neighbors, Alexis (5) and Robbie (3). These two are real cuties who come up most weekends from the Scranton area. They are avid frog-catchers and love the outdoors.


We had our own fireworks here at the park. It was a really nice show, too. The guy who did it was an old family friend of the owners who really knew what he was doing. We took our chairs and found a nice spot on the lawn with everyone else. Other people around the lake were shooting off their own fireworks, too, so it was a great celebration. Happy Birthday, America!