7-10-12
Good Morning Dear Ones,
I am looking out our back window at a small lake.  We are camped about 100' from it.  The sun is shining on it and mist is floating across the surface.  It is a very beautiful, peaceful area.  It is 41 degrees out this morning.  I turned the fireplace on to take the chill off.  After the heat of Ohio I hate to admit it is cool.  They have had more rain here it is green.  As I sit here and write I am waiting for a deer or some animal to come down to the lake for an early morning drink.  It is that quiet and peaceful.  
We are in outside of Williamstown, VT.  We got in yesterday about noon.  We had to cross Lake Champlain to get to VT. from the area we were at in New York.  We had planned to drive up to the Canadian boarder until someone told us to take the ferry across.  It was kind of scary driving the truck and unit onto the ferry but they take big rigs across all the time.  It took 12 minutes to cross the lake and saved us 150 miles of driving. 
We are in the North Central part of the state, 75 miles in all directions and we can cover the state.  The mountains are covered with trees.  I can see why there is such a tourist attraction in the fall.  If all of these trees put on a color show it would be spectacular.  We will be here a week and see what Vermont has to show us.
In New York we were 10 miles north of Lake Placid.  It was a very wooded campsite but they had big rig sites and we got in with no trouble.  We had to check Bailey after each walk for ticks.Lake Placid has memories of the 1932 and 1980 Olympics but it is mostly a ski resort in the winter and a very upscale shopping and restaurant business in the summer.  The place was so crowded.  The main street winds through the town, it is narrow and parking is a premium.  It reminded me of Aspen, Breckenridge, Durango and Vail, Colorado.  It is a happening place.  Lake Placid will host the Iron man race  in 2 weeks so there were a lot of bicyclists training.  The narrow, winding roads with all the bicycles made driving slow going.  Lake Placid is called the High Peaks area.  The mountains are 4500 to 5000 feet this is high compared to the smaller ones where David is working.  We were about 65 miles from David's base camp.  We were able to pick him up on Saturday morning and he stayed Saturday night with us and took him back Sunday morning.  He is crew leader on this 8 day hitch in the wilderness.  He was responsible for planning the meals and what tools would be needed for the project they are working on.  It was so interesting to hear him talk about his work and how they accomplish the jobs without power equipment.  This 8 day hitch they are making a new trail ( 3 1/2 miles up the mountain).  They will clear the area and make the trail 6' wide and make walking steps out of the dirt and rocks.  Their work allows visitors to the State Park to hike and enjoy the beautiful scenery in remote areas.  They only take a gas powered chain saw all the rest of the tools are manual.  He is getting a hard work out without having to pay the price of a fitness center.  He is looking very "Buff".  I think that is a good word to explain his physical condition.  They have a unique way to sleep to keep the mosquitoes and deer flies off of their face;  wear a baseball cap, insert ear plugs and put mosquito netting over you.  The bill of the baseball cap keeps the netting raised from your face and the ear plugs keeps you from hearing the buzzing and it also helps if the guy next to you snores.  Pretty smart.
We talked to Pat this week and he was telling us about Landon's summer job.  There grape vines have been infested with Japanese Beetles and Pat didn't want to use any chemicals on the vines.  Soooo, Landon is in charge of picking off the bugs and dropping them in a dish of water and liquid soap. ( Dawn dish washing soap mixed with water.  When the bugs hit the water the soap disperses and the bug sinks and drowns.)  I hope he is getting paid for this important job.  Grandma thinks at least a penny a bug would be fair.  It would give him an incentive to bug hunt.
We are grounded in camp today.  When we leveled our unit yesterday we noticed the back wheel on the drivers side wobbled, Dad thought for sure it was loose lug nuts but they were tight.  A Good Sam service tech is coming today so hopefully he can fix it or tell us where to have it fixed.  The Lord takes such good care of us.  We could have had trouble out on the road.  Love to all, Mother
PS:  Joleen, I can't get the pictures to insert into the blog.  I will send you a picture of David and us.  Sorry.