OK, as usual, we're already 3 weeks at our summer spot and I still haven't put a blog up! What else is new?
Well, actually, I don't have a finished one up (yet), but I do have all the pictures sorted and made temporary entrees, so the dates on which they are posted are 'taken' and sort of in order of how they happened. 
Which sounds very complicated, never mind, I don't understand it myself either ... it's a work in progress and I'll work on it in the coming weeks .. hopefully ..

Anywho, like I said, we have arrived, in Akron, NY, and are all set up and have settled into our site at the Sleepy Hollow Lake Campground.



We scored a pretty nice site, only one neighbor at our back and fortunately they're an older couple, no kids or dogs, who are staying for 2 months so we're good.

We're under a cluster of Poplar trees, or Cottonwoods, who will give us some nice dappled shade this summer. At the moment they are pollinating and release their "cotton fluff" into the air, it seems like it's snowing at times!

 

Fortunately, we don't have allergies!

James had already set up a couple of appointments with contractors in the neighborhood and as far as Buffalo, so a few days after we arrived we spent a day driving around and checking out the various

work situations, campgrounds and surroundings to see where we would want to settle.

But we had also noticed that there seemed to be some work/building going around at the campground where we were staying, and to make a long story short, James ended up taking a job to finish up the new pool house and various other projects for the summer.
He bartered for the site and hookups, always a nice deal, plus a reasonable wage on top of that.
No commute (very nice with the current gas-prices) but a very short walk to work, which also means home for coffee and lunch breaks.
Score!

His work is variable, which he likes, some electric, some plumbing, some carpentry, some painting ...

Eeeks! (but it beats having paint in your hair)

Since they want to open the pool on the 4th of July he is working 6 days a week until than, so we have not been able to do much sight-seeing yet, but we did find a Walmart in Batavia, about 16 miles east of us, and a few golf courses that are reasonable priced (through Golf-Now) at about the same distance.



We golfed at the Batavia Country Club on Fathers Day, which was not the smartest thing to do since it was packed, but most of them only played nine, so we had a nice round after all after we made the turn.

So far this place has already been very 'lucky' for me. As you can see I found three four-leaved clovers! I wasn't even looking for them, they just 'caught my eye' ..

Now I don't now if that means I have three times the luck or will be lucky for three times, but it so happened that the next day they were shearing the Alpacas and Llama that are living in the little petting Zoo they have over here, and guess who walked away with the fleeces?

                      

 

Ha! Pretty lucky eh? Look at all that beautiful, colorful and sumptuous fluff!

    

It will be a lot of work, sorting, washing, combing or carding before I can do any spinning but I happen to like that whole process and have lots of time to do it, so .. I'm a very happy camper!
 I just wonder if I now have used up one of those clovers and have (only) two more to go?

Well, that's about it for starters. I'll have some more pics of the campground next time and some updates on the fleece process.

By the way, the weather has been quite beautiful, mostly around the low 70's, just about perfect, although we had some rain the last couple of days too. Hey, it's New York ...

We've had some nice, summery, outside meals already ..

Unfortunately next week it's going to be hot, with record temperatures in the 90's, Yikes! I thought we left that behind in Louisiana! Always something ..