Amazing hospitality, wonderful local sights in New York on a perfect sunny day

Where are we today ?

Croghan New York

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        Up nice and early as usual to find we had a good frost overnight. So fired up our Mr. Heater to warm our coach to comfortable and relax with our coffees and computing for a bit.
       Around 7 am headed for a nice refreshing walk down the road here to check out the new neighborhood. Also a quiet walk through the cemetery across the road and cows in the field next to it , gotta love this country life.

frost on the lawn

car windows too!

love the sunflowers in the garden next door

a wonderful quiet spot for a couple of nights

      Then shortly after 8 am Laurie's Mom had whipped us up a feast for breakfast.  Johnny Cake, spiked sausage,  hot applesauce and fresh maple syrup, wow  what a feast.

yummy

       Back at their place next door for a few minutes playing with Rex, Laurie can make him smile for a treat!

look at that smile!

of course Suzie got a doggie fix

      From here they took us out to see a few local sights. Laurie has lived her whole life in the area, and works at the historical society and is a local historian plus very into Genealogy as well, this lady knows her stuff, like a walking encuyclopedia. First on the agenda was the Mennonite Heritage farm. Such  a wonderful farm that is being preserved and restored. As you can see by the sign below it was in the family and farmed for over 150 years !  For the link you can check it out HERE . The house is quite huge with 8 bedrooms and many other rooms as well, over 20 Mennonite families were raised here over the years. All decent dents of John Moser.

signing in

a special tour by Keith Steria

               Over 20 of the families are memorialized here in the Zwanzigstein (Twentieth) Garden the front lawn here at the Heritage farm pictured below.

Old Milk house

     Then next was a the cemetery where some of Suzie's ancestors are buried.

      Then  drive by the Beaver Camp That Laurie has been involved with as well.

       Now to the Still Water Reservoir , where we are waiting for a bout ride down the lake to Norridgewock Lodge at Beaver River. For the link click HERE  .

        The boat ride is one hour through the reservoir where there is 46 remote campsites, accessible only by boat all on the water, very private and FREE! gotta love free.
        While we were waiting for the boat this float plane cruised up to shore circled around then took off heading across the lake, what a wonderful sight.

liftoff!

this be our boat

this guy took his kayak out of a bag!

loading the boat 

     They also have a barge to take vehicles part way, they have to back up the ramp to get in.

pushed in the barge up the lake with a motorboat

     The captain narrated or one hour boat ride giving us lots of local information.

Suzie, Her Dad, Laurie and Dave

beautiful beaches all along the lake

lotsa kayaks paddling too

got to love these isolated campsites,
like being on a desert island

       When we arrived this piper piped us off the boat, awesome .

     The a shuttled to the lodge where we will hang out and enjoy a tasty lunch.

the fish and chips, excellent 

Laurie and Dave's Burgers yummy too

     After lunch we wandered about the property for a while and enjoyed the quiet scenery, waiting for our shuttle back to the boat and ride back to Stillwater.

love this log cabin

our shuttles

and away we go

a few people were having too much fun there as well

        Now back to Croghan and Laurie's mom had another spread of food for us again! This woman is amazing! Heck we had baked beans, mixed veggies, chicken, pork, dressing, coleslaw, whipped potatoes and gravy, fresh buns well. Oh my, where to put all this food, looks so good,  well we gave it a a good try and did managed to enjoy another excellent meal,

      But then we had desert! peaches, homemade biscuits, fresh whipped cream and fresh baked ginger bread cake.  Well we did manage to sample it all, was so good.

     That was it for an amazing day we had here  enjoying some wonderful sights and the wonderful hospitality of our hosts, and amazing meals. Thank you so much for the day, and we still have the reunion tomorrow. Good thing we are only here a few days our waistlines can't handle too much more of this amazing food.
      Thanks for stopping by and hope y'all had a wonderful day as well.

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