With some rain this morning and clearing later in the day, I decided to try my luck at a fishing pond that’s around the corner from the horse camp, so I packed up the dogs and headed out. At first I wasn’t able to pull into the small parking area because a ranger vehicle had parked at the entrance, blocking it, so I took a slow drive around the block to give him time to move, and then parked up the road and waited until he left. Eventually he moved out, and I drove down and pulled in. There was a family there that was just leaving, so after they cleared out, the dogs and I had the place to ourselves, for about two minutes, when another group of friends came in to scout out a campsite they had heard about. In between chucking the ball into the lake for Lola, and setting up my fishing line, I didn’t actually get much fishing done. Unfortunately, all my worms but one had escaped, and that one was stolen off the hook in the first cast. I tried rubber worms and several lures, and got a few strikes, but couldn’t bring anything in. Eventually I packed up, then walked down with the dogs to the campsite the chat with the group for a few minutes. One of the girls had an 18 month old yellow lab named Abby that hadn’t been very well socialized, so I thought it would help her to have my dogs meet her. I advised her to just let Abby go, knowing the dogs would sort themselves out, and they so did in just a few minutes. Abby was a bundle of energy, running around crazily for a few minutes, then flopping down under my feet. Lola played with her a bit, Billy barked at her frenzy whenever she got too close, and she took the hint and moved off. A good experience for all! I had a nice chat with the young folks before finally heading back to camp, fishless, but having had a good time. Settled down for the rest of the evening, chatting occasionally with some other neighbors who had moved in across from us. This place is filling up fast, no doubt will be packed by the end of the day and into tomorrow. At about 9:30 I decided to go up the fire tower to see what kind of fireworks were going on, and met the camping group, (sorry, they were glamping, i.e. Glamour camping!) who had already climbed up. We chatted some more and watched a few fireworks, though unfortunately, Watkins Glen’s was just over the hill so we didn’t see too much of it, though it was the only one really going tonight. The big event will be tomorrow for most of the towns around. Made plans to climb the tower again tomorrow, this time I intend to get Hubby to climb up with me. Good for his cardio!
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