Happenings Around Town

   Someone tried cleaning the algae off the Schwartz Center at Cornell.  I approve of this message.

 

  

  Ting and Xiao came to have dinner and catch up.  I took the top picture on Xiao's first day at IHS in the fall after Ting graduated.  2017?  Time flies and kids grow up.

  I got out for one last paddle of the season and got Caro to join me.  She was worried about not knowing how to swim, but no rescue was necessary.

  

  Connor in Spain showing off thrift shop apparel.

    Gail and friends swam across the lake (and back for some).  Another chance to paddle for me.

   I cleaned up a pile of garbage in the gorge, and for the first time ever, a crew from the city showed up to pick it up even before I was finished.  It usually takes a couple weeks.

   I toured South Works and various government entities with the Participation in Government classes.  Jodi barely got passed security to get into the city court.  New murals at South Works added two more deer to the overpopulation on South Hill.

 

    

  A couple instances of catching sunrises that can be seen from those locations a few times a year.  Over Ithaca Falls and from McGraw Tower during a chimes concert.

  

  A new vantage point to view Ithaca Falls from a little overlook park behind a new apartment building where the Ithaca Gun factory was.

  A post I fixed on the porch a few years ago didn't hold up when the board below it rotted.  Hopefully, this one lasts longer.

 

I found something to kick my banjo playing up to the next level. 

    

  It took a while, but we finally got a frost.

  A muddy spot on the new rail trail is a little better with a trench to redirect water that didn't have anywhere to go.  It's temporary, but works for now.

Cascadilla Gorge will be closing soon for the winter.  Gail and Roxy walked me to work one morning and I had enough time to go up with them.

   It was a dry October, but we did get a sprinkle one day as evidenced by the sidewalk at school.

   And Sherry and Tom came to town.  Sherry grew up here, across the street from the house Gail and I live in.  Tom and I grew up together in Westfield.

 Don't forget it.