Thursday, May 29th, Kim drove here from Fishers with Travis, and we stopped at a greenhouse for some plants, and headed out to Aunt Jean’s house on Lake Keuka. We were originally going to go without any of the boys, but Aunt Jean wanted one to come for entertainment purposes. Travis was a much cooler travel companion this year, even with the extra 3 hour drive for them.
Aunt Jean had just had her knee replaced 3-4 weeks before, but her recovery seemed to be going very well. She was certainly not back to 100%, and she was sleeping more than she usually does, but we went into Hammondsport once and to Bully Hill for lunch once and she got around OK. Kim and I can knock out the planting pretty quickly now, and we managed to do almost all of it while Travis and Aunt Jean took naps one afternoon.
I think I take the same pictures every year, but it’s so pretty there, it’s hard not to:
The biggest disappointment was that the Finger Lakes region had recently flooded such that there was a boating ban on Lake Keuka until May 30th. They were draining some of the water off into Lake Seneca, but the water was still high and there was a lot of debris floating in the lake. Aunt Jean’s boat was dropped off on Saturday, but the conditions were not good for novice boaters – I couldn’t demand Kim take us out in the boat this year.
There is a super cute cottage next to Aunt Jean’s house that is only inhabited for about 6 weeks a year by a German couple:
Some other lake photos:
It was a nice trip, but I was getting pretty tired of pitching for Travis and fishing the ball out of the lake.