-=> Quoting Michael Loo to All on 07-25-19  03:51 <=-

 ML> Google has a very straightforward way to get there. What it and
 ML> we didn't realize is that there is a detour for Melvin Hill road,
 ML> taking us many miles out of our way, another detour for NY-88,
 ML> taking us miles out of our way in the other direction, and a
 ML> third detour for NY-31, which takes us to the wrong side of the
 ML> Erie Canal, which isn't so much fun, as even with eyesight I
 ML> wouldn't have recognized the neighborhood. We were wandering
 ML> seemingly aimlessly down Detour NY-31 (I kept saying, this isn't
 ML> 31, and Bonnie kept pointing to the signs that said 31, and I 
 ML> kept saying, no, it isn't and pointing to the orange DETOUR
 ML> signs, which was about all I could see anyway. So we pulled over
 ML> in near desperation, and I looked left and there was the Whitbeck 
 ML> Road bridge, so we were not lost after all. A couple minutes and
 ML> we were home, The 50 minute trip had taken twice that.

Whew...!  How nice of the bridge to just be there when you needed it...

 ML> We had tons of food with us, much of which had no shelf life in the
 ML> car, so we loaded up the Fords' freezer whether they liked it or not.

How picnic-like... (G)

 ML> Our plan was to take them out for a local color lunch, and their
 ML> plan had been to take us out for a local color lunch, but I
 ML> overruled all that and made stuff out of what we had.

After all, there was such an abundant supply of it... 

 ML> The Fords were nonplussed but gracious, saying that they
 ML> would not turn down an opportunity to have my cooking.

Burt had called me to see if I thought you'd enjoy their Thai place in
Egypt (I think it is), and I thought probably... but I also know that
Burt does enjoy and appreciate your cooking...  

 ML> Burt has stooped a bit and is a little plumper than he was,
 ML> his height settling into girth more or less, and Shirley is
 ML> as lovely as ever, perky despite her recent travails. I
 ML> hope they last a good long time more, enough to have them
 ML> attend at least one more picnic.

We'll just have to continue to schedule picnics close enough to them.. 

ttyl         neb

... To eat is human; to digest divine.

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