The "Hog"

If you are visiting in Wellsville on a Friday night, the chances are high that you will be eating a beer battered fish dinner at the "Hog": The Mahogany Ridge restaurant and bar - "hog" for short - in nearby Scio.

Since this was "Fiji weather" - hot and humid - we put the top down for the drive over.  Knowing what hot and humid is in Florida, I don't think we were quite at the Fiji level, but it was warm for western NY state.

Friends have been gathering here for years, and we had a table full.

Wellsville Weekend (Fiji bound)

Fiji! was the topic. FA had FIJI water at our bedside and along the mantel piece.

They will be Fiji bound on September 2nd, so this was our last visit to Wellsville for awhile.  Their Peace Corps assignment will be for 27 months.

 

Joe is ending 73 years of Felsen medicine in Wellsville with this departure.

Not sure what the "cairn" signifies, but it seems to point into a new direction. More posts from the weekend will follow, when I'm not so tired.

4th of July 2012

Didn't do too much today but mingle with the neighbors at the pool, have a hot dog for lunch (really an Italian sausage, but hot-dog-style), and walk Jube at the park.  Maybe one of these days we'll have a proper 4th of July cookout with family and friends, fireworks and the like.

This is the pool this morning, all cleaned up and ready for the crowd ...

Me and Jube at the Knob Hill park ...

And a thistle in the early morning light ...

the pool

Our community pool at 5AM this morning.  We've been spending time up there this summer, commingling with the neighbors and cooling off in the water.  I keep meaning to take a photo but I forget my camera.  This morning as Jubilee and I were doing our first walk of the day, I remembered.  I can sense that our (my) days here are seriously numbered and there are things without which this blog would be remiss.  Like an early morning photo of the pool.

critters

I forgot to add this photo of boys sitting around in the horse barn (from the Big Butler Fair). 

 

Big Butler Fair - Part 4

Then we headed over to the Midway which was a delightfully colorful and musical whirring of rides  and step-right-up games and side shows.  It was fun and I bet it is especially exciting at nighttime. Much more real and down homey than Disney.

 Would you ride on this perfectly circular roller coaster???

 How about this one??

Big Butler Fair - Part 3

There was a special barn for the Clydesdale Horses.  These are big horses and I was a little afraid of them.  I noticed a woman who seemed to have a special fondness for them who would reach her hand into the stalls to stroke them.  She told me that the large horses are especially gentle and peaceful, but you had to respect them because of their size they could step on you and hurt you without meaning to.  I wonder what it is like to have a relationship with one of these animals, if you do, in fact, enter into their gentle way of being.

Horses' tails ...

Human tail ...

Big machines ...

 ... with a super thrasher (or something) on the back.

 the Wild Bull (wonder what that is for) ...

 

A hot dog house ...

And a Wonder Ware Cookware stand.  Believe it or not, John sold Wonder Ware Cookware when he was 16 years old.  Won a trip to Bermuda because of his outstanding sales.  Unfortunately, he didn't win any Wonder Ware cookware (it is expensive!  And entire set, the man told me, sells for $6000 retail!!).  This salesman talked us into buying a pot at a special, today only, fair price.

So now we have a Wonder Ware Cookware Slow Cooker Pot!