I am now available again to do flights. I have space for passengers tomorrow, Thursday morning, and next week. The weather forecast looks best for flying on Thursday morning, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning. Then maybe on Monday, probably good on Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Call 518-793-6342 if you want to fly tomorrow morning or next week, I’m available. Mornings meet at 6:15 AM and afternoons at 5 PM.
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Archive for the ‘Hot Air Balloon Flying Weather’ CategoryRecent Flights and Weather for the WeekMonday, August 29th, 2011In the calm before the storm, we got in a couple of good flights for some folks. I flew on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. After that I got ready for Irene which did it’s worst with excessive rain and enough wind to blow trees down on power lines and some homes in the area. I will not be flying for a few days while I wait for the flying area to dry. My landowner friends out in the flight area, wouldn’t take to kindly to someone being out in their fields with a balloon right now, with it being so wet after the major dump of rain from Irene. I will keep you informed as to when we will start flying later in the week.  On Friday evening, I flew Tammy from Wynantskill, Sharon from Greenwich, and her dad Don from Tribes Hill, who was celebrating his 80th birthday.  In the perverbial calm before the storm, I flew a group of frinds on Saturday morning. On the flight were Fred and Nancy from CA, Elias from NYC and Stephan from NJ If you are coming to Lake George this week, check to make sure your hotel wasn’t damaged in the storm. I not sure of the current status, but parts of Lake George Village were underwater due to flooding from run-off, and the main drag, Canada St, through the Village and the Beach Road were closed. We got a lot of rain in a short amount of time. Some shops and hotel/motels were flooded. It should be cleaned up fairly quickly, but it wouldn’t hurt to check ahead to be safe. Here is some info posted online by the local paper, Post Star. This article is about Lake George. Updating Recent Balloon Flights and WeatherTuesday, August 16th, 2011Time to update recent flights. Earlier in the month, the reservations slowed some, probably because of the children fighting down in DC, making people hesitant to do? And now, it appears that we are past our dry period for the season, check-out the Climate Prediction Center forecast for the balance of the month, at least for now.  Last Friday morning, we flew Sheila, Rob, Anna and Duncan.  The end of a beautiful, late Friday afternoon flight for Jim and Beth.  Saturday morning was the last of the good flying weather. I flew James and his daughter Alexis, who James was sharing some quality dad time with, before she heads-out to college at Fredonia toward the end of the month. The weather forecast for the balance of the week, as posted today, looks somewhat promising for getting some flights-in. But, if you read the forecast discussion, the weather is not quite as promising past late Thursday into the weekend. So, hopefully, the glass is half full scenario works-out. We could use some dry-time after all the rain from the last couple of days. Weekend Doings and A Look at the Weather for this WeekMonday, August 8th, 2011What can you do when there is lousy flying weather forecast for the weekend? Well, wifey and I took the opportunity to visit some fav places and visit friends. We are big believers in supporting your local businesses, especially with less than certain times, when your patronage is much appreciated. Our weekend started early Saturday morning at the Farmer’s Market in Glens Falls. We like the variety of offerings at the Market, and got some fresh veggies from a variety of vendors, excellent meat from the Lick Springs Beefalo Farm, fresh eggs and a fav of mine, Dilly Sweet Pickles from Puckers Gourmet.  The Farmer's Market on South and Exchange Streets in Glens Falls  A look at some of the vendors Late morning, we decided to head out into Washington County for lunch and stop-at some of our favorite farm country retailers along the way. For lunch, we headed-out for Salem and Steininger’s, which is our all-time favorite place for lunch. Steininger’s is a place that offers great soups, samiches, and desserts. Plus, if you are a fan of chocolate, this is the place.  Time for lunch  The Cafe was pretty full, even at our 2 PM reservation hour.  The view out the window of Main Street at a sleepy Salem, NY.  After our tasty soup starters, lunch is chicken salid on a croissant for Tani, and chicken curry for me.  We topped lunch off with one of their tasty desserts - fresh peaches, strawberriy jam/coulis, on vanilla ice cream and a buttermilk biscuit. On the way back to Queensbury, we stopped at the Battenkill Valley Creamery for some of their ice cream to take home, and their farm fresh corn for the corn relish we planned to put-up in canning jars for use through the year. And since we were going past The Gardenworks at MacClan Farms on County Route 30 after visiting the Creamery, we made a stop for wifey to check-out the plant sale going on for her gardens. I picked-up some farm fresh berries and peaches to take home with us.  The Gardenworks is housed in an old converted dairy barn.  Inside they have farm fresh goods, gift items and an art gallery that features local artists. On Sunday after we finished making our corn relish, we headed off to Vermont to meet-up with friend and fellow balloonist, Rick Pollock from Shelburne. We met-up at Middlebury, home of Middlebury College, for lunch at the Two Brothers Tavern. We took the car ferry across Lake Champlain at Fort Ti.  The queue of cars waiting for the ferry.  The car ferry docking for the trip across Lake Champlain to Shoreham VT.  The view north, up the Lake.  Wifey had to stop and check this out on the way in to Middlebury.  For wifey, it's a plant thing. In reality, it's some type of free-form sculpture using sticks and branches  Meeting-up with Rick at the Two Brothers Tavern  Good Times, enjoying some local craft brews and good food.  The dam on the Middlebury River at the Main Street bridge, center of town.  Stopped for some ice cream before heading back home.  We took the car ferry across Lake Champlain at Crown Point heading back to New York, with a view of the new bridge under construction. On a small world type of thing, the company that is building the bridge, Flatiron Construction from Firestorm CO, their lead engineer for the project is a friend of our son Grant who currently lives in Edwards CO. Well, that’s it for this posting. Time to get on to other things!! Oh, I almost forgot, the weather for the week…well, it ain’t good for ballooning until probably Thursday, possibly thru Saturday morning. Today we get a front this afternoon with scattered showers, then clearing overnight with a little high pressure for the morning, then more wide-spread rain late Tuesday into Wednesday. Weather Service is currently forecasting a large area of high pressure for the end of the week for Thursday, possibly into part of the weekend. The weekend’s weather currently is muddled due to forecasting models not agreeing on what it will be… so stay tuned for updates. Recent Hot Air Balloon Rides and Flying Weather UpdateFriday, August 5th, 2011The afternoon flying weather hasn’t been the best as of late, and unfortunately, I haven’t had much luck convincing folks on vaca to get up early to enjoy the nice, early morning flying conditions we have been getting this week, except for the one morning flight we did on Wednesday for David and Jennifer.  David arranged a Private Flight for he and Jennifer, his soon to be fiancee.  It was a beautiful morning for a balloon ride.  The proposal.  It's a YES!  All smiles, and the ring. The weather forecast looks to become unsettled for this weekend, and into next week. While there should be some opportunities to do some flying, it is difficult to determine just which days or flights will work at this time, since the National Weather Service forecast models are all producing a different forecast. 
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