I know it’s been a while since my last post. It’s been kinda a blah winter, providing me little incentive to write. Anyhow, if you’re wondering where our winter went this year, last November, YNN posted a detailed video forecast on what to expect for December, January and February 2011-12, and it’s been spot-on. It’s the best explanation I’ve seen on cause and affect of seasonal trends of our regional weather. Listen and weep if you’re an outdoor winter weather enthusiast.
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Archive for the ‘Stuff’ CategoryWhere or where has My Winter Gone?Saturday, January 28th, 2012Recent Doings!Wednesday, November 30th, 2011For Thanksgiving, wifey and I went to my sis’s daughter’s place, for a family gathering over in Avon CT. We returned to Queensbury the next day, to take-in an Adirondack Phantom’s hockey game Sat. night, and a Tony DeSare, “Home for the Holidays” concert at The Wood Theater in downtown GF on Sunday afternoon. It was a great 4 days of visiting, food and fun with fam.  On-the-road, leaving Queensbury early Thanksgiving morning for Avon CT.
 At Bob and Jen's place in Avon CT for an extended fam Thanksgiving gathering.
 Aunt Tani having fun with Jen's girls.
 Unca Chuck and I stopped at Davidson's for a brew, while the ladies did their best for the economic development of downtown Glens Falls retail on Sunday afternoon.
 The Tony DeSare Trio - I know it's dark, but take my word, it is a trio, that put on grove Sunday afternoon at The Wood.
 Chuck and Tani enjoying the moment after the show at The Wood.
 At the Exchange Street Plaza, the end of a great 4 days, Chris, Chuck and Tani.
Saratoga Springs Lip Dub VideoThursday, September 29th, 2011Here’s a link to the Saratoga Springs Lip Dub Video. It’s fun and worth the visit. The music is Train, whose drummer, Scott Underwood, is a Saratoga Springs native. Trip to Stumpf BalloonSaturday, June 11th, 2011On Friday, wifey and I headed over to Weston VT to hook up with good friends Rick Pollock and Paul Stumpf. Paul had built an experimental balloon for Rick. Rick came down from Shelburne to pick-up his new balloon, and the two were heading off to the Experimental Balloon Meet over in Amherst MA for the weekend. Since it was a nice day and my afternoon flight didn’t meet until 6 PM, we decided to drive over just to see it and them, and have lunch before they left for the meet, and I had to do my afternoon flight.
 Stumpf Balloons over on the Andover-Weston Rd  From a prior trip over to Paul's shop to help cut-out the panels for Rick's balloon. That's Rick on the left and Paul on the right.  Cuttin' the panels  The bottom end finished product, of Rick's 2-seater "Hang Balloon"  Then off to have lunch, the parking lot for the VT Country Store in Weston  The Bryant House is part of the Country Store complex, a good place to eat.  Decisions, decisions!!  It's lunch  The main drag of Weston  On the way back to NY, Bromley Mountain Ski area in the summertime.  The view to the southeast across from Bromley. That’s it for this post!!
Samantha’s Cafe for LunchWednesday, June 8th, 2011Today, met wifey and sister-in-law Marie for lunch at Samantha’s Cafe at Union Square. Samantha’s is a funky kinda place that’s in an old, turn-of-the-last-century industrial building, that’s been redone and turned into a mix-use, commercial space building. There are around 5 or 6 different businesses housed within the building.  The inside entrance to Samantha's  I think it has a cool, old style industrial look to the space. Notice the high celing and the above wood plank floors. I don't know the history of the building, but coulda been a sewing operation, there were lots of those around back then.
 Then I went up to the 3rd Floor to visit with Chris Archibee at Mannix Marketing for some updates to my web site. Last Ski for the SeasonWednesday, March 16th, 2011Yesterday was a beautiful day, and I took advantage of the conditions and headed over to our local hill, West Mountain for a last ski for this year. There are signs that Spring is on it’s way and Winter is waning.
 It was a beautiful morning to ride the old chair to the top of West.  Great conditions for a late winter day.  One of the tower guns and view to the East. A New YearWednesday, February 16th, 2011I figure it’s time to get active again on the blog. Our 2011 flying season will begin again in the spring when we lose winter and mud season. While it’s still up-in-the-air, it’s not looking like an early spring flying season this year. Winter still is very much here and I hope you all are able to get out and enjoy it, tho it has been a bit on the cold side this year. I’ve managed only about a 1/2 doz ski days so far this winter. I am planning on heading out tomorrow to enjoy the mild ski conditions expected.
 The snow guns ablazing on a beautiful ski day back in January at West Mt.  West still sports it's original double chair that dates to the early 60's. Wifey and I also managed to escape to Florida for a short trip to mooch off my bro Richard down in Vero Beach in early Feb. We left Albany with about -10′ and landed in Orlando with near 80′. Weather was fair by north country standards, but not so much for the wienie Florida folk, like my bro and his bride Vickie.
 Leaving ALB (Albany)  Arriving MCO (Orlando)  Pulling into Melbourne, it's 80 degrees!
 Our destination, Meg O'Malley's - We was hungry and thirsty!
 Good times!
 Day at the beach. A Merry Christmas Blast from the PastFriday, December 24th, 2010Back in 1979, Art Binley and I planned a special Christmas Spirit Hot Air Balloon Flight. The flight took over a month of planning so we would be able to fly our Santa Balloon in the Albany Airport’s zone of controlled airspace, and to be able to use the Empire State Plaza to launch our flight next to the State Christmas Tree and over the State Capitol Building. TU staff photographer extraordinaire, Skip Dickstein, took the picture that appeared in the Albany Times Union for their December 23 edition, and fed it to the UPI wire service (there was no internet yet folks so that’s how news was spread back then) and it was picked up by other newspapers around the world. We received news-clips from Australia, Europe, plus we appeared in the Washington Post’s December 24th edition of “Santas from Around the World”.
 Flight from the NYS Empire State Plaza over the State Christmas Tree and the State Capitol in 1979.  The temporary Special Airworthiness Certificate we were issued to be able to make our flight and meet FAA requirements for the flight MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Hartford Central Tether for the Elementary School KidsTuesday, September 21st, 2010This morning, Baker and I did one of the community give-backs we do annually, a free hot air balloon tether demonstration for the elementary school kiddies. Today, we were at Hartford Central School.  The kiddies all lined up watching us inflate the Peacock VIII Balloon  The kids watching Baker hold down the top of the balloon while it inflates.  Our teacher who went on the tether flight with me.  The kiddies parading by to get a look up in the balloon while we were up in the air. We had wonderful calm conditions for our tether demo.  Baker holding one of the tether lines. Ted Stevens Plane Crash near Dillingham AlaskaWednesday, August 11th, 2010I thought I might give some of my blog readers some perspective of where Ted Stevens and his party’s plane went down in Alaska. My son Grant lived in Dillingham Alaska for 4 years before moving into Anchorage, and then on to Colorado. Dillingham is even by Alaska standards, considered remote-you can only get there by plane or boat (when there is no ice). In 2005, my wife and I made the first of our 3 trips to Alaska to visit with Grant and our other son Eric, who was also in Dillingham at the time. On this trip, we visited them in Dillingham for the first part of the stay. I’m posting some pics of the area so you can get a perspective of just where this happened.  Anchorage Ted Stevens Airport and our plane to Dillingham. Notice the shorts on the airline employee-it's February folks and not a warm spell either.  The view from the plane on the way to Dillingham. Notice no superhighway, so you can't get there from here other than by air!  Dillingham airport terminal. They had shoveled a nice path for us.  The view of downtown Dillingham from our B&B, Thai Inn  Dillingham Harbor, remember folks, this is February.  Some of the fishing fleet?  Fisherman's Cafe that's sinking into the bay.  The straight road below, is Aleknagik Lake Road  Here we are at Aleknagik. Our tour boat arrived just in-time before the lake froze.  This is Grant and his doggy Saranac on Snake Lake Mountain w/Snake Lake in the background. The plane went down up that way and to the right where Aleknagik Lake is.  Grant doing some spring skiing with either Lake Aleknagik or Snake Lake in the background. And that’s it for this trip. 
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