Canal Town Day's Celebration

Life is so fun living on Main Street. Last weekend was the town's annual Canal Town Days. (Palmyra is right on the Erie Canal.) This is the parade from our bedroom window.

This float was made and sponsored by the Senior Missionaries that are at the church historical sites here. Many people accompanied the floats walking and throwing candy, this one had young Elders handing out the Church Proclamation on the Family pamphlets. It was great! Not that I don't like candy... but we'd had lots of that.

This one's for you, Jeff.

Who is that handsome guy sitting on the curb? We came downstairs at one point to join our fellow towns people! The seating wasn't as comfortable, but the crowd was fun!

A block down is the city park and all sorts of booths and tents were set up there. We took this picture because of Phil's brother's nick name....Dar.

This guy was in the parade with about 30 others that looked just like him. They were the Fife and Drum Brigade. They were really quite good.

We were all sitting waiting for the 5 peice ensemble who came and played Dixieland Jazz in the park. It was such a festive and fun atmosphere. I loved it!

Early that morning the old cars starting rolling in and parked right outside our front door. Here are pictures of a few of my favorites... It was probably the best car show I have ever seen.

The sign said this old Cadillac has the same engine as the B29 bombers in WW II! Now that's an engine!

Great Dixieland! Made me want to dance! Oh, I think I did.

My favorite! Phil called me to the window when it drove up and later when we got a good look, it was really amazing. It's a Clerit. It even had beveled flowers engraved on the side window glass.

My next favorite. A Peirce Arrow. Wow! Ok, I'd take either of them! I'd even take the red Cadillac if I had to.

That's our front door right behind the women sitting in the chair. You'd think they'd ask before they parked their old cars right in front of our place!

This one's a lot like Phil's first truck.

Yea...I take this one too.


Since being here we have heard about upper state NY being famous for their "hots". That's a hotdog for all you foreigners. Here was our first "hot". Very good. It was also our first experience talking about the church to a stranger. I was cold and went inside the car to eat while Phil and this fine New Yorker had quite the discussion. Our badges do bring attention to us and we wear them everywhere. I was happy to watch them laugh and have a great time and when it was all over, they even shook hands and left great friends! Hurray! Good job, Phil!

I think they could be fishing buddies!

We found this farm in driving to Walmart. It was a mile off the road but well worth it. It is a very big farm that stills uses horses to plow. The produce was wonderful! Best we'd ever had accept maybe for the family (Barney produce) farm, of course.

I did not get a pumpkin last year and felt very deprived because of it. When I went to get one there had been a freeze and Walmart lost $10,000 worth of pumpkins because of it.....so....when I saw these and they were all the same price....I not only had to have one......I had to have the biggest to make up for not getting one last year. I am going to make pies out of it.
Many, many pies.

This might not look all that big....but it is monsterously heavy. I didn't even think about what we had just done until we were half way home....

It's called steep stairs.....we could hardly get this to the car let alone up our 5 million stairs..... It stayed in the car for 3 days when I finally got a great and inspired idea. We leave three doors away from the church owned historical printing shop where the Book of Mormon was first printed, called Grandin's Print Shop. Surely there would be strong young elders there that need to do some service! I went there to ask and only old fogies and female missionaries were there. When I opened the door, I asked if there were any strong, young missionaries who wanted to be of service? Just then a husky Sister Missionary came out flexing and she said she would be glad to help. She carried that pumpkin up so fast it was a blur. We think she was probably a farm girl from Idaho. But it got upstairs and looks lovely in our living room fall display!

We picked our own raspberries.

You're busted, Mr!

Reminded me of picking them at Bear Lake when I was a girl, with mother. Great time!

"The corn was as high as an elephant's eye," kept going through my head.

Farmer Guthrie. I mean, Elder Farmer Guthrie!

By the way...I found out from someone at the temple that that Guthrie road sign we saw on the way here is a famous medical facility. Thought I'd share that peice of info.