Caching, Golf & A Lunch with Frankie 6/16-18-2008

Well Monday brought just kind of a hang around day with doing a few odds and ends around the coach. Mom went to lunch with her step brother Frankie Arpino to Applebees and had a nice visit. Other than that Monday was a blah day.
Tuesday we went caching around the Liverpool and Lyncourt area. 1st cache was in the woods along Liverpool Pkwy, 2nd was near the bridge where so so many trucks have disregarded the warning signs for "LOW BRIDGE" and gotten stuck under the bridge. There is also a historic site here referring to Gannentaha Lake, which is now Onondaga Lake, and to Father Simon LeMoyne who arrived here in 1654 to visit the Indians for 10 days. He stopped to find a site for a French mission and tasted the water from a spring which the Onondagas believed to be fouled by an evil spirit. Finding it to be a salt water spring LeMoyne made some salt and carried a sample back to Quebec. Commercial salt production began in 1793 along the lakeshore. Many years later, the Erie Canal was known as "The Ditch Salt Built", salt being the major commodity transported on the canal. The last salt produced in this area was in 1926 and Syracuse was nicknamed "The Salt City". 3rd cache was located in a tree at The French Fort better known now as Ste Marie Among the Iroquois. Historically, Ste. Marie de Gannentaha was a French settlement and Jesuit mission to the Iroquois Indians occupied from 1656 to 1658. Records of it include James Geddes’ 1797 survey map of the "Old Stockade," and an elaborated version from an 1849 history book. The original mission was in use only from 1656 to 1658, but a modern replica is in operation as a museum and interpretive center. 4th cache was located at the butterfly Garden of Hope on Onondaga Lake. It is a lovely small park that has a gazebo, wishing well, flower gardens and benches that you may dedicate to a loved one that has passed away. This garden was beautiful and very moving. 5th through the 10th caches were all oocated in small parks in the Liverpool area and the 11th cache we did was at Dunkin Donuts.
Wednesday I played golf with George at Foxfire. It really didn't go to badly as I did get into some trouble and had 2 out of bounds and lost a few shots in the sand traps as they were like concrete. I shot an 89 with 3 double bogies, a triple bogey, 4 pars and a birdie so all in all I was happy as I seemed to hit the ball quite well for only the third time on a golf course in 2 years. We'll see as time goes by if I can keep the same swing pattern going into the senior tournaments we are playing in. After golf we had a hamburg and soda and came on home. We had dinner and watch some TV before I went to bed and Mom stayed up for awhile.
Well that's about it for the last 3 days we will see you soon and I actually do have pictures to post today of some of the caching we did on Tuesday. We will say until next time we love you all.


Picture List:1-7-Butterfly Garden of Hope, 8-10-Ste Marie Among the Iroquois, 11-Onondaga Salt Spring Historic Marker, 12-Old Stone House at a park in Lyncourt.