Saturday, August 29, 2009

Saturday, Aug 29: Pittsford, NY

We've discovered Pittsford is quite an amazing little place! Turns out it's a very upscale little burg outside of Rochester. Definitely on the yuppie side as is evidenced by the types of shops right on the canal (Berkenstock, leather goods store, Simply Crepes - great for breakfast - and a very nice resaurant overlooking the canal). The old flour mill is now redone into either apartments or office space - it was hard to tell which. Very similar to Quaker Square in Akron with it's round rooms. It was raining this morning and as we had decided to stay another day anyway before moving on today was declared a work day! One of the last somewhat messy jobs we had to do before leaving the boat for the winter was to change the antifreeze in the engine (it should be done every 3 years as the antifreeze becomes caustic over time) as well as changing all of the hoses on the engine. Having read nightmare tales of burst engine hoses in various posts and knowing the hoses were most likely over 10 years old prompted this to be #1 on the job list. So once again the job is done having taken way more time that we thought! The biggest challenge was to catch the old antifreeze so it didn't end up in the canal. The rain moved out and it ended up being a really nice day with temperatures in the low 70's. Very pleasant!
The really best news is that we put the rabbit ears on top of the flybridge canvas and we get EVERY major channel!!! That means I get to watch the football game tonight - I am very happy. Hopefully we'll be able to get one of the Browns games before preseason is over!

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