August 12, 2015 evening

Mostly cloudy and 68 degrees. Not particularly good weather for watching the Perseid Meteor showers. Yesterday on my evening walk I did see a shooting star which resembled a piece of burning magnesium like a firework falling from the sky. The fair is going on at the Altamont Fairgrounds and the spotlights and rides always kick a lot of bright spotlight beams into the sky.

Tonight was the Save the Pine Bush Dinner. It was well attended, especially for a mid-summer dinner when many people were on vacation, attending the NY State Food Festival, or at the County Fair. Dan Egan and Dan Platt attended while Dan McCoy and some Republican candidate I have never heard of was a no show. Busy evening at the dinner with a lot of our usual volunteers out of town for the evening. But we pulled it off .

Tommorow it’s off to work then back home to pack the camping gear for the weekend. Going to be a hot one but are looking at camping at White House near Wells, swimming at the Wells Beach, and paddling and fishing the main branch of the Sacandaga River above Auger Falls. Supposedly very nice flat water up there but it’s never really explored much up there.