My Wife Returns Home, Church, and a Sunday Drive.
My wife finally was released from rehab and came home on March 30th. She has done well and improved some over the week, but still has a long ways to go. She has to use a walker inside and a wheelchair outside. I had to widen doorways, install rails, and tile floors before she came home. Today she decided at the last minute to go to church, so we packed her up, loaded her into the car, and off we went. She had a good time and folks enjoyed seeing her back. Pastor preached on "Truly He Was", about the pagan Roman Centurion recognizing who Jesus really was while the Jewish religious leaders missed it totally.
My sister-in-law put together a dinner for us, which we enjoyed greatly!
Mid-afternoon it was so nice we went out for a Sunday drive. The new (to us) car threw some more emissions codes on the way home from church, so we cleared them and took it up the "New Highway" (Rt. 7) to Arlington, Vermont to give it a high speed run, and came home on Rt. 313. No new codes were set yet, but it did get some of the injector cleaner run through the engine. Next I may try a new set of spark plugs and new O2 sensors on the Bank 2 Catalytic Converter.
We had bought this 2009 Dodge Journey as the Jeep went down and we need a reliable car to get her to dialysis 3 times a week. The Dodge had some problems when we bought it, but I gambled I could fix them relatively cheaply. I could have fixed the Jeep, but it is 19 years old and rusting through everywhere. The Focus is still running, but in equally bad condition. That is 17 years old.
It was sunny when we left White Creek and we both took our cameras hoping to get some photos, but it soon clouded over and turned dark. Everything looked dull, so we didn't bother.
Lucy wanted to go, but didn't enjoy the ride. She panted and drooled for the whole trip! I turned on the AC, but it didn't seem to help her much. She just doesn't like riding at over 40 mph!
There was still snow on the mountaintops, but it was obviously melting off rapidly. The Battenkill was quite high. (I asked Kathy, but she didn't want to go tubing!) We crossed over at the West Arlington covered bridge and went down the south side of the Battenkill, through what once was John Munro's 4000 acre "Fowles" New York land grant before the Revolution, named after the Munro estate in Scotland. Several early White Creek settlers are mentioned as being from Fowles. Most of it ended up in Vermont when the border was finally settled. Over the mountain to the south is the Tightikillijagtikook, or "South Branch of the Battenkill" to the white man, today known as Murray Hollow Brook. Between 1772 and the end of the Revolution it formed the south boundary of Charlotte County, NY in this area. When Rensselaer County was formed, the border was pushed south to the Hoosick River and Charlotte County was renamed Washington County. To the north was the Camden Patent, settled in the 1770's by Methodist Philip Embury and other Methodists from NYC, together with Moravian missionary Abraham Bininger and family.
My sister-in-law put together a dinner for us, which we enjoyed greatly!
Mid-afternoon it was so nice we went out for a Sunday drive. The new (to us) car threw some more emissions codes on the way home from church, so we cleared them and took it up the "New Highway" (Rt. 7) to Arlington, Vermont to give it a high speed run, and came home on Rt. 313. No new codes were set yet, but it did get some of the injector cleaner run through the engine. Next I may try a new set of spark plugs and new O2 sensors on the Bank 2 Catalytic Converter.
We had bought this 2009 Dodge Journey as the Jeep went down and we need a reliable car to get her to dialysis 3 times a week. The Dodge had some problems when we bought it, but I gambled I could fix them relatively cheaply. I could have fixed the Jeep, but it is 19 years old and rusting through everywhere. The Focus is still running, but in equally bad condition. That is 17 years old.
It was sunny when we left White Creek and we both took our cameras hoping to get some photos, but it soon clouded over and turned dark. Everything looked dull, so we didn't bother.
Lucy wanted to go, but didn't enjoy the ride. She panted and drooled for the whole trip! I turned on the AC, but it didn't seem to help her much. She just doesn't like riding at over 40 mph!
There was still snow on the mountaintops, but it was obviously melting off rapidly. The Battenkill was quite high. (I asked Kathy, but she didn't want to go tubing!) We crossed over at the West Arlington covered bridge and went down the south side of the Battenkill, through what once was John Munro's 4000 acre "Fowles" New York land grant before the Revolution, named after the Munro estate in Scotland. Several early White Creek settlers are mentioned as being from Fowles. Most of it ended up in Vermont when the border was finally settled. Over the mountain to the south is the Tightikillijagtikook, or "South Branch of the Battenkill" to the white man, today known as Murray Hollow Brook. Between 1772 and the end of the Revolution it formed the south boundary of Charlotte County, NY in this area. When Rensselaer County was formed, the border was pushed south to the Hoosick River and Charlotte County was renamed Washington County. To the north was the Camden Patent, settled in the 1770's by Methodist Philip Embury and other Methodists from NYC, together with Moravian missionary Abraham Bininger and family.
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