It's Another Hot One!!

So....I woke up this morning at about 4AM....did my usual online stuff and wandered over to the bathrooms at Ilion Marina to take my shower. Both Dottie and I rate each marina by their bathrooms, and Ilion is an exception to the norm....always clean, cool and bright looking. We gave em a 10!.

Temps today were a high of 91 degrees, but the freaking humidity is 96%......hotter than hell.

I bicycled to the local Bank of America in Ilion, then to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast.....BOA here has Saturday hours 8:30AM to Noon. Ilion is a nice small town, not much bigger than Clyde, and the only large employer is  Remington Firearms, however there are Rite-Aid Drugs, Kinney and Walgreens...McDonalds, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, etc......unlike Clyde which has nothing of the national chains.

We left Ilion at 10:00AM and we hit the first lock at 11:00....uneventful to say the least. Then to the second lock by 11:45AM and boom....damm wind, knocked the crap out of our dinghy, and now we are out a set of St. Croix davits, dink and motor. It slammed me into the wall hard enough to bend the stainless steel davits and crush the motor.It was the only breeze we had so far on the canal....LOL

By noon, no wind and we did the rest of the trip to St. Johnsville without much hoopla. Bernie is still dockmaster here and has been for the past 17 years.

So here is my bitch.....we bought diesel from the Oneida Indians for 3.859 per gallon and it is sold here for $3.809...5 cents a gallon less, and these people pay taxes. THE INDIANS DO NOT......Hmmmm.
In fact both gasoline and diesel were more expensive there than either at Ilion or St. Johnsville.

Dockage with the Oneidas was $1.50 per foot per night, and if you needed to use a launch ramp for your boat, the Oneida Indians will charge you 10 bucks, and Ilion and St. Johnsville charge $1.00 per foot per night and 2 bucks to use their ramps.....and hot water is included here and Ilion along with cable TV and WiFi, the Indians make you pay a quarter extra for a hot shower...cold showers are free, no cable, but they do have free WiFi, however, none of the employees knew the password.......LOL, kind of too convenient for comfort, don't you think?
Oneida Indian Cigarettes were $39.00 per carton, Seneca Indian Cigarettes were $49.00, which is what Dottie and I smoke, however we bought ours before leaving 5 minutes from home for $32.00 per carton. DAMM ONEIDA INDIANS ARE EXPENSIVE.

We ordered a large pizza for lunch, then took naps all afternoon.....too hot to do anything else.
Dottie made me some sausage which I cut up and put into my left over Greens Francesca from last night, essentially making East Utica Greens.

She had left over haddock Parmigiana.

Well, it's after 8:30PM, and I am done for today.......Bueno Sera, mi  amigos.