Well, for only the second time this summer I wore long pants for the whole day. The furnace got its first work out and performed flawlessly. We woke up to an inside temperature of 48F (9C), but with the furnace on the temperature climbed to 65F (18C) by the time we had finished breakfast.
Outside the temperature was a little lower, with clear blue skies.
We decided to go to a local State Park that had some hiking trails. The first park we wanted to try was closed following extensive damage from the tornado. The next park was Wells State Park, about 20 miles east of here. On the way there we passed through a small town called Brimfield, which must have had close to 200 marquees in various states of construction. In fact the number of marquees far outweighed the number of houses in the town. It turns out that there was a massive antiues fair in town, unfortunately ( 🙂 ) it finished last week-end!
We found the Park and spent a while following a trail through the forest, yesterdays rain had left it quite wet in places, but not impassable.
On the way back we followed a side road off to Brimfield Dam, this is a small dam built at the end of a holding pool of 9,400,000,000 gallons (funny how I could remember the capacity, but had to ask Lyn the name of the Dam!!) which, I believe, is used to contol the level of a reservoir further downstream. The whole area was very picturesque, but the site of a couple of groups of red trees was a little disturbing…. winter is coming!
Brimfield Dam
I guess the cooler weather has scared some of the locals off, the number of people moving in for the weekend is way down compared to last week.