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Anna gets ready to trapeze over a huge pile of limbs from an old Red Delicious apple tree in the backyard of Baba and Grandad’s while Erin climbs what is left of the old tree after Eric Poston and Mike Kowal started taking it down on Saturday, August 26. A chain saw will take care of what is left standing and a chipper will grind up the limbs that were removed. The girls had to have one last fling Sunday. They will miss the many hours spent swinging on a swing that hung from the old tree. This tree and a Macintosh apple tree, still standing, were planted in 1982 with money from a gift to Baba and Grandad on their 25th wedding anniversary from Mary and Pio Chini, Baba’s sister and brother-in-law who are both deceased.
Anna and Erin walk acrosss a bridge on the towpath at Peninsula near Lock 29. The bridge crosses over the Cuyahoga River and is near the acqueduct where the canal crossed the river. The girls, Baba and Grandad were there on Sunday, August 20, 2006.
A Cuyahoga Valley National Park ranger shows Anna and Erin a beaver pelt during their train ride on Sunday, August 13, on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. The girls with Baba and Grandad left the Northside Station in Akron at 1:15 p.m. for a trip to Peninsula and back which took an hour and 45 minutes. The railroad is one of the oldest, longest and most scenic tourist excursion railways in the country. It follows along the towpath trail of the Ohio Canal. The tracks reach 51 miles south form Independence passing through the 33,000 acre national park to Akron and Canton. The tracks were recorded in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Although we go swimming a number of places--mostly the Falls Natatorium--we always spend one afternoon each Summer at Waterworks Park in Munroe Falls to go down the slides, swim and take a leisurely trip on the Lazy River. This year it was on Tuesday, August 8. Erin is in the front of the double tube and Anna in the back. Anna took swimming lessons at the Natatorium in July. Both girls are becoming better swimmers each time we go.
