#adirondackslakes

Watermelon Cold in the Stream - Good Thing In the grocery store today, I passed the watermelon and then fresh basil and a bunch of 4th of July and summer memories popped in my head.   Some of you know, I grew up in the Adirondacks in small (I mean under 200 people) town and a small city.   It made me decide to set aside the post I had ready and just share some things that make me think of summer.  Most of them revolve around our lake house, that we called camp.  It was 35 minutes from our house.  That's how we roll upstate. We did have a fridge in camp and all other modern features, but with all the Italian and American food in it, the watermelon needed to be cool.  So it went in between the rocks and the water for a couple days.  (no bears ever got it) In the moving water in the Adirondacks, water temperature ranges between 53 to 65 degrees.  Some can get up to 73. But when it was cut into slices, it was cold, sweet and delicious.  An event worth the wait.  It's the same level event as cutting a Thanksgiving turkey. Hot Spring