Glorious fall colors at our achorage in Saugerties

We arrived in Saugerties, NY yesterday afternoon and settled in to what our guidebook recommended as one of the best protected anchorages on the Hudson River.  We saw on the weather report that a storm was headed our way and decided to hunker down and wait out the storm here.  The anchorage is a 15 minute walk into downtown Saugerties, which we discovered to be a charming small town with lots of neat antique stores, restaurants, book stores, and even a cinema offering $5 movies.  We took advantage of the cinema tonight and saw the new movie “Secretariat”, which was absoutely wonderful!!!  We highly recommend this inspiring, feel-good movie!  It’s the story of the greatest racing horse in history, who won the Triple Crown against all odds by an unheard of margin. 

As we were trying to figure out the best place to set our anchor in  advance of the coming storm, we met a guy who was advising us on the currents and depths of the water who was the caretaker of a property on the shore that is reported to be owned by Jim Henson’s  (the creator of the Muppets) son.  Not only was he gracious and helpful in our efforts to anchor safely to avoid the overflow of water from the reservoir upstream, he came back and offered us a jar of his freshly harvested honey from his beehives!  Already on this trip we have been so impressed and touched by the wonderful and generous people we have met along the way. 

No sooner had we arrived in our safe little anchorage, but we got a call from a woman in Fort Edward, the town where we lost our beloved cat Mojo a week ago.  (Fort Edward is about 75 miles to the north of where we are now)  We had spent several days there looking in vain for him (in the rain!), and had posted up signs all over town announcing that our cat was lost and asking people to call if they had seen him.  This woman named Kate, who herself has 10 cats, had been feeding him on her porch for several days and finally lured him into her house!  Angels are helping us!  It’s such good news that we found our cat, as his disappearance had been one of the saddest and most challenging times that we have ever experienced together.  We made arrangements with our dear friend Erin to go pick him up and bring him to us tomorrow here in Saugerties.  A big huge thanks to Erin for helping us car-less people out in retrieving our cat Mojo! 

So here we are in the rain, safe and snug in our harbor, waiting the arrival of our cat and the end of the storm.  K. put out  3 anchors to make sure the anticipated flood waters don’t wash us away.  We are stocked with food and have lots of wine aboard, thanks to my wonderful sister Stephanie who mailed us a package of “wee” wine bottles!  K. is exploring the types of streches he can do in our tiny floor of our interior cabin, we are listening to great music, and are cozy thanks to our itty bitty propane heater.  And that’s the report from the Wee Happy today.

The cutest wee lighthouse in the Catskills