August already

July is gone and here we are in August. The summer seems to be passing very quickly. And unfortunately, the days are getting shorter.

Little Cousin Jasper is the latest festival to cancel. One event that did not was the Fountain Park Chautauqua which will have concluded its season on Sunday.

On Friday I noticed a crop duster northwest of Rensselaer so I tried to get some pictures. As it finished, it flew over me.

I tried to get some pictures of it dusting, but it was not close enough for a good picture.

I rode back on the highway because it was closed to all but local traffic and I wanted to see what work was being done and discovered a new store, P&P Hobbies and Collectables located in what was once the showroom of the Tonner Dodge dealership.

 I stopped in and found that it had only been open for about a week. The owner is from Crown Point. He had a coin store there but had sold his interest and wanted to start something with his grandson. Crown Point has about five coin stores located close together. Rensselaer has none.

 In addition to coins, gold, and silver, the store sells new clothing. That might make it Rensselaer's biggest clothing store. (Walmart probably has more.)

 There were boxes of comic books and variety of other things, including some baseball cards.

Over the years Rensselaer has had a variety of businesses that have dealt in these types of things but we were without one until P&P opened.

There is a new concrete slab in Milroy Park. This will be where a granite bench commemorating John Egan will be located. The bench was completed in March and has been in storage since.

 I thought for a moment I was in the high school parking lot when I noticed the painted parking spaces that Strack & Van Til have for their "to-go" customers.

It will be interesting to see how many of the adjustments that people have made for the Covid outbreak will become permanent.