Good morning! Happy First Day of Autumn ! 🍂

Can you believe it’s autumn already? I can’t but then again I’ve spent the past four days up north in the Adirondacks, and certainly the second half of the weekend up there was a bit chilly early in the mornings. Plus, you really notice how short the days are up camping — it was getting dark by around 7 PM most nights up north. They lose daylight a bit faster then back here in Albany, but even here the evenings are dark.

Rain and 67 degrees, catching the bus downtown on Delaware Ave. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 66 degrees. The skies will clear Friday around noontime — although we might have a some breaks of sun this afternoon — the best weather is being saved for the weekend.

It was a nice weekend up north, only a little bit of rain on Saturday afternoon, a good downpour for sure 💦 but most of the weekend was quite sunny, although after Saturday it was a fair bit cooler. But I got some good sunshine and time on the tube ⭕ floating down the East Canada Creek and did a fair amount of kayaking too, 🛶 and fishing. 🎣 Hike back to Goldmine Stream Falls, did some reading and lot of pondering about the world around me. And as I didn’t have cell service, 📴 I stayed off social media and really enjoyed the quiet for the weekend.

I didn’t sleep very well last night 😴 and this morning woke up kind of stuffy and sore. I think it’s just the weather and getting back to work in the routine, but I almost thought about calling in sick today, but that’s kind of difficult to do right after a vacation. Yesterday I also felt a bit off, but maybe it’s nothing or maybe it’s COVID-19. But it’s certainly not serious, and I’m vaccinated. Sometimes it’s just tough to get back to work. 👃 The truth is I kind of feel so shitty right now, but I’m dragging my butt to work. I’ll sleep more tonight I guess.

I skipped my morning walk, 🏃‍♀️ but continued working on putting away my clothes from the wash yesterday 👕 some of which were still drying this morning on various hanging locations around my apartment. I also did a bit of cleaning in the kitchen and also cleaned out the coolers. 💧 It was raining too hard to start out the morning walk, although by the time I caught the bus, things that slowed down a lot.

I do need to go shopping after work tonight I’m afraid, 🏪 as there is a lot of miscellaneous stuff I am low on, especially lunch food for at work — but generally my pantry is more bare then I would like. I don’t know if I feel like going all the way to Walmart, I might instead just do a quick drive over to Price Chopper or Shoprite after work. Gets dark early this time of year, but it’s not that far.