Good morning! Monday’s come back around again.
πΉπ»πΌOnly 13 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!πΉπ»πΌ
Cloudy and 39 degrees in Delmar, NY. β There is a northwest breeze at 6 mph. π. The snow is mostly gone. β οΈTemperatures will drop below freezing around 4 am. βοΈ
No rain yet but its coming. β I can pretty much assure you of that fact. But for now it’s a pretty mild morning for the morning walk before work.
So damp this morning that my muzzles are still damp from washing last night. π· Hopefully they’ll dry a bit more later on after I iron them. Usually washing them on Sunday and drying them overnight isn’t a problem in the winter months with low humidity.
After going out to see my parents on Sunday, I finally got to the grocery store πand washed my truck π». Lady in the big car wash with a little car was embarrassed π³ when she saw me in my big jacked up truck and let me get in there right away and use the remaining time. I only did the four 4β£ minute wash after that which was good because it started to rain on my way home π‘ and there was no rain earlier to fully clean the salt off the road. Well, I tried winter sucks.
I tried to get enough groceries for two weeks so I can avoid driving to the store and using more fuel β½. I could always take the Bus Plus π to the Central Ave Hannaford to get groceries if there is a few things that I run out. I rarely go shopping though midweek. I thought about getting gas last night because I think it will only get more expensive in the near future but at this point I’m only driving like 30 miles a week mostly for one trip to the store and car wash a week.
I plan on using a lot more fuel β½ come summer but I figure save while I still can. With inflation I may have to rethink part of my budget although I’m hoping for a cost of living adjustment which will help a bit. I doubt I’ll be increasing my savings rate any time soon with so much higher fuel prices for my big jacked up truck. π»
I decided to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches π₯ͺ this week for a change and to try to cut expenses wherever possible. I am kind of tired of the hot lunch. It’s been years of chicken paddies, seasoned chicken and ravioli. π I just wanted something different and cut costs wherever possible in my budget. Walmart had jelly in plastic which I prefer as it can either be saved for recycling β» or burnt. π₯« Often fire π₯ beats scrubbing out nasty jars for recycling which is kind of a joke. π
I fixed the broken code on my blog π which broke when they upgraded the server to PHP 8.1 which broke part of the weather templates system which previously didn’t test for invalid data being coerced into null. π₯ Also debugged