By nine o’clock I want to be heading to Dresden to ride to Penn Yan via the Keuka Outlet so I can get candy store and touch both Seneca and Kueka Lakes with the front wheel of my bike.

That’s the major plan of the day. 🚲 It’s not the longest ride, each way might take an hour or so on the bike based on my experience last year. Plan to leave camp around 9 am, swing by Tops mostly to see the have clams 🦪 and I’ll stop and get sweet corn 🌽 and other produce on the way up to Dresden. After the ride, I’ll probably head back to the Glen and float for a while on Seneca Lake, ride some of Rock Cabin Road and explore Catharine Creek Marsh 🐸 and maybe get ice cream at Glen Dairy Bar. 🍦 I guess Spotted Duck 🦆 is better, it’s locally produced homemade ice cream but I think I like more of the traditional soft ice cream. Didn’t have a fire 🔥 last night, want to have one tonight both to cook up clams and roast sweet corn if possible but also take care of the overflowing garbage bucket with all the corn cobs and crap. Things I would mostly otherwise compost if I wasn’t in the wilderness. 🗑Plastic on the other hand, makes a good fuel for the fire. ♻ Don’t tell a liberal about life in BFE especially in Penna. 😂 On Tuesday night, a racoon got into the garbage and spread it all over, 🦝 probably due to the sardines cans.

Yesterday was a lazy day of reading 📖 and relaxing, thinking 💭 a lot about the world around me as I enjoyed some White Wedding 💒 far more than the Critical Mass pot. Rain showers mostly ended by mid morning. ☔ Though we had some rain mid afternoon while I was Potomac Ponds and ended up heading back to camp and napping. 💤Network tech from work called with more questions about the robo call system 📞and I shouldn’t have taken that call after spending that time with Puff the Magic Dragon 🐲. I realized it was a mistake once I hit connect as I couldn’t remember anything about work, but after I explained I was on vacation 🏖 he said he would follow up next week when I was back in the suburban office. 🏢

Floating on tube was a lot of fun on Foster Pond ⭕ watching the clouds in the sky. 🌤️ Fish 🐠 kept nibbling on me and yanking on my swim trunks, or was it the snapping turtle 🐢 or the muskrat which burrow along the shore. 🚵 Around seven o’clock I rode the No-Nan-Tanko, muddy from the rain but still fun.  🌇 Cows weren’t as interested in me last night but maybe because I had only been in one pasture so I didn’t pick up the smell from the other pasture. 🐮 Bike does smell like cow manure this morning. 💩 Sat by Ballard Pond for a while watching the stars ✨ appear in the sky as it darkened, listening to the bullfrogs, 🐸 crickets 🦗 cattle mooing. 🐄

It’s August. ☺ I have a lot planned for today before vacation is done, so best to get on it as today won’t be as lazy as yesterday and thunderstorms are bound to arrive by afternoon when it gets really hot out. I got my ten books 📚 out of Hoopla but after ordering them I wish I had got another book out about Cannabis and rebuilding old houses but I ten other books out to read first on homesteading, growing pot, computer programming, Appalachia and wilderness adventures with Edward Abby. And people accuse me of being a straight with my Don’t Tread on Me Flag. 🚩 Happy August!