Off to the doctor’s office this morning to have my yearly physical, and find out how many pounds I put on during vacation eating all that ice cream and smoking all that pot. Hopefully my memory has improved somewhat, but it was a fun week, even if it went by much too quickly.

I ended up leaving Ithaca around 5 PM last night, 🌇 and it was a beautiful ride home. Still seeing a lot of beauty and richness in color that I didn’t see before. Somehow vacation just opened my eyes to a lot I didn’t see before. You know it really has me being a lot more open to New York now that cannabis is legal. I don’t hate upon it quite so much. Plus those burn barrels down in Penna kind of stink, even if burning shit in the country 🐮 is still fun and it keeps it out of landfill. 🔥

Got home a little after 8 PM. 🏡 Or at least the place I get my mail, as I’ve never considered Delmar much less the Albany-area to be my home, but merely a place to stay over temporarily while I make some money and figure out the next step. The traffic on the Thruway was obnoxious, I really should have gotten off at US 20 but I was tired 😴 and just wanted to get unpacked. Got most of my gear put away, 💼 fried up an onion 🧅 with some cornmeal and went to bed. 🛏 In many ways, it certainly is convinent to turn on a light switch and be flooded with light 💡 and a sink 🚰 and get lots of fresh cold water, rather then running low on the water bottle. In many ways, things are better in the wilderness, 🦉 but also urban life is much more convinent. It’s something I’ll have to consider further if I build that off-grid cabin some day.

Doctor’s appointment at 9 AM this morning 🧑‍⚕️,  I get to find out how many pounds I put on with all that ice cream and munchies 🍅 from the cannabis I smoked. 🚬 That said, most of those munchies were on brightly colored sweet fruit like strawberries 🍓 and tomatoes. 🍅, the later which were so fresh and good out in the Finger Lakes. Plus while there was certainly lazy days on the tube, ⭕ there also was a lot of time riding the bike, 🚲 probably well over 200 miles though I didn’t have the speedometer running on my bike all of the time due to the rain. ☔ I tell you that week did go by much too quickly though.

So far the weekend forecast doesn’t look for getting out of town, 🌧️ but it is a Nature Bus 🚍 weekend if I want to go Thacher Park. Maybe Big Red and my budget need a rest for a weekend. Plus who knows how busy I’ll be work, still catching up after 10 days away from it all. 🖥 I want to get back out to Schoharie County at least one more time before Labor Day and one more time up to Piseco-Powley during the month of August. Labor Day Weekend still I plan to do Speculator, remote working that day. Maybe it’s a good weekend to spend at home reading, 📖 though Sunday looks decent. Piseco-Powley is great because once your set up there, you can ride your mountain bike 🚲 everywhere, so if you want to smoke, especially that White Wedding with the 23.75% THC, you can do it without having to worry about driving anywhere. 🚘 And just be really relaxed all day long. ☺