Day: July 2, 2025

Well only if you take off Thursday to get bacon before heading up to the Potholers, though Friday is Independence Day when you shoot heavy metals off into the skies to celebrate freedom and piss off the liberals.

I also hear that it’s No Plastic July. 🔥 Honestly, I can’t think of the last time I threw away a piece of plastic, it’s more the stuff you can’t burn that ends up getting recycled or going to landfill. That said, I don’t go out of my way to use plastic anymore like plastic forks and Styrofoam plates, some of that stuff stinks when you burn, and it’s a waste of money. Plus since getting into healthier eating, less and less of food I eat is packaged. More and more, the stuff I don’t eat gets dumped in my parents compost pile. If I only had land, chickens and hogs. 🐽 🐐 🐔 Honestly, I’m more concerned about the non-burnable supposedly durable goods that are such crap and require constant repair and discarding then some plastic that shrivels up and disappears in the flames. ♻️ You know I love fire, and I hate thinking about all that garbage in the growing mounds outside my office window. Honestly I’m not convinced cardboard is any better, especially when it’s all going to the landfill. 🗑️

July begets August and the end of summer. 🏖️ In literally 61 days, the Labor Day Weekend will be done and we will be into the meat of September. 🍖 I got really sit down and plan out which week I want to take off for summer vacation, probably the last week of July but I have to be careful in case that week turns out to be crap, as I don’t want to have off too late in August and have swimming pools and alike shut down for the year. 🏕️ Just the Finger Lakes this year. Nothing too fancy. Maybe before then a weekend trip out to Schoharie or possibly the Green Mountains. Come September I think I want to do the St. Regis Canoe Area. 🛶

But first I want to get into the office early, as I see I already have work piling up in my email box plus I am pretty sure I’m taking tomorrow off to head to the Adirondacks after getting bacon. I should actually look and see what other products Mariaville Farm has at For the Love of Bacon, but let’s be honest, bacon is so good. Never have bacon with eggs, as it’s a bit too much saturated fat for my tastes, but I do often have it with especially zucchuni fried in hog fat to where it is crisp and delicious. Maybe combine that with some wake and bake, and that’s fun time.

I need to get to the store and get propane and a few other supplies tonight. For example, more olive oil as not all things up at camp should be about hardening arteries. And some veggies. Won’t be long before farm stands have things like summer squash and zucchini but for now it’s what I can get at Walmart like spinach. I am not empty on propane but I don’t want to run out or have to stop ont he way up tomorrow. The idea is I will leave at like 6:30 AM tomorrow morning, get bacon around 7 AM then head north before 9 AM to hopefully get either House Pond Campsite or Number 5 on the hill not far from the Potholers. Thunderstorms expected tomorrow, but hopefully I’ll have camp set up before things start rumbling.