Day: July 13, 2025

Am I really that surprised? No not really. I spent most of the day home, laying the by fan, reading Mark Kulinsky’s Milk! about everybody’s favorite moo drink and history throughout time. Every time I wanted to go out, I’d look out west and the skies would be dark and radar would have a giant blob of yellow and red on it.

For a while I was thinking I could go for a bike ride 🚲 but it was so ungodly hot – especially the few times the sun came out. No nature bus to Thacher Park this week so that wasn’t an option. I had thought about driving down to Henry Hudson Park and reading in my hammock next to the river of the same name, and indeed with the breeze at times that would have been nice, 😀 but downpours seemed to always be five minutes away. Truth is we didn’t get a lot of rain but when we did, we certainly did for a few minutes at time. Southern Schoharie got even more rain. I kind of wanted to see the Blenheim Power Plant Car Show 🚘 this morning and I heard Shauls now has sweet corn 🌽 but oh well. Maybe next weekend for the sweet corn, though what I really want is summer squash and zucchuni more then corn.

It was just a day of heat and milky dreams. 😰 🐄 I spent a lot of hours learning how Ancient Greeks and Middle Ages liked their milky beverages and cheese 🧀 and kept dosing off in the heat, occasionally flipping through and trolling Facebook advertisers and watching dumb videos of farmers doing farmer shit 🚜 and rednecks burning garbage. 🛢️🔥 It would have been fun to have a fire last night up in the woods but it would have probably been a smokey wet fire with all the rain ☔ they had last night. I’m hoping vacation has much nicer weather.

73 more days of wearing contacts. 👀 Remember it’s my decision to delay LASIK but  I have contacts to use up, I want to be able to swim in the summer, and anticipation is better then doing. But it sure will be nice not to have to deal with glasses and contacts after all these years. Countdowns are kind of fun. That said, the feeling of welders blindness 👁️ that following week and no bike riding 🚳 doesn’t seem great but I’ll get through it.

Showering and then off to Walmart. 🚿 🛒 I wanted to do this last night but I didn’t. I want to try to get there before the crowds, and then come home, read 📖 or I don’t know maybe go down to the park for a while before going out to see the folks. 🏞️ Need to get some clothes put in the crawl space and taken out before it gets too hot 👿 and do some leaning today. Big thing I need at Walmart is floss but also just the regular groceries as I’ve pretty much eaten everything left in my pantry. 🍏

I’m hoping this week will be more sane, 🤪 and maybe next weekend I can get out to Schoharie if it’s nice. 🌽 I’d love to get the farm stands, maybe do some riding along NY 30 🚲, float on the Schoharie Creek by Towpath Mountain in those swimming holes ⭕ and maybe pratice up on swimming 🏊 before summer vacation a week from Friday. Do one final check of my camping gear 🏕️ you know before summer vacation.