The air pollution levels have somewhat fallen from last night but it’s still hazy from the wildfire smoke. But then again, so many things are hazy these days as the children giggle and give each other flowers.
The air pollution seems not as bad this morning according to official government meters, ⌛ and I didn’t set my kitchen on fire this morning, 🔥 so that was good. As were the zucchuni-banana 🍌 pancakes. Let us not talk about how much bananas were at Woke Market32 in Builderland or how I paid $4.50 for a 10 cent plastic contact lens container, but I lost the one I was using and the old one is full of bacteria and other crap and made eyes 👀 so irrated yesterday. I will be glad when I can get rid of contacts for good and stop pay, pay, to the Woke contacts company. Soon enough I’ll be getting the big snip in my eyes, and then the contact container can be a lump of melting plastic and carbon dioxide.
Off to the doctor’s office this morning, 🧑⚕️to learn how much weight I’ve put on this year. I do ride back and forth to work and I don’t eat processed food, but I do like frozen fruit a bit too much and had a lot of carbs yesterday with that brown rice and onions I cooked up and tried to burn my kitchen down into he process at five am without my glasses on. 🍲 That said, the past few weeks the office has been full of candy and while I try to avoid partaking in too much of that, 😋 I do admit I’ve been sneaking in a few dinner mints 🍬 here and there and iced coffee with lots creamer and sugar is good in this hot weather. 🥤 I was cutting back on caffeine and I’m still not getting enough sleep but it’s not messing with my sleep like in the winter, 🛏️ probably because I have more fires in the wilderness to restore sleep. 😴 I do got some jock itch this morning from some ring worm I must have picked up at the Mine Kill Pool 🍆 but already the athletes foot cream I get in bulk from Wally World is helping but I do need to pick up more. I might run to Hannaford on my bike 🛒 to get that after work along with more frozen fruit and eggs. 🥚 I should also buy a scale ⚖️ both for tracking my weight and how much propane I have left at camp 🏮 but Iike to guess on such things.
The bugs were intense 🪰 when I was out walking in the Pine Bush 🌲 last night. It was like black fly season with the number of gnats flying around, some biting but certainly lots of them swarming. And it was humid and generally not a pleasant experience with the wildfire smoke. The rest of the Save the Pine Bush volunteers weren’t wrong when they bailed out on hiking with me in the Pine Bush but then I ran into Luisa from work out hiking. There were a few people on the trail, 🚶 but it was not a pleasant evening and by the time I reached overlook the sun had set into a sky of haze. Driving home was not fun with my irrated eyes. 👀 I really can’t wait until I don’t have to deal with contacts anymore even if it is expensive initially to do the big snip.
The weekend forecast seems hot and sunny. ☀️ I was all about going up to White House this weekend to eat wild blueberries 🫐 and do some hiking but it’s going to be so hot. I was just out to Schoharie last weekend but now with it being so hot and sunny, it sure would be nice to try out that swimming hole 🏊 in the Schoharie Creek by Max Shaul Campground, get more corn and zucchuni at Shauls 🫑🌶️ and then spend a bunch of time at Mine Kill. But that involves driving on Saturday, and I kind of rather would spend it floating, giggling with clouds, and just walking or riding everywhere from camp. I’ve thought about heading back Potholers and stopping at Samdills 🌽 on Friday for produce, but NY 29 is closed in Rockwood, so the alternative is NY 67 to Oppenheim, and it probably makes more sense to take NY 347 or whatever that road twisty road is from Fonda to NY 67. 🛻 But that’s kind of a long trip for just a weekend – and we don’t have coverage on . So I’m undecided.
Maybe in two weeks I’ll be on my way to the For the Love of Bacon 🥓 as I hear the Piggery is no more in Ithaca. 🐖 I started researching grass selling stores in Ithaca as I want to try something different then Northern Lights in Menands. Got to be careful what words I use here as I don’t want to have blog revenue drop because I run site where I talk about rainbows, hogs, the stuff cows eat and give us giggles 🤭 and other topics for those who are mature. Then out to the Finger Lakes through Labor Day. I haven’t actually taken off the days off, and I don’t know for sure what day I leave Albany but I might as well add some days to vacation as I can’t use any vacation days on the days around this weekend, and the following weekend is kind of pointless to plan an extended trip if I can just tack it onto vacation. God bless the Grass. I do want to get some clams 🦪 to boil up with the sweet corn 🌽 and who knows what else – mushrooms, onions and other produce in beer 🍻 up at camp. Figure do that a day when I can just hang out, bar maybe taking the tube up and walking over to Foster Pond. ⭕ I can already hear the grass puppies 🐮 ripping the grass into the night. Hopefully it won’t rain too much that last week of August and everything smells to much like wet cow.
