That’s the smallest size bag that had at Walmart this week but it’s good price and it’s less garbage. Also got a big jar of Mike’s Hot Sauce because they didn’t have the small bottles of brand I usually like and prefer plastic as it can be tossed into the white bag and disappear with help of a little lighter fluid and used motor oil.
Got motor oil and a filter, 🛠️ I was surprised that Walmart had both. No milk at Walmart though, at least not 1% or fat-free but I’ll either get that later in the week at Stewart’s we’re it’s fresher or at Hannaford if there are other groceries I need. Coffee has gotten made expensive, ☕ I’ll have to make sure to reuse the beans as much as possible, maybe pick some chicory roots along the way. I will change the oil when I get out to folks house. They replaced their washing machine, so I can do my clothes out there and empty out my compost bucket.
But first lunch, maybe read a bit then hike up Bennett Hill. 🏞️ The yellow squash I got at Meads Farm yesterday is good with that hot sauce, onions and a little of Stevia. 🍳 I forgot how good Mike’s Hot Sauce is. Has a lot of salt in it but no calories as it’s peppers, vinegar, and salt. I did add some Stevia for sweetness. Good for a change. The oil change should be easy in the truck, as wit the lift kit I can crawl under it without jacking it up, and I’ve gotten good at doing it over the years. When I get my new truck next year, though I won’t probably keep doing it myself though.
Put fix a flat in the back tire of my bike 🚲 and aired the tires up hard. I really should replace the back tire, next time I get a flat or before at least my extended Columbus Day Weekend in the Adirondacks along the Adirondack Rail Trail. 🚲 That fix a flat really does work well and I always now carry an air pump and spare tube on me.
Slowly but surely it seems like the sun is coming out. I am going to take a shower shortly, head to Walmart for motor oil, filter and supplies and then get on with my day. Hopefully it will clear out fairly early today.
Woke up around 6:15 AM and put some water in the percolator and re-ran it through yesterday’s coffee beans. ☕ It was plenty strong and upsetting to my stomach. Now the coffee isn’t just making me anxious but also upsetting my stomach. Same thing with the super-strong coffee they have at work. I cut back some times. 🤮
It was nice at the Pine Hollow Arboretum 🪷 🎄 for a walk, though it was kind of a gray evening but at least not buggy. 🐛 Not a lot of colors this time of year, a few wildflowers 🌸 but it’s certainly not the joys of spring colors this time of year. Soon the autumn leaves will be popping up, already there was hints there and at Five Rivers when I was over there earlier. Got a fair bit of riding 🚲 in yesterday and spending time in the woods, though with the heavy rain mid-day probably wasn’t a good day to spend camping in wilderness. Read quite a bit and took a nap 🛏️ waiting for the rain to clear out and my phone to charge. 🔋
I never did get around to looking at Facebook Dating. 😍 I just fear rejection to much, but I know you just have to walk on by when people have zero interest, as thereis a lot of interesting people out there in this world. Still in a world of many successes I do find it hard to overlook that occasional lost. It wasn’t unlike last week at work with the data request. 💾 Honestly the list I would have gotten had it been accessible probably would have been too small for targeting at any rate. I should probably feel the same way about girls.
My contacts are back in, 👀 my eyes are fine but it won’t be too much longer I have to do that. Only like two weeks of wearing contacts and then it’s glasses through the big snip. Maybe I shouldn’t have gotten more contact solution on Tuesday, but I wasn’t sure how much I had left in the bottle. I got to get moving, before the store is all crowded but I feel kind of sick. 🌥️ It’s probably the weather.
I am on the fence about changing the oil 🛠️ today but I should get it done as it’s getting close to the end of the times I’ll be doing it with Red with his planned retirement at the end of winter. Always better to change the oil a bit early before it’s too gunked up, even if I don’t drive that many miles. It might cost more to buy a new truck in springtime with tarrifs and lack of sales, but I’d rather avoid driving a brand new truck through an additional salt season if at all possible. I know about undercoating and regular car washes but that de-icing chemicals is just tough. ☃️ Plus who wants to slide off the roads in a brand new truck?
I also want to put some fix-a-flat in the back tube of my bike, 🚲 and top it off before the week’s commutes back and forth to work. That rear tire is completely bald, it has holes and cracked rubber. I need to replace it but in this case I might be better going to local bike shop to replace it as shipping is map expensive on Amazon or they jack up the prices to cover shipping. 📦 Or maybe bike tires have gone through the roof due to tarrifs. Got nearly 14 months of heavy bike commuting, trail and other activities out of the current set of tires so I can’t complain much, plus my boots last much longer 👢 because I’m not walking so much on them.
Looks like I should be able to ride in all week, though Friday I may drive in if I plan to head to camp after work. 🏕️ It sucks being stuck in town all weekend even if I did enjoy my time at Five Rivers, the Pine Hollow Arboretum and doing some sleeping. Not totally sure where I will go next weekend, I have some ideas but it depends if my parents are in town or not and everything else that happens. It could once against pour on Saturday, knowing how the weather is around this place.
Honestly, I’m not ready for winter, 🌨️ nor is my apartment but maybe the new windows including the one with the busted screen will be more air-tight for winter, though it won’t help with the rotted out door 🚪 downstairs that I’ve been patching air leaks around with foam and other air stops for years. But I’ll keep the heat at 50 degrees most of the winter and just rely on the electric blanket for warmth. But you’re a unit director of an exciting, growing department building new data sources every day, you could have something nice. But the truth is I just want land with goats 🐐, a burn barrel, composting toilet and off-grid solar and not one of those plastic suburbanite houses. So many endless ads for asphalt roofs and PVC products every time I open social media!
I got reading this book about Tiny Houses 🏡 and of course because it was on Hoopla on my phone, all my feeds lately have been full of articles and videos because I must be interested in building a trailer on wheels or an Accessory Dewelling Unit. No, it’s just a book I’m reading. I totally get planning boards are a bitch – hell I bitch at enough of them when they propose yet another development in the Pine Bush 🏘️ 🏗️ – and that small houses don’t save much on a per-foot basis as a lot of costs. Or that a tiny house is not a good “investment” compared to a big plastic suburbanite house, despite the need of big plastic suburbanite house to have a dumpster and a shit ton of coal-fired electricity to keep it running and valuable.
