I mean I voted back in September but it was good to take a visit back to Plattsburgh State and visit some of the old sites around P-SUC including Point Au Roche, Beekmantown, Peru, and Lake Champlain. And Rugar Woods. I still can’t believe that the Green Fee that I worked in college became a thing, and the College Student President – Mike Cashman is now an Assemblyman. Good for him, I had a lot of fun seeing the old haunts of my college years and knocking on some doors for him.
It was good, I went for another morning beach ride from Cumberland Bay State Park, riding downtown out to Rotary Park at the Wilcox Ferry Launch. Cloudy to start out yesterday, but it got clearer as the sun rose though soon I was back out canvassing. But first I took some time to ride along the shoreline of the lake, which was very low because of the dry weather of recent, revealing well packed sand which was great for riding on. Rode down along the suspension bridge, took some more photos and caught some of the last glimmers of autumn. Yesterday, I spent the balance of day canvassing in the Village of Peru and then Lapham Mills, getting out the vote, then driving down through the Adirondack Northway in stillness of the moonlight of the full moon over the Adirondacks. Peru had the wonderful smell of apples though Lapham Mills was more tangy from Remillards Holsteins spreading shit. Their mountains of silage along the Adirondacks is always impressive. It’s November, the time when dairymen count the loads of shit spread before the frozen ground! Depending on the agricultural use, based on book I just read – Managing Manure – there is a time period often running 100 days between spreading and crop harvest. Depends on what your growing, and how much and when you need the spike of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous. Made me wish I had taken today off to and could have done an overnight in the Adirondacks like I don’t know, maybe outside of Newcomb or Minerva on Boreas River. But alas it’s back to work today. Maybe next weekend? Red seems to be running good.
Already missing the scenery of the Adironacks and Plattsburgh area. It was good to get away though even if just for a weekend to some place I haven’t been in a years. The last time I was up through Plattsburgh was November 2015, when I did that road trip up to Brasher Falls State Forest. Some great ag country, then it opens up into the mountains in almost al directions. I just wish there were more options to camp in the wilderness nearby in developed roadside campsites, and then I could head back down into the valley to explore. In college I used to camp at Terry Mountain State Forest, but that was either back country or parking just at a random spot off the road.
This morning I was up at 4:30 AM but I was also asleep around 9 PM last night, so that’s reasonable. I’m not fully adjusted to the time change, but I actually like the early hour as it gives me time to cook and think. Some of my clearest thinking and best time to read is in the stillness of the morning. It’s cold and dark when I get home most nights, especially with the time change and winter getting underway, so I figure it’s best to retire to bed early and maximize the time in the morning. Plus it’s more of an excuse to drink excessive amounts of coffee which keeps me pissing and pooping. People always say they have no time to cook, but it’s funny how much extra time I have not owning one of those boob tubes or having the interwebs at home beyond my phone.
Taking in the bus today as I have an event in the evening but whatever. I’ll walk down to the shuttle from Madison Avenue for some steps though I got plenty in yesterday but that french onion soup and chicken pasta primavera was pretty heavy but I did burn a lot of calories riding and canvassing and tonight after the open bar I’ll be back on the healthy eating thing. I mean there is a reason I’m busing it in as I’ll be too drunk to load a bike on the bus. Indeed the french toast from my own homemade bread with blueberries and sugar free maple syrup was a start. And fried onions, black beans and some of the left over pasta primavera was a good start. And Sunday and Monday I pretty much eat the rice, beans, plain yogurt and oranges and bananas was good though not enough vegetables. Changing that for the balance of the week, lots of vegetables in meals planned for tomorrow and Friday. Plus I’ll bike in tomorrow and maybe Friday, though it will be dark at 5 PM an I’ll have to put my bike on the bus home, that is after riding back downtown. The schedule sucks with the transfer from the bike to the bus, but whats the alternative? Drive my big jacked up truck in.
I still want to take another long weekend before Southern Zone Hunting Seasons opens, but I’m seeing conflicting forecasts for the weekend. I am thinking if I take Monday off and then with Veterans Day it can be a four-day weekend, and leave for camp on Saturday morning. But not if it’s going to be too cold and wet and generally miserable on Sunday. I mean I really want to get back up to the woods and have a fire and ride trail before rifle season but not if it’s too nasty out. The next time I think I’ll have a chance to get out of town is Black Friday after Thanksgiving and maybe take that Monday off after the long weekend. That would likely be the East Branch but it depending on how snowy it is I’ve also been thinking the area along the Boreas River and NY 28N. Kind of want to get back to the High Peaks, I was rather inspired by that drive up to Plattsburgh for this past long weekend.
Cloudy to start out yesterday, but it got clearer as the sun rose though soon I was back out canvassing. But first I took some time to ride along the shoreline of the lake, which was very low because of the dry weather of recent, revealing well packed sand which was great for riding on. Rode down along the suspension bridge, took some more photos 
and caught some of the last glimmers of autumn. Yesterday, I spent the balance of day canvassing in the Village of Peru and then Lapham Mills, getting out the vote, then driving down through the Adirondack Northway in stillness of the moonlight of the full moon over the Adirondacks. 
Peru had the wonderful smell of apples 
though Lapham Mills was more tangy from Remillards Holsteins spreading shit. 
Their mountains of silage along the Adirondacks is always impressive. It’s November, the time when dairymen count the loads of shit spread before the frozen ground! 
Depending on the agricultural use, based on book I just read – Managing Manure – there is a time period often running 100 days between spreading and crop harvest. Depends on what your growing, and how much and when you need the spike of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous. Made me wish I had taken today off to and could have done an overnight in the Adirondacks like I don’t know, maybe outside of Newcomb or Minerva on Boreas River. 
But alas it’s back to work today. Maybe next weekend? Red seems to be running good.
It was good to get away though even if just for a weekend to some place I haven’t been in a years. The last time I was up through Plattsburgh was November 2015, when I did that road trip up to Brasher Falls State Forest. 
Some great ag country, then it opens up into the mountains in almost al directions. I just wish there were more options to camp in the wilderness nearby in developed roadside campsites, and then I could head back down into the valley to explore. In college I used to camp at Terry Mountain State Forest, 
but that was either back country or parking just at a random spot off the road.
so that’s reasonable. I’m not fully adjusted to the time change, but I actually like the early hour as it gives me time to cook and think. 
Some of my clearest thinking and best time to read is in the stillness of the morning. It’s cold and dark when I get home most nights, especially with the time change and winter getting underway, so I figure it’s best to retire to bed early 
and maximize the time in the morning. 
Plus it’s more of an excuse to drink excessive amounts of coffee which keeps me pissing and pooping. 
People always say they have no time to cook, but it’s funny how much extra time I have not owning one of those boob tubes or having the interwebs at home beyond my phone. 
as I have an event in the evening but whatever. I’ll walk down to the shuttle 
from Madison Avenue for some steps though I got plenty in yesterday but that french onion soup 
and chicken pasta primavera 
was pretty heavy but I did burn a lot of calories riding and canvassing and tonight after the open bar 
I’ll be back on the healthy eating thing. I mean there is a reason I’m busing it in as I’ll be too drunk to load a bike on the bus. Indeed the french toast from my own homemade bread 
with blueberries and sugar free maple 
syrup was a start. And fried onions, black beans 
and some of the left over pasta primavera was a good start. And Sunday and Monday I pretty much eat the rice, beans, plain yogurt and oranges and bananas 
was good though not enough vegetables. Changing that for the balance of the week, lots of vegetables in meals planned for tomorrow and Friday. Plus I’ll bike in tomorrow and maybe Friday, 
though it will be dark at 5 PM an I’ll have to put my bike on the bus home, that is after riding back downtown. The schedule sucks with the transfer from the bike to the bus, but whats the alternative? Drive my big jacked up truck in.
but I’m seeing conflicting forecasts for the weekend. I am thinking if I take Monday off and then with Veterans Day it can be a four-day weekend, and leave for camp on Saturday morning. But not if it’s going to be too cold and wet and generally miserable on Sunday. 
I mean I really want to get back up to the woods and have a fire 
and ride trail before rifle season but not if it’s too nasty out. The next time I think I’ll have a chance to get out of town is Black Friday after Thanksgiving and maybe take that Monday off after the long weekend. That would likely be the East Branch but it depending on how snowy it is I’ve also been thinking the area along the Boreas River and NY 28N. Kind of want to get back to the High Peaks, I was rather inspired by that drive up to Plattsburgh for this past long weekend. 
