Good morning! Happy Boxing Day 🥊 !

Except for the wind, and the ice everywhere, probably a good day to burn all those boxes you got yesterday. Keeps them out of the hands of media moguls who are just looking for a story about how everybody is getting robbed of their Christmas gifts.

Partly sunny and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. 😎 There is a northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 21 mph 💨💨💨. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 7 pm. ☃️

Icy out as I found when I went outside to grab something out of Big Red. ⛸ But I suspect at least on the roads the salt should not make it too rough, and I’ll probably hike out to Five Rivers in a bit. 🐦 Then this afternoon I need to get to the store — maybe Walmart or I could go across the river to Aldis and get groceries for the week. I also want to wash as much of the salt off of Big Red in Glenmont. Did you see they raised the prices at the Car Wash too? 🚿 💸 Inflation, it’s for real. And maybe return beer cans from camping.

Then it’s back to work on Monday. 💼 Only a four-day week with New Years Eve on Friday, but the other director is off this week, so everything falls on my lap. Lucky me. But I did get off a week, and I got out of town for four days, granted in rather cloudy and cold Central New York. But it’s winter and three months until April when it starts to get nicer, or so I tell myself.

Had a nice Christmas Lunch at the folks house on Christmas Eve 🎄 🎅 And then a very quiet Christmas at home, working on various little projects I had in the wings, including building a database for Save the Pine Bush with property data. It’s not quite done yet though, and will require more work. Also been working on refining map styles for the blog, and trying to create a state-wide set of contours to use on maps. I also finished unpacking from the camping trip, and doing some cleaning. I know, not the most romantic Christmas ever — but I didn’t want to drive back on Christmas in the rain and ice.