Good morning! What a dreary New Years Eve 🎆 !

I would say, certainly not the nicest weather ever to end out the year. All of the long weekend looks kind of crappy unfortunately though.

Cloudy with rain showers around, about 43 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. Not much snow or ice but a lot of mud around. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around 6 pm. ☃️

I had hoped to get out of town to go camping this weekend, 🏕 you know light some fireworks off, bake some cookies on the fire, have some egg nog, stay up until midnight, and then hot tent, but with rain expected tonight, and it already drizzling, I decided to stay in town. 🥛 Truth be told, after the long cold four days I spent out in Madison County earlier in the week, I was hardly excited about heading back out to Central NY.

Later today, I am going out the folks house for a New Years Tradition 🥘 — Cheese Fondue. They’ve been doing for decades, and while all that cheese kind of makes my stomach a big achy, it’s still kind of a fun tradition that’s been going on for decades. Now with everybody vaccinated and boosted we can do it again.

It’s been a pretty good year. 😀 It certainly has it’s ups and downs, but in the end things worked out fairly well. I managed to max out my retirement, I got that shinny corner office with the brass lamp, making a good salary, although it still seems like the money is gone 💸 two days after it comes in with inflation and savings. After months of dealing with tires and repairs to the truck, I got it back on the road, and then took a third week to spend some time in Madison County. 🏕 Got down to Pennsylvania and West Virigina, got a tube for floating in rivers ⚫ spent a lot of weekends up in the woods and even had clams and lots of beer that one summer long weekend 🕹what now seems so long ago in the summer.