Good morning! A Sticky, Muggy Monday in September. 😰

It really feels like a swamp outside today. Maybe some drizzle but it’s really all about the humidity today. Autumn, what’s right? Feels more like a damp summer day.

Cloudy with rain sprinkles, humid and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 62 degrees. The skies will clear around noontime.

Dropped my phone 🤳 twice this morning on my walk down to the express bus 🚍. My hands 👐 are wet from the sweat and I kept getting tangled in the headphones. 🎧 I should get a replacement for the Bluetooth headphones but they never have anyone in electronics at Wally World. Plus the emails keep rolling in while I walk down to the bus. 📧

I did get shopping last night at Wally World, 🍔 getting a bunch of groceries, which like every week was more expensive then last. 🤑 And they have more stuff locked up. But I like still like how they have more bulk packaged stuff then the grocery store, which means less stuff that I end up having to get rid of 🔥 or take to the transfer station for recycling. I was very happy that I was able to get hot sauce in plastic container, ♻️ as I really hate glass, as I worry about breaking it, and it takes a lot of room and weight in the recycling. Plus I’m very dubious about glass recycling. Seems like a lot of trash dumps in the woods are just full of glass. 🍾

The weekend came and went. 🕊 It was there until I blinked my eyes 👀 and it was gone. I did enjoy the relaxed final weekend trip out to Thacher Park. I enjoyed the six Saturdays I spent up at Thacher Park, and while there is one more Nature Bus 🚌 the week of September 25th, I will probably be heading up to the Adirondacks. I enjoy having a Saturday to explore the park and back roads, lay in the hammock, do some reading and hike. Saturday, I hiked over 15 miles. Sunday with the clouds and rain, I did far less hiking around.

After listening to that podcast about pack goats 🐐 my fascination with them continues. I read a book about goat farming a while back, I think it was last summer, and they seem like a useful animal on the farmstead, to say nothing about hiking. Much easier to bring on a trip then a dog, as they don’t have the water needs and browse their own forages. Plus they are great for cleaning up overgrown areas in the woods. Or at least I’ve been brandwashed by Marc Warnke. 🧠 I do remember how stinky buck goats can get when they spray themselves with urine so to attract females.