Already the woods is starting to get the browns and grays start to overtake the remaining green in the Adirondacks. It was only 46 degrees driving north this morning to Speculator. And at 6:30 it’s getting dark fast. And Tuesday is October.

It was an early start to the morning ⏰ though I was running late on my trip up to Speculator because I had trouble getting going this morning and the fog 🌫 at times on the drive up here was pretty intense. It was fine, I stopped at Samdills on the way north, got sweet corn 🌽 and egg plant, 🍆, they’re done with summer squash for the year. Had lot of winter squash and pumpkins 🎃 but I’m not going to cook that up at camp.

The fog was awful driving up especially around Gloversville, 🌫 nobody was using their headlights with their black and silver cars and they were all but invisible. Made it up north safely but it was not a fun drive at times. 🚘 Didn’t get dinged for any braking or speeding events this time.

Got to the Speculator library around 9:30 and plunged into work. 🖥 By then I had over a dozen data jobs to process and 🔢 a campaign plan to review along with a handful of mailers. ✉ I’d get one data job done and start the next. I headed over to Harmon Hill around one o’clock to set up camp 🏕 which I did while data jobs were running or while I was waiting for more info on targets and requests to come in. Surprisingly as most of my work these days is data processing, I really don’t use that much data as text compresses 🗜 really well plus they keep giving me more data for my phone 📱 plan.

I am just shocked 😲 how much of the leaves are gone in the Adirondacks after yesterday’s rain ☔. Autumn is well underway around here, regardless of how green it might be in Albany. But it was in forties driving up 🚘 here this morning and the days have certainly gotten shorter, especially now that there is more night 🌃 then daylight at this point. The day was pretty warm with the sun ☀ but once it set, things cooled down quickly for sure.

Checking Moose Festival in Indian Lake 🦌 out tomorrow and then riding back to the Essex Chain Lakes. 🚲 And maybe Watch Hill if time allows, which it won’t. Sunday riding through Perkins Clearing and hiking back to Little Moose Lake. Going to be a nice day I think.