Sometimes I think the weathermen are over dramatic about the cold. If you have frost sensetive plants or crops, your going to want to harvest them or bring them in but for the rest of us I think if anything today is warmer out then yesterday.

It’s mid-October so one would expect it to be colder out, 🍁 indeed I have my heated blanket out and the windows closed. But when I ran to Stewart’s this morning to get milk 🐮 it really didn’t feel that cold on my face. There is no wind this morning, which helps a lot. I was surprised 🤨 how actually cold it felt at the end of day yesterday for the ride home from Menands.  Still a fair bit of daylight left for the evening commute home, indeed I took a slightly longer route home, 🚴 but certainly by the time dinner was done it was dark.

After dinner, I crawled into bed 🛏️ and watched a Youtube video and put on a podcast and was asleep by around 8 PM. Cool enough I didn’t feel like staying up plus the heat isn’t on but that heated blanket fell so wonderful though it was quickly too hot and had to be turned off.♨️ It’s not really the cold part of winter yet. Now if I only had a house with a woodstove 🪵I probably would be willing to be up much later. But I also was tired after my first day of in-person work after being sick last week. I tell myself I am fully recovered, but my nose 👃 still runs a lot with the cold outside riding to and from work, and I still have an occasional hoarse voice 🐴 and a crackling cough. It’s not like it was but it’s not perfect either.

After getting to Stewart’s for milk, had my coffee ☕ and oatmeal-whole wheat flour pancakes. 🥞 Topped with lots of frozen strawberries and seasoned with pumpkin spice mix. 🎃 Definitely feels like mid-October this morning, very dark and gray to start out the day, but it’s supposed to clear out as the day is going. That caffine jolt is helping a lot, 😀 I am going to shower and get on my way. 🚴 I see that they are constructing the Dark Horse Cannabis dispensary on the way into the office, though I dout they’ll be open for the ride in, it’s nice to have additional options not that I buy that much cannabis but I do like to have an occassional smoke up at a camp.  🚲️ All week with the chain greased up and everything adjusted, things have been working great on the bike front. Laptop also is working pretty good now that I reset the BIOS with the new charger.  🔌 Holding off replacing the battery in the laptop for now. 🪫

Weekend still looks most excellent, ☀️ Thursday after work and meetings I’ll need to go to store and get propane and whatever other supplies I’m missing for the long weekend. 💼 Maybe I should start packing this evening so there is less to do on Thursday. Abuse some of those Caffine Pills 💊 and be off before sunrise on Friday. 🌄 Then it’s off to the land of chopped corn silage and cow shit now that autumn is underway. 🌽🐮💩 Work all day, then have that rip-roaring Friday campfire 🔥 with the Dire Wolf. 🐺 Fun times. I promise I won’t burn too much plastic or smoke too much pot, or do anything that involves 600 lb of sin. Then ride and kayak on Saturday int Sunday. At least one good adventure in colors of autumn before it’s dun. 📸 Maybe on Monday, I can remote work from Glimmerglass State Park 🏞️. It would likely be a beautiful day before heading home.