A Rainy Saint Patrick’s Day

It’s the holiday brought to you by triphenylmethane and chlorophyllins, the later which is considered less bad to put in your body, as made from chlorophyll which is green because plants absorb primarily red and blue light to turn into energy with carbon dioxide. But as the tangy smell from the air reminds us on this morning, they got to get the manure out on the ground before things can turn nice and green and into hay and silage for moo-moos.

It’s raining out so no riding to work. It’s fine, that was the forecast and tomorrow I can’t ride in either as it’s going to a meeting after work with Save the Pine Bush. Wednesday through Friday I should be able to ride in and possibly this weekend I’ll ride trail and maybe do an overnight in wilderness if the weather is good. Nice not having to work evenings or weekends in March.

Back to work but I’m hoping for another quick to pass by winter weekend, as spring approaches. Obviously the farmers have faith in the changing seasons and so should I. I still want to get a night in the wilderness and have a big fire and I know those days aren’t that far away. Maybe I could ride in but I don’t want to risk getting soaked. Lots of rain on the radar. Plus there are the drunks to deal with on the roads in the evening. It’s fine, I’ll bus it in.

I do need to get shopping tonight,  though I wanted to wait until to tonight for a couple of reasons. I am thinking of washing my truck tonight, and I figured it would be good to do after the salt is off the roads. Plus it breaks up the week going shopping after work, and Monday nights are often slower at the grocery store, with better stock and less crowds. Especially on Saint Patrick’s Day. Hopefully get home before dark after shopping, so there aren’t drunks on the road, though it’s not like it’s a long trip to the supermarket. I’ll drive carefully and if there are drunks on the road this evening, give them lots of room.

Got reading about laundry powder vs liquid laundry detergent. It sounds silly but I’m trying to get away from packaging, as much as possible in my life, especially those thick plastic packages that burn black and are noxious. Recycling is such a scam, but I also want to avoid glass which never goes away and metals which don’t burn though probably actually have some value in recycling. There is some disadvantages to traditional laundry powder, like it’s not as effective on difficult stains, but it seem so much less wasteful then those big plastic jugs.

Used to be I used styrofoam plates and plastic forks all of the time at camp — and even in summer at home — and burnt them up, but truth is it kind of stinks and those chemicals are nasty. But I’ve really tried to get away from so much plastic, especially now that I’m looking more at my own land, and I don’t want to make a mess of it even if I don’t want to go to dump with bags and bags of garbage every week. Used to think it was fine if it burnt up completely — silly greenies — but I think it’s better to avoid consuming such things in the first place. I might drive a big jacked up truck, but I do try to be more sustainable even if I don’t have that off-grid property yet and still buy some things in plastic. 🫝 Still, I prefer to have more compost then things to burn these days, no matter how much fun watching dripping plastic might be.