Up at 5 AM to boil down the coffee and shred the carrots for the pancakes. I’m already through a bag and half of cranberries since I bought the four 12-oz bags on Friday evening for 97 cents a piece. I do like cranberries, but I like bitter shit like that as I’m kind of bitter son of a bitch.
Continuing to read that book 📙 about butchering, 🗡️ smoked some weed last night and listened to more of the Fairport Convention along with Ian and Sylvia. Eventually I did ride my bike out to Five Rivers, thinking about it again today, but it’s pretty windy and cold out. At first when I woke up and it was still and cold, I was thinking how I wish I had done an overnight last night as I watch as next weekend fades to crap, but certainly I want to get out at least on Christmas Day 🎄 to the woods to have a fire and be away from all that Christmas crap. 🎁
Made a big pot of black beans yesterday 🍲 making sure to wash them and put extra salt on them to keep them from getting stinky or making me stinky from farting after eating too many. Fried them up with onions and corn for lunch. 🧅 I often prefer pinto beans as their somewhat cheaper and more flexible, but both are good and probably black beans are somewhat healthier. I froze the remaining pea soup I had from earlier in the week, to avoid it starting to get tangy in fridgerator. I have some acorn squash I want to cook when I’m baking bread 🍞 on Monday morning. I also might make up some brown rice and have rice and beans this week too. I don’t plan to go to the grocery store again until after I get my truck inspected 🔎 on Wednesday. I was going to work from home that day, but honestly, I have the time, and I think I’d rather just drop my truck off and ride and hang out most of the day I don’t know at various parks or seeing the country on my bike if it’s not cold and gray. 🌥️ If I was honest with myself, I’ll probably spend it home reading as it will be cold and nasty.
Ran into an old colleague at Five Rivers, 🐸 catching up on the happenings at the Capitol and soon it was getting dark, but honestly I didn’t expect to spend much time walking around there, I mostly went out there to get some exercise riding out there, 🚲 and past by Meads’ Cows 🐮 out there. Kind of a cold, dark gray day yesterday too. Wouldn’t have been real great in Rennselaerville for sure. Also started reading another book on working with custom builders, not that I’m sure that’s the route I want to go, but I just hate those grid-tied, plastic houses with weekly 96-gallkon trash service in the suburbs, not that I’m necessarily embracing a stinky smoldering load of plastic fires every other day. 🔥 Though, some thing stink when you burn them, so their best kept downwind just like your hog pens. 🐽 I’ve been mostly staying off Facebook, really trying to instead read more on Libby and Hoopla, 📰 along with keeping up better with the various magazines but not getting too much into the depth of swamp of the Love the Cops and Government Workers 👮 that the press really wants to you to be ever so scared of.
Heading out to visit the parents later today and empty out the compost bucket which is mostly full at this point. 🪣 Not of spoiled food but apple cores, carrot tops and banana peals and other similar things. I really try to avoid wasting food, 🥕 as unlike many people, I don’t have unlimited money as I don’t want one of those woke suburban houses with vinyl siding. It is amazing how rich and wasteful the poor people are. And I was bitching about my $95 electric and gas bill last month, but I’ve done a lot of cooking and hiding under the electric blanket, and probably taken too long of hot showers but I also keep my heat at 48 degrees except for that real cold day this winter. 🔌 Of course, I’m saying that, sitting next to my space heater which has been basically off except for this morning but I like being warm.