Autumn… It hits you 🍁

The past few weeks have had my mind filled with only one real thought, the days leading up to my LASIK surgery. I knew that date would come and go quite smoothly as a technology refined and done a million times over. But at the same time it seemed hard to imagine a world beyond it. Much like my summer vacation. Would Red make it through it all?

The summer ended dry and hot, though last week we finally got some days of much needed rain. I spent a weekend in Vermont and then Rennselaerville. It was so dry, trees were fading to brown and some colors early. I would have gone north but I had things to attend to locally. But maybe next weekend I’ll head north for a week. I’m still uncertain about my final semi big trip with Red.

Soon it will be cold, I should be on my landlord to replace the rotted out door at my apartment before the chill of winter sets in. Maybe he can tack together the rotted door like my former landlord but truth is the composite door needs replacement. I’ll find ways to keep my mind busy as the cold and darkness of winter descends as the color of autumn rapidly fades.

I know I should be looking at getting my own land or at least a better apartment or maybe a condo. I mean I make good money and saved a lot over the years. But I’m really not set on New York State – it’s more than just wanting the freedom to burn my trash out back. It’s where I make my money building and cleaning datasets and running campaigns and spend my weekends in the wilderness but there is so much I find distasteful about this state and the urban life of plastic but I’m hardly a lover of the Trumpster or AOC.

I know another summer will come after this one, I’ll build or more like buy and bolt together the parts of the new rig, travel and explore to distant places like Michigan and Northern Wisconsin. Places that do not necessarily share the same urban values but also aren’t a bunch of bible humping, Trump loving, rape the land rednecks as the news media makes them out to be. Maybe I’m too in love with the landscapes and make the noble savages, noble. But so much of recycling and solar panels is a celebration of plastic.