Cool and gray for the second day of vacation 🌫️

Most of the morning was drenched in heavy fog and dampness while yesterday rain into the night. Mostly just a drizzle but hardly nice weather.

It’s been a good day for cooking, 🧑‍🍳 reading, smoking pot and drinking. Giggling 🤭 enjoying fresh farm produce and more clams. 🦪Just kind of a cool gray day. I would have spent time fishing 🎣 but I realized my pole was broken. Out riding this evening, went up to Foster Pond and now at Ballard Pond. Hoping for a good sunset but that seems unlikely at this point.  🚲 Going to ride up along the No-Nan-Tanko trail and go to Teeter Pond and hope to see the sunset from whatever the pasture is up that way. 🌇

Whatever, the weather is going to be a lot nicer tomorrow and Saturday, ☀️ rain on Sunday but maybe that’s another day for hanging out at camp 🏕️ as the rest of the week seems pretty good. It’s a long vacation so I can certainly afford some down time. Had a few little work projects to do – I hoped to wrap them up before leaving town but whatever. I muted Zillow for the week, I’m tired of seeing ghetto houses and plastic suburbanite crap on my phone. 📱

I guess vacation is about relaxing 😴 and I did spend a good portion of the day in the hammock. And some time at the side of Johnson Pasture watching the cows 🐄 graze. Listening to them rip the grass. My boots are still damp, my jeans muddy and my hands covered with grease 👐 when the chain 🔗 slipped off my bike. Front derailleur is still fucked up on my bike, 🚲 I’ve lately been using a rock to keep it in position. I can’t figure out how to get it properly adjust, I’ll mess with it more this winter. I don’t know if I’m going to ride to work all winter this year but it sucks taking the local bus and transferring to the shuttle especially with the time between the transfer. 🚌 Tomorrow is the last day ever for the express bus. Maybe someday it will return. I know I should walk laps in the Plaza 👣 and get yelled at by the homeless people and then take the bus home and retire to the warmth of the electric blanket.

Truth is that it’s very deja moo, 🐮 I feel like this trip is so bland and boring but I guess it’s better than staying home 🏡. Everybody expected me to take a summer vacation and it’s good to be away. I’ve been so busy in the office 🏢 constantly developing new products and services. Yet I wasn’t ready to take my increasingly creaky old truck out to Michigan this year but I know the window to take such trips is closing in as soon I’ll end up settling down and have a house and goats to feed. 🐐 But for now I’m in the Finger Lakes National Forest listening to the cows chew their cud, slinging cow shit with my mountain bike hoping for a good sunset or two as I smoke more grass. 🌾