Good afternoon! Talk about a hot and sticky early summer day. 😰

That brief but intense rain storm has dropped the mercury a lot along with dropping some heavy rain and dramatically increasing the relative humidity.

Rain and thunderstorms and 76 degrees in Dormansville, NY. ⛈️ There is a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 61 degrees.

Out at my parents house for Sunday dinner 🐔 and then I’ll do a quick hike up Bennett Hill later this evening, assuming that it’s not pouring out. If I was responsible I would go to the grocery store 🛒 but I’m not but I have enough food to make do for at least a few more days.

While I felt find – minus allergies 👃🏻 especially outside yesterday at Five Rivers with the polen, I decided I should take a COVID-19 test before visiting my parents. First time ever for me – I was a bit concerned as many people in my office 🏢 and some friends lately have gotten COVID and my parents are quite elderly 🧓 now. It wasn’t pleasant to say the least ramming that swab up my nose – kind of hurt and tickled – but at least I was negative.

My parent’s neighbors big black diesel coal rolling truck 🛻 has a decal on it that says, “Diesel smoke makes me horny”. 📯 I love rednecks, though I don’t know, my big jacked up truck is kind of expensive to operate but at least it doesn’t blow $6.75 a gallon diesel out its stacks. I so idolize trailer trash, their ATVs, feeder cattle and pigs on their junk filled homestead. 🐽 Real life, not plastic suburbia.

Often I see these homesteading channels on the internet 🐮 and they are so perfect, free of mud and manure, blood and maggots that are sometimes just part of rural life. Trust me, I know what kerosene and hog manure smell like at times, and I’ve broken the ice in frozen water trays and even walked into work with chicken shit on my boots 👢. I am a dirty hick 👨‍🌾and I love the dirty hick life.

Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐸 yesterday was nice but it was hot and muggy. Not a lot of people or wildlife there. Still better than being stuck home. With gas prices ⛽ so high I’m trying to avoid all non essential trips that I can avoid. Figure save the truck for when I’m heading out of town.