Delmar, NY

Good morning! Monday’s come back around again.

🌹🌻🌼Only 13 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Cloudy and 39 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The snow is mostly gone. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing around 4 am. ☃️

No rain yet but its coming. ☔ I can pretty much assure you of that fact. But for now it’s a pretty mild morning for the morning walk before work.

So damp this morning that my muzzles are still damp from washing last night. 😷 Hopefully they’ll dry a bit more later on after I iron them. Usually washing them on Sunday and drying them overnight isn’t a problem in the winter months with low humidity.

After going out to see my parents on Sunday, I finally got to the grocery store 🛒and washed my truck 🛻. Lady in the big car wash with a little car was embarrassed 😳 when she saw me in my big jacked up truck and let me get in there right away and use the remaining time. I only did the four 4⃣ minute wash after that which was good because it started to rain on my way home 🏡 and there was no rain earlier to fully clean the salt off the road. Well, I tried winter sucks.

I tried to get enough groceries for two weeks so I can avoid driving to the store and using more fuel ⛽. I could always take the Bus Plus 🚍 to the Central Ave Hannaford to get groceries if there is a few things that I run out. I rarely go shopping though midweek. I thought about getting gas last night because I think it will only get more expensive in the near future but at this point I’m only driving like 30 miles a week mostly for one trip to the store and car wash a week.

I plan on using a lot more fuel ⛽ come summer but I figure save while I still can. With inflation I may have to rethink part of my budget although I’m hoping for a cost of living adjustment which will help a bit. I doubt I’ll be increasing my savings rate any time soon with so much higher fuel prices for my big jacked up truck. 🛻

I decided to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches 🥪 this week for a change and to try to cut expenses wherever possible. I am kind of tired of the hot lunch. It’s been years of chicken paddies, seasoned chicken and ravioli. 🐔 I just wanted something different and cut costs wherever possible in my budget. Walmart had jelly in plastic which I prefer as it can either be saved for recycling ♻ or burnt. 🥫 Often fire 🔥 beats scrubbing out nasty jars for recycling which is kind of a joke. 🃏

I fixed the broken code on my blog 💔 which broke when they upgraded the server to PHP 8.1 which broke part of the weather templates system which previously didn’t test for invalid data being coerced into null. 🖥 Also debugged