John Boyd Thacher State Park, is situated along the Helderberg Escarpment, one of the richest fossil-bearing formations in the world. Even as it safeguards six miles of limestone cliff-face, rock-strewn slopes, woodland and open fields, the park provides a marvelous panorama of the Hudson-Mohawk Valleys and the Adirondack and Green Mountains. The park has volleyball courts, playgrounds, ball fields and numerous picnic areas with nine reservable shelters. Interpretive programs are offered year-round, including guided tours of the famous Indian Ladder Trail. There are over 25 additional miles of trails for summer hiking and mountain biking, and winter cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and snowmobiling.
Since Monday evening I’ve been watching the thermal sensors on my computer carefully, ever since I brought the laptop home, and it was complaining about the fan not properly spinning up on boot. Things are running a bit hot especially but actually within the recommended limits. I’ll have to see if I need to clean the fan or replace it, maybe this weekend but it’s working okay except when I push it hard.
Rode in at a little after 7 AM this morning, so I could be in the office by 8 AM to make sure I got my hours in for the week 🚲 as tomorrow I’ll be working downtown. Plus I had work to do. 📜 Just been so busy lately. Who knows what the weather will be like by evening, but I can suck it up and ride in the rain downtown to catch the express hoe if it’s bad or wait out a thunderstorm in my office. 🌩 At least riding in one way gets some exercise in. 💪 I am excited, my new business cards came in today. Why I didn’t order them before the vendor came in last month, or
Johnnycakes this morning with lots of onions and garlic from shauls. 🧄🧅 🥞 Topped them off with non-fat greek yogurt and included lot of tumeric. Also while on cooking with tumeric, I made up rice and creamy red lentils 🥟 which should make up a good lunch. I haven’t done many rice dishes lately, in part because it’s been kind of hot, and who wants a big pot cooking down on the stove, and because change is good, and because I still have too many carbs in my diet, especially when you consider how much oatmeal 🥣 I’ve been eating. Milled oats are so good with bananas but I”ve been eating so much of them lately. 🍌
If I didn’t have seven interviews scheduled for tomorrow and wasn’t a bit short on vacation time, and it didn’t look so stormy for the coming weekend, maybe I would have found a way to extend my weekend out in Schoharie for a few more days. It was nice, particularly at that Betty Brook site.
Turns out that I didn’t run out of propane this morning, 🔥 but instead I forgot to turn the tank back on this morning, and if I had done that I would have had enough fuel to make it through the morning. I guess it took a while to burn the fuel out of the lines in the hot weather, and I should have known that but I wasn’t thinking clearly. Must have been the pot I smoked last night. Always blame it on the drugs, and not my stupidity. At any rate, campfire breakfast was good. 🍳
It was nice at the car show 🚘 but a hot day for sure, with the sun beating down and humidity. Turns out the Fultonham Country Store next to Shauls — the ice cream stand — doesn’t open until 2 PM. 🍦I know that’s kind of lame, but so be it. Spend a lot of time soaking my feet down in the Schoharie Creek by Mine Kill before going to Shauls to get a few more produce things, 🌽 🍆 then the auto show and the pool. 🏊♀️
Doing my wash currently at my parents house 👕 I may see if I can if I can stay overnight to beat the heat and because it will probably be dark 🌆 before things are done. It won’t be bad sleeping in the truck camper with the fan running, then I can listen to podcasts or stream other content, kind of like I can do at home.
Going to be a hot week. 😅 But then again, that’s to be expected this time of year. Ten the heat breaks come mid-week. I’m just hoping things will get hot again for summer vacaton.
You can usually find county and agency ArcGIS REST/Services one of two ways:
Type into Google Greene County NY “REST/Services” and search for the index then copy and paste into QGIS ArcGIS REST tab or use with Leaflet
Type into Google Saratoga County NY Interactive Map, then open up Web Tools in your browser, click the Network tab on bottom and search for Network resources containing either the term MapServer or feature. Some might be the standard ArcGIS Aerial or Topographic layers but if you look carefully you can find the URL for the ARC MapServer or FeatureServer.
