Be aware of misleading graphs and statistics, especially when people are appealing to science.
Nice lady called about my car warranty. 🤔
I was like, oh, it’s time already to throw away my car – with so many expensive problems certain to happen shortly! I asked if I just take my old car to the landfill? And do I get to push it over the edge? She’s like no, no, this about your warranty. I’m like but if my warranty is about to expire, I need to get rid of my car at the landfill so I’m not held financially responsible. She is like we can help you with your repairs if you sign up today. No, I’m just concerned with the high cost of landfill tipping fees – my car is nearly 3 tons. Can they recycle cars – I’ve heard they charge less at the landfill for recycling. She hung up.
Doesn’t she understand how our throwaway society works? You buy, you use, you throw away shortly thereafter. Nobody repairs anything anymore. Must not be a Real American.
Struggling with the changes of getting older
At age 35, I often struggle to figure out what is better to do today versus wait for tomorrow.👴 Every year as a mature and get older, options close, roads not taken are forever closed off to me. If you overshoot your exit, you can’t back up on the highway. There is no turning around the clock of time. ⏳I will never be as young as I currently am, I will become less physically able to do certain things that🏃 I once had the potential to do while I was younger.
Time per se is not a bad thing. A little money saved each week over time adds up 📈and compounds both as an investment and with interest.💰 Money opens up options, and buying with cash is always much cheaper and flexible than credit. Cash just goes so much farther.💵
While by no means should I take the first exit on the highway,🚧 I should be a thoughtful observer of every exit that I pass on by. A some point the highway of life may come to an abrupt end – accidents, cancer, heart attacks – sometimes strike people much too young.🐍 But honestly I know it’s worth the risk as their are better exits ahead on the straight and narrow highway, 🌻and just because a sign is shiny and new doesn’t mean that is the exit you want to your ultimate destination.
My conservative estimate is that I will likely live until age 70. Maybe longer, maybe less. 😯In ten years from now I’ll have 20 years in with the state, fifteen it will be 25. I’m generally happy with my course, I have a great job, a beautiful office with million dollar views of the mountains.🗻 I think I’m fairly good at my job. So even if I decide at age 45 or 50 to do something else, I’ll have many options still ahead of me. But I should really pay attention to what’s coming up on the highway of life, 🎰and give every passing exit another thought before leaving it forever in the rear view mirror.🔰
Political Paranoia and Dead Turtles
The other day I was reading a light-hearted post on Facebook about the dangers that turtles face while crossing highways and that people can help them by avoiding hitting them. Then of course there had to be a completely irrational animal rights extremist on that post, who had to warn people about those who would go out an intentionally hit turtles on the road, because apparently there are a lot of turtle haters in the world who have leak-proof steel tires and ultra-durable suspensions on their cars. I do not recommend hitting turtles, bricks, tin cans, glass bottles, large rocks, and other debris on the road – and certainly not intentionally. You can damage your suspension of your car, not to mention dent a rim or get a flat tire.
Political paranoia is the greatest threat facing our country. There are too many people who have a paranoid view of the world – and believe everybody is out to get them. Animal rights extremists believe that there are people out there actively to kill turtles for nothing but the fact they are turtles, and apparently people hate turtles – and want to destroy their cars in the process. Not that there is much evidence to that fact. But the paranoid don’t want to hear that. They want to believe that there are evil forces out there, actively working to destroy their world. Such people are not helpful to our country or the process of it’s governing, because they are demeaning well meaning, hard-working individuals and are distraction to actual needed change in our country.
Stillwater Reservoir Camping 🚤 ⛺
There are 46 designated campsites along the Stillwater Reservoir, along with a handful nearby or on the Moshier Reservoir.
Here are some useful maps.
Here is a list of coordinates for campsites along Stillwater Reservoir in the Western Adirondacks. You can also get this list as a Google Sheet.
| Name | Description | Coordinates |
| Big Moose Rd Campsite | 43.881036000325466,-75.0457000003833 | |
| Campsite 1 | Kettle Hole | 43.91087179257541,-75.03968430112016 |
| Campsite 2 | The Lagoon | 43.903977097671124,-75.02963748636475 |
| Campsite 3 | Evergreen Landing | 43.904584325331804,-75.01959543839234 |
| Campsite 4 | Peaked Mountain Outlet | 43.907127245272704,-75.00285831980182 |
| Campsite 5 | 43.90586912218538,-75.00090074522005 | |
| Campsite 6 | 43.90632154558408,-74.99552556384639 | |
| Campsite 7 | 43.90000491925868,-74.98240129784713 | |
| Campsite 8 | 43.91144696964229,-74.98463094251615 | |
| Campsite 9 | North Shore | 43.909908730517515,-74.97942422010028 |
| Campsite 10 | Island 26 | 43.910994330529824,-74.97320721157439 |
| Campsite 11 | Halstead’s | 43.91498978397045,-74.97239159382124 |
| Campsite 12 | Popple Point | 43.916076986426134,-74.96536010029281 |
| Campsite 13 | Rockwell Point | 43.917891111444156,-74.96201085648185 |
| Campsite 14 | Shallow Cut | 43.91873673325241,-74.95782501995895 |
| Campsite 15 | Smokey Bear Stump | 43.92345520446557,-74.95514287625957 |
| Campsite 16 | Hemlock Knoll | 43.921880882369145,-74.95229790374844 |
| Campsite 17 | Island 33 | 43.92502189140718,-74.94091017327614 |
| Campsite 18 | Deer Bay | 43.918124779071036,-74.94208887334926 |
| Campsite 19 | High Knoll-Big Burn | 43.92115213629026,-74.94627140472733 |
| Campsite 20 | 43.90927978682487,-74.9581893230617 | |
| Campsite 21 | 43.915417305379634,-74.9545671476461 | |
| Campsite 22 | North Shore Narrows | 43.91461838150145,-74.94828609091334 |
| Campsite 23 | 43.91633713940584,-74.93845492700764 | |
| Campsite 24 | Gun Harbor Entrance | 43.918481681184815,-74.93103937885131 |
| Campsite 25 | North Branch | 43.92790650092124,-74.91060106938106 |
| Campsite 26 | 43.92959998697331,-74.88667838335716 | |
| Campsite 27 | 43.91155768485678,-74.93308267712807 | |
| Campsite 28 | 43.90518884876708,-74.94691378360277 | |
| Campsite 29 | 43.91148146764025,-74.95521214716841 | |
| Campsite 30 | 43.91034098059357,-74.9635958834694 | |
| Campsite 31 | 43.90879791400817,-74.96557386780817 | |
| Campsite 32 | 43.90496833871764,-74.96921360218568 | |
| Campsite 33 | 43.904397767716866,-74.97387937552598 | |
| Campsite 34 | 43.90274084237983,-74.97925711300107 | |
| Campsite 36 | 43.89899916062253,-74.99891669724019 | |
| Campsite 37 | 43.89685381848027,-75.00321613580694 | |
| Campsite 38 | 43.89370907873536,-75.00748530304966 | |
| Campsite 39 | 43.86994406600552,-74.9935282362608 | |
| Campsite 40 | 43.87272579149077,-74.98622252146845 | |
| Campsite 41 | 43.86392185993403,-75.00139684952404 | |
| Campsite 42 | 43.86483657785204,-75.00400465044677 | |
| Campsite 43 | 43.869009072028994,-75.0169657056145 | |
| Campsite 45 | 43.87678296342001,-75.02613648057141 | |
| Campsite 46 | 43.87803900307188,-75.03301360072118 | |
| Primitive Campsite | 43.9275239999265,-74.94542999990668 | |
| Primitive Campsite | 43.91166670228568,-75.00473046595764 | |
| Primitive Campsite | 43.89242065053876,-75.09779773207337 | |
| Primitive Campsite | 43.893221999577904,-75.0705230000813 | |
| Primitive Campsite | 43.89667064569648,-75.09749340678908 |
Stewart Landing Campsites 🏕️
The Stewart Landing Campsites are tucked on a rough and often muddy dirt road, a little ways back from Stewart Landing Road. Look for a driveway and a markers showing the route to campsites. The DEC has improved the road somewhat in recent years.
| Campsite | Latitude | Longitude |
| Stewart Landing #1 | 43.143107567736 | -74.5960777933815 |
| Stewart Landing #2 | 43.1428427379704 | -74.5963644011855 |
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But still they’re not a bad place to be, especially if your planning on doing some hiking or paddling on West Canada Lake.
And in the spring when I was there, it was pretty quiet.
But I’m sure on a nice day like this one there would be a lot more people up there.
I really hate washing out containers for recycling ♻
Mayonnaise jars, peanut butter jars, pasta jars.
They all come in plastic these days. Increasingly thin plastic too as material science evolves. When they get used up, what is left is just a sticky residue that is difficult to remove before tossing in the recycling bin, requiring and wasting a lot of soap and water. They are just so much easier to chuck in a hot fire, let them turn into carbon dioxide that will become plant food. Especially when you know so much of urban recycling is a feel good scam. I can’t wait to own my own land out in the country.