This past weekend was the first time in nearly six months when I was fully offline – up in the Adirondack wilderness where there was no cell service. While I don’t have Wi-Fi at home, I am always connected these days with my smartphone with unlimited data.

Last summer my FM radio broke so I didn’t have any way to get the news while I was away. But I was fine about it as most news these days has become essentially partisan propaganda, usually talking how the GOP is taking away our abortion rights or that we need to surrender our guns to the government because of the latest over hyped mass shootings.

It was nice to not have to listen to all that crap or have it flooding my social media feeds, although truth be told I’ve blocked most of it. I don’t follow any of my political friends. But still so much of the social media crap still blows through. Plus I spend much too much time looking at homesteading and farming pages, the latest deer people harvest, show cattle and backyard pigs and of course all things relating to rednecks burning their trash.

The moonlit nights and the cold felt good on the skin.