Making pea soup with shredded carrots and turmeric beacause it’s so fucking good and loaded with fiber especially with a little balsamic vinegar which I should have but don’t have. I know you have to recycle the glass bottle for landfill roads but whatever it lasts for a while especially if you get abig bottle. I’ll have to find creative uses for “waste” glass when I have a homestead as despite what the corporations want you to believe, recycling isn’t real unless you do it on the homestead yoruself.
I went to Hannaford last night and was particularly annoyed by all the brightly colored packages, 🥫 hawking more and more processed foods loaded with sugar, fat, and salt by the corporate scientists, designed to sell conveince by the marketers. 💵 All I could think of was that pungent smell of all burnt plastic and colorful glossy paper, and the morbidly obese government workers🫃🏻 as they drive from their suburban houses with the vinyl siding in their Honda CRV SUV. Of course, they all have weekly trash pickup, and recycle and send their monthly checks to PBS and Sierra Club and only use organic toilet paper endorsed by said organizations. 🧻 I mean, if you use a an outhouse or composting toilet, toilet paper does help tie down the nitrogen in all that urine and a lesser extent the poop. But if I a house a shitty septic system, I would get a bidet or at least a waste basket for the toilet paper for burning. Though nothing like that time I went to Wally World on vacation two years ago after smoking earlier in the morning, and I had a little more THC on my brain that I realized and was shocked by the bright colors. 🌈 It was insane how blue everything was at Walmart and how the packaging was bursting with artificial color.
So at 4:50 AM I was up and starting cooking down at the peas 🍲 and making more coffee ☕ using reused and new beans. I realize all that reused coffee beans is why I am staining my teeth, that and the redicolously strong dark roasts they have in the office. I was blaming it on the marijuana smoking up at camp, but I think it’s really the coffee. But it’s bad, my teeth looking disgusting lately, but I’ve heard it’s actually not harming them. I’ve learned if I want any chance of sleeping in the evening, and not waking up at 1 AM or 3 AM in some kind of crazy 🤪 session of wokeness, I need avoid more then 1 cup of the crack in a cup they hand out for free in the office. ☕ Honestly, I don’t give a fuck if my teeth are yellow, but I don’t want to become bucktoothed at young age, because dentures are mad expensive and a pain in the ass. Maybe I fully understand with my elderly parents now how important good teeth and eating good shit really is in an era of wokeness covered with recyclable plastics and colorful symbols and colored television advertising. ♻️ Don’t you know, save the earth, recycle and put solar panels on your suburbanite house. So many ads for asphalt roofies and vinyl siding on social media.
This time of year, the mornings are so dark, 🌃 especially with the clouds. 🌥️ I might want to turn the tail lights on my bike at least until I get to the bike trail for safety so I am visible to the motorists as I ride my mountain bike to work. 🚲 I decided not to head out to camp 🏕️ tonight, though I might spend tomorrow out in the woods somewhere, riding trail or hiking, and then maybe stay overnight. I don’t know, it depends on how cold and cloudy tomorrow. If not the alternative is hop on my mountain bike and ride out to Five Rivers or maybe somewhere else undecided. Been a few weeks since I’ve been to the Hollyhock. 🐦 That hill is a blast toride down and it wouldn’t burn gasoline. ⛽
Of all the fossil fuels, athracite coal is probably my favorite for heating. Maybe it's because it's a niche fuel you can drive your pickup to a anthracite dealer, and haul a few months home at a time. And it's a very warm heat, one that lasts all day and night, without being dependent on regular fuel deliveries. And its not automatic, thoughtlessly consuming fossil energy without some maintance of the system.
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I was reading more of Michael Moss’ Sugar, Salt and Fat about the history of ultra-processed food and specifically the section about tang. They noted the primary reason why NASA was interested in Tang, that artificial orange beverage, was it had virtually no fiber which made it easier for the human waste osmosis system to recycle water on the space ship.
I had to Google the term, and found out the so-called low residue diet is a thing, especially with people with bowl disorders like Crohn’s disease or even hemorrhoids, though I think with the later you’d actually want more fiber to help pass poop easier. That said, it sounds pretty disgusting and unhealthy – if anything I think you would want more fiber not less in your diet – as Americans already eat way too much processed foods without enough fiber to keep the poop moving through your body. Fiber is key to healthy digestion and moving the unusual parts of food through your stomach.
I always try to add more fiber to my diet from unprocessed sources – be it shredded carrots on pancakes, onions, beans, whole and chopped up fruits. Fiber takes up a lot of space in your stomach which displaces your intake of fats, sugar, and carbohydrates. It literally fills you up and reduces your ability to overeat. Plus it guides excessive nutrients through your digestive track and out the other side.
Good, solid, regular poops is a good thing. Fiber really does that. When you hear about people who don’t poop for days or struggle on the toilet, you got to really wonder about their diet – and realize they’re probably just eating American with all the colorful boxes and plastic wrappers that are toxic to burn. Especially when I find I have to poop in the morning and mid-day, though some of that has to do with the strong coffee at work. But it’s good to clear yourself out.
That said, I do think all that poop is kind of a waste. Humanure composting, done in a proper way to kill pathogens while recovering the unused nutrients in poop seems like just a sensible thing, just like you collect and compost food scraps. With all that fiber and unused nutrients going out the other end, it really makes sense to recover all that one’s body can’t consume especially when the inputs are so good with a high-fiber diet made up of whole foods.
Truth is I don’t know if I’m going anywheres this weekend, so it’s best to just restock my pantry with the basics on the bike ride home. Mostly just things like frozen vegetables, more onions, maybe some tofu and rice. Probably need the lights on my bike to ride the remaining way home, but they’re fully charged.
The forecast looks fairly cloudy tomorrow and potentially not gray and cool n Saturday, so I’ll just take it by ear. I’ll need more by the weekend but Hannaford is always just a bike ride away, or I can take my big jacked up truck to Wally World for a bigger shop.
That said, I sure would like to get Shauls one last time for the year and riding some of Catskill Scenic Trail for the remaining color, but not if it’s cold and gray all Saturday and Sunday. I probably have enough propane available for a night of camping if I do decide to do an overnight, and the three beers I have left in my fridge and weed in my truck will get me through a single nights adventures if I choose. If I go Saturday morning, then I’ll have time to find wood on site, and won’t have to deal with splitting pallets or picking up nails.
And, there is always that Veterans Day Weekend which is only two weeks away when I head most likely out to Madison County. I can’t believe November is just around the corner.
No more riding home from work. Turning that brass desk lamp on at four o’clock each day, watching as it gets dark outside from my office and coming home to my dark apartment. Cold, long evenings.
A lot of people don’t like after the leaves fall off the trees and the woods gets a palette of browns and grays. But I do as I like how so much more light filters down to the forest floor and the interesting shadows made by the hills and hollows with the low sun angle.
