Notes

Most commercial farm animals produce a lot of meat. And unless you produce a lot of vegatables for market, you’re not really a farmer or even a homesteader it seems. At least the message I get from the books I’m reading and culture I’m engaged in. A gardener yes, but you can’t live on vegatables alone as they say, as you need to get complete proteins to survive. All true.

It’s just amazing how much meat is on a single cow, a hog, or even something smaller like a sheep or goat. You really have to have a lot of storage space and ideally share it (for sale or otherwise) with many people to fully utilize so much meat.

I don’t have a real hard objection against meat; the claims of the animal rights activists fall hollow on me. Animals aren’t humans, and indeed I think we even give human life a bit too much sancity, when its’ not that difficult to have yoet another baby. Animal butcher takes skill, but it’s something one can learn with the right tools and a bit of practice.

The thing I don’t eat much meat. Meat is loaded with saturated fats, most of the less health Omega-3 variety that causes inflammation and ultimately early death. It gives a ;lot of flavor to food and is rich in complete proteins, but the idea of eating it daily gives me pause. Do I really want to have steak 5-nights a week, even if it’s my own steer I butchered?

I’ve read and listened a number of books on gardening. Gardening seems like something the elderly or the Amish would do, or some really hokey homesteader or pot-smoking hippie who is into eating organic wouldd do.

I don’t understand why the world has gotten so confusing while all I have is time to study the colors of wildflowers as pages fall violently off the calendar.

First thing is to fix the broke wires in my truck. 🔌 I’ll call the shop about getting the wheel bearing fixed on my truck and have them investigate other. I don’t know if it will get fixed this week but it’s fine I have my bike and I have things I need to get done before summer vacation. 🏖️

This this afternoon Mom and Dad are going to give me a ride out to their house, so I can spend it wish the neice and nephew. 🦀 We will play down in the creek and I figure I can do my wash while out there. It is a needed break. Sure I wish I had my truck and I was out in Schoharie but it’s kind of a cool day for swimming or floating. And the thing is there was a lot I needed done around the apartment before vacation.

Maybe I’ll head out on August 1st through the 10th, 🏊 though that second week is Race Week in Watkins Glen and I’ll have to reschedule my physical, or maybe I’ll do August 22nd through Labor Day for an even longer weekend when you tack Labor Day on it which is September 1st. Loose a lot of daylight by then. That  later option seems better, it would avoid the Watkins Glen Race Weekend 🏎️ and I get an extra day out of it though more traffic coming home. That might be a nice option though.

The whole this is kind of dumb, 🚚 I knew about the issuse since Memorial Day but I really couldn’t point to it and except when the bearing was cold, I didn’t really notice the slop and I just chocked it up to the shocks being old, rusty and everything is kind of loose on the truck. 🛠️ It will get fixed and I’ll be back o the road by I’m sure early August – it’s not a big fix – but you know how shops are these days.