Tonight I need to get propane, DEET, a waterproof pouch for my phone, and a few miscellenous groceries to have. Tomorrow I’ll get bacon on my way up to camp at For the Love of Bacon. It doesn’t look like Samdill have zucchini, summer squash or sweet corn yet, it’s just the start of July. Oh well, I’ll get something at the grocery store. The plan is to leve for camp around 6:30-7 AM tomorrow, and set up camp sometime between 9 AM and 10 AM, hopefully before the thunderstorm come rolling through. Not going to bring the kayak on this trip either. Need to topp off my tank too.
Been going through and making sure I have plenty of things to read and listen to up at camp this weekend. I have some good audio and paperbooks on Libby but I know that app can be a bit marginal up at camp, so I’m not planning on depending on that. I have several selections from Hoopla, including two E-Books that I made sure weren’t AI generated crap but real books, plus 3 that I ordered up a few weeks back and two audio books. Plus several hours of podcasts and videos and audio I downloaded. Want to have plenty of good things to listen and read up at camp, especially now that I have the hammock to lay back in and the long weekend doesn’t look to be ungodly hot.
Well only if you take off Thursday to get bacon before heading up to the Potholers, though Friday is Independence Day when youshoot heavy metals off into the skies to celebrate freedom and piss off the liberals.
I also hear that it’s No Plastic July. 🔥 Honestly, I can’t think of the last time I threw away a piece of plastic, it’s more the stuff you can’t burn that ends up getting recycled or going to landfill. That said, I don’t go out of my way to use plastic anymore like plastic forks and Styrofoam plates, some of that stuff stinks when you burn, and it’s a waste of money. Plus since getting into healthier eating, less and less of food I eat is packaged. More and more, the stuff I don’t eat gets dumped in my parents compost pile. If I only had land, chickens and hogs. 🐽 🐐 🐔 Honestly, I’m more concerned about the non-burnable supposedly durable goods that are such crap and require constant repair and discarding then some plastic that shrivels up and disappears in the flames. ♻️ You know I love fire, and I hate thinking about all that garbage in the growing mounds outside my office window. Honestly I’m not convinced cardboard is any better, especially when it’s all going to the landfill. 🗑️
July begets August and the end of summer. 🏖️ In literally 61 days, the Labor Day Weekend will be done and we will be into the meat of September. 🍖 I got really sit down and plan out which week I want to take off for summer vacation, probably the last week of July but I have to be careful in case that week turns out to be crap, as I don’t want to have off too late in August and have swimming pools and alike shut down for the year. 🏕️ Just the Finger Lakes this year. Nothing too fancy. Maybe before then a weekend trip out to Schoharie or possibly the Green Mountains. Come September I think I want to do the St. Regis Canoe Area. 🛶
But first I want to get into the office early, as I see I already have work piling up in my email box plus I am pretty sure I’m taking tomorrow off to head to the Adirondacks after getting bacon. I should actually look and see what other products Mariaville Farm has at For the Love of Bacon, but let’s be honest, bacon is so good. Never have bacon with eggs, as it’s a bit too much saturated fat for my tastes, but I do often have it with especially zucchuni fried in hog fat to where it is crisp and delicious. Maybe combine that with some wake and bake, and that’s fun time.
I need to get to the store and get propane and a few other supplies tonight. For example, more olive oil as not all things up at camp should be about hardening arteries. And some veggies. Won’t be long before farm stands have things like summer squash and zucchini but for now it’s what I can get at Walmart like spinach. I am not empty on propane but I don’t want to run out or have to stop ont he way up tomorrow. The idea is I will leave at like 6:30 AM tomorrow morning, get bacon around 7 AM then head north before 9 AM to hopefully get either House Pond Campsite or Number 5 on the hill not far from the Potholers. Thunderstorms expected tomorrow, but hopefully I’ll have camp set up before things start rumbling.
This has in many ways been a very confusing, disorienting year for all involved. Things are changing rapidly in America for better or worse as the Trumpster gets his second presidency underway. The markets have spun wildly in both directions, and nobody seems to know where the economy is going with a madman in charge, whether he’s doing a good job or if its just the momentum of the economy that his flailing around has failed to slow.
The S&P 500 as it closed out the second quarter is up 5 1/2 percent on the year, though broader indexes have shown less gain, as much of it is the Magnificent Seven that is continuing to power the economy. While 5 1/2 percent sounds great even on annualized basis, it’s not earth shattering though nobody knows how long it will be sustained. Tariffs are disaster in the making, as is the Trump tax plan with it’s decline in federal revenue, the rise of buy now – pay later, the declining profitability of private equity, and a general malaise seems to put so much of the economy at risk.
While I don’t get upset about the markets up and downs – I rarely check my portfolio but a few times of year – like the end of year to take stock of where things are, years like 2022 when the market ended down were kind of depressing way to close out the year. I don’t play or move money around in the market, but I do see that number as both a reflection of self-worth and the distance between now and the future, owning my own land, having that off-grid homestead. Really, I just stay the course, investing more every two weeks, but it can be hard to watch as the economy crashes down all around you.
and a few miscellenous groceries to have. Tomorrow I’ll get bacon on my way up to camp at For the Love of Bacon. 
It doesn’t look like Samdill have zucchini, summer squash or sweet corn yet, 
it’s just the start of July. Oh well, I’ll get something at the grocery store. The plan is to leve for camp around 6:30-7 AM tomorrow, 
and set up camp sometime between 9 AM and 10 AM, hopefully before the thunderstorm come rolling through. Not going to bring the kayak on this trip either. Need to topp off my tank too. 
and listen to up at camp this weekend. I have some good audio and paperbooks on Libby but I know that app can be a bit marginal up at camp, so I’m not planning on depending on that. I have several selections from Hoopla, including two E-Books that I made sure weren’t AI generated crap but real books, plus 3 that I ordered up a few weeks back and two audio books. Plus several hours of podcasts and videos and audio I downloaded. 
Want to have plenty of good things to listen and read up at camp, especially now that I have the hammock to lay back in and the long weekend doesn’t look to be ungodly hot.
as I see I already have work piling up in my email box 
plus I am pretty sure I’m taking tomorrow off to head to the Adirondacks 
after getting bacon. 
I should actually look and see what other products Mariaville Farm has at For the Love of Bacon, but let’s be honest, bacon is so good. Never have bacon with eggs, 
as it’s a bit too much saturated fat for my tastes, but I do often have it with especially zucchuni fried in hog fat to where it is crisp and delicious. 
Maybe combine that with some wake and bake, and that’s fun time. 
Won’t be long before farm stands have things like summer squash and zucchini but for now it’s what I can get at Walmart like spinach. 
Thunderstorms expected tomorrow, but hopefully I’ll have camp set up before things start rumbling. 
