Summer

Show Only ...
Maps - Photos - Videos

Beer, clams, sweet corn and breakfast sausage 🦪

|

Beer, clams, sweet corn and breakfast sausage 🦪

Kind of a real treat up here in the wilderness on a, hot summer day. Not sure I would want to eat at home – it’s kind of smelly but so delicious. The beer and clam juice just gets into the sausage and sweet corn is so good.

I do end up with a lot of smelly, organic garbage but at camp I have a hot fire and the clam shells and corn cobs burn up just fine. It’s kind of a mess but I keep camp clean and so far I haven’t had much of a problem with bears or wildlife. And I get a bit buzzed but I’m not planning on going anywhere I need to drive.

August

|

The final month of summer has arrived. It’s the warmest and most mature month, and meadows run their wildest. The nights are not as long as previous months, and while it’s often hot and humid in the day, the nights start to have little hints of a fall chill that’s certain to come next month.

August is the time of Altamont fair and many people’s vacations. It will be time of sitting out and soaking up the sun, of long days out in the canoe, and climbing mountains in the early morning. They’ll be nights sitting around the campfire drinking beer and whisky, watching flames as the burn towards the sky.

Swimming Hole

August can be a lazy month. The last of the summertime season, the last time we are laid back before our youth go to school, and before things get more serious at work as people’s vacations end. The heat makes some outdoor activities challenging, so we choose to lay back.

There will be plenty of warm days in September, but it won’t be as much summer as the month of August will be. It will be different. September will see many of the final harvests of the year, our society’s agricultural bounty, and the signs of fall. Much hope and sadness we enter that month.

I have off from the work the last week of July

|

I have off from the work the last week of July … 🏊‍♀️ ⛺ 🛶 🚶‍♀️

I am thinking I will probably head out to the Finger Lakes National Forest and do the normal circuit of state parks and other places I like to visit out in the Finger Lakes, a mixture of swimming, cooling off in gorges, sightseeing, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping on long summer nights. I might end up spending a few nights in Pennsylvania, but I’m not set on it, as I kind of like the simplicity of just setting up a good campsite and staying there all week.

Vacation means lazy afternoons

I am glad the heat is breaking

|

I am glad the heat is breaking …

It’s been a tough few days with the heat and no air conditioning. Things are back to normal in the sense that the library is mostly open normal hours but I’m still home more than in the past due to remote work. I need to mop up the floor and scrub up the mold spots that are popping up in my apartment from the constant wetness from the humidity. I was hoping this would be less of a problem when the landlord fixed the plumbing issues but no such luck.

But the way I look at it is I like my $50 a month electric bills and I figure I’m not only saving money I’m conserving resources. Being used to the heat is a good thing as the planet is only getting warmer as are summers locally and I don’t want to be forever imprisoned by the feeling of artificial cold.