The rain is coming. ☔

Very obvious from the radar. 🕸

Kind of an anti-climatic end to the summer vacation. But the weather has been better this week than many recent weeks. After the rain chases me from Taughannock today, I think I will head to Ithaca and out awful Route 79 to Whitney Point Reservior and if it’s not raining too hard there maybe stop for a while. 🎣

Then I think I will take NY 26 all the way up to Pine Woods and US 20, so to explore the Otselic Valley. 🚘 Been on parts of NY 26, but not most of it. Just a different way to go. I’m sure it’s just lot of fertile dairy country 🐮 and small towns but I’m in no rush to get home 🏡. I just want to be home before dark which might happen early with rain ☔ on its way. Rather take the back roads so if the weather is bad I can drive slowly or stop somewhere.

If I go that way I can stop at Mike Price’s dairy in Whitney Point and get sweet corn 🌽 at his farm stand. I’ve watched his MikeP7810 YouTube channel for years now, it’s kind of fascinating to watch him work at his family’s small tie stall dairy and crop operation. I’m sure his sweet corn is awesome and maybe I’ll even get to meet the celebrity. It’s just interesting to learn about how the land is worked in these many small towns in Upstate NY and the people who turn dirt and manure into food. 🐄

Then it’s back to the cesspool. 🏡 I wonder how much mold has grown in my apartment while I’ve been gone. Been cold and relatively dry, hopefully not that bad. Got to make that money 💵 though. 📱 Going to need to replace my very smashed up phone this week, I am hoping to get the same phone used and just swap over the SIM and SD card for a quick change over with a little hassle and cost. Sucks I shattered my phone screen but it was a good vacation. 🏖