I guess I should have only soaked half of the 4 lb bag of pinto beans rather then the full bag. It didn’t seem so big until the beans soaked over night. Little worried about having enough room as it’s a lot of beans to freeze but I guess I’ll just buy less frozen fruits and vegetables and maybe get freezer bags.

I really try to avoid disposable freezer bags, even if they are convient for camping, which is probably were I will eat a lot of pinto beans. Nice thing is the fire will recycle them into carbon dioxide to feed the trees. Some I will keep in the fridge for the next few days, maybe make up some rice to get a complete protein. Or otherwise fry them up with a bunch of dishes or mix them with maple syrup for a sweet and filling treat.

It’s a Saturday and raining again. I am thinking of shopping this morning, leaving shortly after showering. Though the beans won’t be ready, I can turn them off and they’ll continue to simmer and soak for a while and then resume the heat when I get back home. Probably go to Walmart but I might also stop at Rite-Aid for razors. They’re always locked up at Walmart and it’s a pain to find someone to unlock the cabinet. You got to wonder how much they loose in sales versus shop lifting. It’s not like disposable razors are that expensive. Hell of it is, probably most things like that aren’t stolen by Average Joe Shopper but instead disappear in bulk off loading docks and backroom stores. Or get broken and garabaged before they’re ever sold. But I’m sure corporate has decided it makes sense for corporate profits. 

Rain is supposed to clear out relatively early, and I’m considering hammock camping or maybe just riding this evening. Would be fun to have a fire up in wilderness, though certainly on Thursday – Juneteenth I’ll be doing that after a day floating on East Canada Creek.  But right now the morning ain’ t great but getting a relatively early start after I finish my pancakes and coffee should be good. Then I’ll come home, turn the stove back on, finish cooking the beans down, do some cleaning – my kitchen is gross there is maggots in the compost container – and then dig into more of The Complete Guide to Homesteading book I have on my phone. Tonight if I do an overnight in the wilderness, I’m planning to continue to listening to more of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods about this fat suburbanite who decides to do the Appalachian Trail. The book is both kind of hilarious and gross in the same kind of way, much like the suburbanite’s mind.

It was a good week but by end of week I was dog tired. I was thinking of going to the Pine Hollow Arboretum Tree Museum last night, but I was so exhausted by end of day I just crawled into bed after dinner. I did listen to a podcast or two, but I was out hard by 8 PM. All week I’ve been so tired, one of my employees was asking if I was feeling okay at work yesterday. My eyes have been irrated, I’ve been achy and just so tired. I know it’s probably Lyme disease and I should go to the doctor for that nasty old doxcyline but it’s not that bad. Dad is doing better after the doxcyline. I know there is some risk that if it becomes Anaplasmosis I could collapse, but I don’t have a fever and don’ t feel that sick to rush to doctor.   At least Dad has been feeling better after he got on doxcyline. So that’s good, I was concerned. I just remember how quickly the late John Wolcott went downhill after he got bit by a tick. I probably have Lyme probably from going through all of those brambles at Black Creek Marsh a few weeks back.

It’s good to see some my initiatives at work getting put to work, I have been aggressively expanding the number of data points about constituents to provide for better targeting of communications. Some of it is pushing the system harder then before and some of changes aren’t as easy to implement as I had hoped because of push back, but I think things are getting better.