It should be good with more sun in evening, even if next Monday the morning will be much darker. With the rain and warmer temperatures expected in coming week, it looks like the Rail Trail will likely mostly free of snow.
I am going to try to ride the rail trail in both ways today, going carefully and not riding too rough. It was pretty well packed down last night, maybe be a few rough sections but nothing too terrible. Then I can avoid both the US 9W and NY 32 merge in the morning and Second Avenue isn’t he evening. Full moon so if I’m running a bit late in the evening. I’ll leave early today. Made a big pan of eggs up with lots of veggies and pinto beans. I needed a change from cornmeal-onion, and banana-carrot pancakes. I haven’t broken out those overpriced grapefruit. Worried about the price of grapefruit while browsing the listings for F-350 trucks, lol.
It’s March and I should schedule a test drive of a SuperDuty or two and get the proposed out the door price. It’s a test drive and getting a number, not a 10 to 15-year long commitment at this point. Maybe I’ll see the truck up close, decide it’s too big and fuelish. I expect gas prices will surge up in the next couple of weeks, which I am sure will give me doubts about getting a 7.3l engine. Honestly, if it’s too expensive to drive, I can leave it parked at home and ride my bike. But I make good money now, and long weekend trips really aren’t that expensive, and it’s unlikely even a big SuperDuty is going to use that much more fuel then my old lifted Silverado did with the 35s. Will gas go up to $5 or $6 a gallon this year? Who knows, but it will suck for Trump. Play sad trombone for the President and his foolish war on Oran… I mean Iran. I do want to make up my mind and get a deal done this month.
I’ll just be glad once spring is here. 🌸 Even just loosing the snow and more daylight in the evenings will be nice, especially when I can ride out to Five Rivers 🐸 after work and read until I don’t know, 7:30 PM when it’s dark and I need to head home. And then I can get the truck, get the cap ordered, 🏕️ move over my camping gear and the solar panel. Wire up all the stuff, get a cellphone booster 📶 and get out to the wilderness both to travel and remote work.
Memories of my childhood as I put that $5 bag of what turned out to be 4 grapefruit in my shopping cart. An impulse purchase, but as I’ve grown older it’s a treat denied to elderly on statens, one that I used to think only gross old people eat, out of massive cardboard boxes of them bought once a year at feed store until they turned to moldy mush, to be hauled out and mixed with the chicken shit in the compost pile.
After visiting with the folks this afternoon, I rode down to Hannaford primarily to get milk and eggs, along with toothpaste and carrots. Really what I had to have was milk and eggs, and I thought about just riding out to Five Rivers this evening, past Meads cows and watching the sunset like last night, but it’s pretty bitterly cold out. So I just did a ride down to the store. I could have probably made it most of the week without additional toothpaste or carrots, but I go so much of the later with all the pancakes I’ve been cooking.
It’s nice to be out in the country, but I also like being in the city where I can ride my bike everywhere. I was watching this video about living in the hollow, and thinking again about walking away from that parcel next to my parents house, but that was a werid house and did not have a woodstove installed. And it had this werid in-holding, and was right on the road, and would have meant a 20 mile commute each way to work, so no SuperDuty for me. But don’t you want a house, not a truck you have to throw away in 10 to 15 years? Don’t you hate making your landlord rich? I’m doing fine myself, and I’m not so sold on having chickens and goats though maybe someday. Riding my bike to work much of the year provides quite a bit of joy in my life and simple things around town, though I still want a truck so I can travel this summer.
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going carefully and not riding too rough. It was pretty well packed down last night, maybe be a few rough sections but nothing too terrible. Then I can avoid both the US 9W and NY 32 merge in the morning and Second Avenue isn’t he evening. Full moon so if I’m running a bit late in the evening. I’ll leave early today. 
Made a big pan of eggs up with lots of veggies and pinto beans. I needed a change from cornmeal-onion, and banana-carrot pancakes. 
I haven’t broken out those overpriced grapefruit. 
Worried about the price of grapefruit while browsing the listings for F-350 trucks, lol. 
It’s a test drive and getting a number, not a 10 to 15-year long commitment at this point. Maybe I’ll see the truck up close, decide it’s too big and fuelish. 
I expect gas prices will surge up in the next couple of weeks, which I am sure will give me doubts about getting a 7.3l engine. 
Honestly, if it’s too expensive to drive, I can leave it parked at home and ride my bike. But I make good money now, and long weekend trips really aren’t that expensive, and it’s unlikely even a big SuperDuty is going to use that much more fuel then my old lifted Silverado did with the 35s. Will gas go up to $5 or $6 a gallon this year? Who knows, but it will suck for Trump. 
Play sad trombone for the President and his foolish war on Oran… I mean Iran. I do want to make up my mind and get a deal done this month.
