Blue green algea, which I’m not surprised about as Cayuga Lake stunk when I was at Stewart Park on Monday. It’s been a warm summer and the warm lake cooks the nitrogen and phosphorous from the sewage treatment plants and farms. Seneca Lake is a lot deeper and cleaner but witness the discontinued beach in Geneva, that lake has its problems too.
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Cream Puff War – Grateful Dead
Alas the days of grass and grass puppies are coming to an end ðŪ
Lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it’s been. God bless the grass and the grass puppies! And shopping at Walmart stoned is truly a weird experience, and don’t answer your work line on your stoned day off when you are reading, thinking and floating, observing the clouds. And I really enjoy singing along with the Grateful Dead.
Listening to the Cream Puff War this morning as I take down camp. ðĶI was a bit disappointed by the peanut butter and chocolate soft ice cream I got at the Glen Dairy Bar yesterday. But then I’ve gotten hooked on sundaes plus my standards were very high after Cornell Dairy Bar and Spotted Duck Creamery. ðĶ
I was hoping to have camp taken down by ten, ð but the tent ðŠ is still fairly wet and I’m hoping the breeze will dry it out more before I take it down. The bucket shitter is emptied ð―, there was a lot of poop ðĐ to bury after ten days. ð It’s all the fiber I eat these days. As always on the last day of vacation ð it’s the most beautiful day in a while but already getting hot. ð°
Heading to Taughannock to walk around the falls ðķ then I’ll probably head down to the State Park beach and swim ð for a while. Then early afternoon head down to Cass Park for a paddle ðķ and then I’m thinking a brief swim at Robert Treman – Enfield Glen before heading home ðĄ around four. The idea is to be home by eight or so, figuring piss breaks and farm stands and asides. I think I’ll pass on visiting Cornell Dairy Bar for that pint of Greek yogurt ðŪ – wait for a future year – and pass on visiting a Ithaca dispensary – as time is tight, cash is low and I want to research strains more. ðŠī
Camping at the Finger Lakes National Forest on August 3rd 2024
Day 9. Cayuta Lake, Connecticut Hill WMA and then Watkins Glen later. Yesterday was spent at Cornell, the bird sanctuary, Botanic Gardens, Arboretum and of course the dairy bar! Rainy evening, finished off the clams and sweet corn. Things are muddy, coming to a close as today's the last full day in the Finger Lakes.
Bad thinking brought to you by the fossil fuel lobby â― â ðĨ
I was looking at the big tractors and brush hogs the DEC uses for mechanical removal of msintance of fields for wildlife. As if there wasn’t a more natural tool – fire. They really should consider more controlled burns of the land, low slow burns, grass fires in the open fields during the spring months.
For too long fire has been feared, in part due to uncontrolled wildfires that burn much too hot. Then many have expressed concern with air pollution, after all if you burn a field, especially when it’s damp, your going to end up with a lot of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide in the air. But this is a natural source, unlike the increadible amounts coming out tail pipes in the cities.
Grateful Dead – Box of Rain
Rolling away the dew ðĶ
Another muggy summer, damp cloudy day. Listening to the Grateful Dead, thinking about how good that White Wedding was in the rain with the remaining clams and sweet corn next to that smokey fire in the rain.
It’s gotten to that part of the trip ð when you have to decide what’s left to do. You have to choose as the hour is late and the afternoon thunderstorms and dusk will upon me before you know it. I’m hoping for good enough weather this evening to do one more ride after dark, ðē maybe watch the stars âĻ and have a fire, ðĨ that I can watch from the hammock.