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A Christmas That I Won’t Be Remembering 🎄

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While last year I spent my Christmas at the State Horse Camp because my parents had a bad cold, I spent this Christmas in bed because I had a bad cold. Like literally, for 36 hours I slept from Christmas Eve through the 26th. I am feeling somewhat better this morning with the sore throat and dizziness gone, but I am still quite tired as I’m still very much recovering.

So it is Christmas. Or the day after, Boxing Day. 🔥 I guess you gotta burn all those Christmas boxes and wrapping paper out in the country, although a lot of people don’t have it off but I do as they didn’t give us Christmas Eve or New Years Eve off. I took off Monday and New Years Eve off so I’m off through next Wednesday, but right now it looks like rain come the weekend. Who knows though maybe tomorrow if I’m feeling better I’ll head out of town.

I had good plans but between the cold I have and cold outdoors, 🌨 it wasn’t going to happen. It’s actually surprisingly cold this morning — 10 degrees in Delmar. And some snow is coming down. Now if I felt better yesterday, I would have mostly certainly packed gear and head out this morning, but it wasn’t going to happen as I slept all day yesterday. I was thinking the next few days would be fairly sunny and warm, but so far it’s been mostly cold, cloudy and with snow. You know, like you would expect around winter-time.

Originally I was going to drive out on Christmas Day to the Finger Lakes National Forest, 🎄 or maybe Long Pond State Forest in Central NY. Then head up to the Brookfield Horse Camp for New Years Day. Figure do seven nights in then National Forest, or I would do 3 + 3 in different state forests so I wouldn’t need a permit. But I was looking at the rain expected for Sunday into Monday and that kind of changed my plans.

Still I am not feeling great. 🤒 No fever but I’m also not feeling good enough to leave home, though I do need more groceries and to head to the laundromat, as I had planned to previously do that at my parents house on Christmas and shop on my way out to Central New York. Maybe I should just stay home another day to be safe.

Driving into the office today 🛻

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With the snow and my change of plans for Christmas I had thought about riding in or even busing but traffic is going to be light today, my bike needs repairs and I just feel like driving in ain’t the end of the world especially as I plan to leave work early today.

Merry Christmas Eve. 🎅 Not raining like it did a few years back on Christmas Eve and things are quite white but whatever. There is a bit more work to wrap up today, it’s my last day in the office 🏢 for the year, I’m off the rest of the week through New Years Day. I’m still not fully sure what my plans are after Christmas but I do want to get away for at least three to six nights. 🏕️

There is more snow ☃️ in a lot of places I was thinking about and I’m not sure I want to drive all the way out to the Finger Lakes. I was thinking Long Pond then head north to the Horse Camp 🐴 around New Years Eve but I’m concerned there is too much snow at Long Pond plus there is limited firewood there 🪵 and it can be a bit of a dump. Might end up just doing the Horse Camp for three nights in the middle of the end of the week and coming home for NYE. 🎇 Kind of bored with the horse camp though. East Branch Scandaga and Newcomb was another option but probably too much snow at this point. I was thinking I could camp the second half of the week at the Vanderwhacker Creek along NY 28N. 🌲 But I would rather have cell service both for emergencies but mostly for entertainment. 📺

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